My staying in Denmark as an Erasmus student: We'll rock you - samba

On the 18th and on 24th of March we had lessons in Aabenraa. We studied Drama and movement by the guidance of Linda&Flemming.

We didn't know each other - I mean the teachers us -, so we sarted with icebreaker games:

sitting in circle and tell our names
sitting in circle and tell the name of the person, who sit next to us
playing the rythm of the lyric of 'We'll rock you...' and repeat the names
playing 'shark game': somebody stand in the middle of the circle, who is the shark. The 'shark' is pointing to somebody and that person has to look somebody. This person can save the first one life, if he/she fast enough to say the first person name, otherwise he/she could catch by the shark. And then he/she becomes a shark, and everything starts again...

It was really impressive for me, when we were diveded to two groups, both of the groups got a piece of paper with a word on it. Our group had the word: zooropa. We had to

create a 'statue' , which is connect somehow to the word. We thought zooropa is the combination of zoo and Europe. So we tried to find animals which could symbolise our country. So Lilla&me were a horse together, because this animal belongs to the Hungarian history so many ways.

We had another exciting game: we had to stand in circle and play as if we carried a very heavy thing and we had to pass it to to next person. We also did it in another way, when we had to give a really light thing for the other person. The interesting was that each persons imagined different things, for instance: feather, spider, something breakable...etc.

Then the best part of the day was when we created a samba music

together! First we were diveded to groups and learnt our rythm to play at different sort of instruments and after that we just joined together!

(Unfortunately I don't know the origin of this lyric. I really like it, because once in my life I heard an amateurish orchestra, who played this lyric and that was amazing!)

We also learnt a rythm game with colourful cups and some songs as well.

On the other lesson we repeated some songs what we already learnt before and the rythm game

as well.
Then we learnt a Danish dance, it was really funny - I think -, and during our dance Linda playing a piece of music at accordion and she sung as well.

After dancing everyone got a mask; there were different kind of objects on the floor and we had to pick up one. Then we had to improvise as if we would born just now. The starting position was the 'embrio-pose'. Flemming put on a piece of music and we had to be 'born', discover ourselves and each other by movements.
It was really exciting, because we couldn't use our mimicries, our face and we had to express ourselves with our body and with the objects. I felt myself as if I would be in another world.

Then we were divided to two groups and we had to rehearse

a playwith the same piece of music. We could choose the theme, so

we decided to play a classical drama - 'Romeo and Julia'. It was funny to dress up as 'spacecowboys' and wear masks as well. The accessories were also comic; for instance dusting stick, glass-cleaner stick - both of them as swords - , polystyrene head...etc.
(Poor Shakespeare... : ))
We just rived the most important scenes off the play, but we still managed to create a whole in a quite modern way.

Both of the groups had to present the plays and after that we discussed our experiences, which

were quite different: some of us found it hard to not use our face, express ourselves without mimicry. For myself it was easier,

because I'm not that 'playing type', so I could 'hide' behind the mask and I could concentrate to the task, without felt myself unconfortable.
Flemming said, when we wear a mask it is like 'switch the monitor off' and just concentrate what is inside...

All in all I really enjoyed both of the lessons. It was also nice to