Sunday 7 October 2012

The Imitated Laugh (exercise 10)

This is a group exercise.
You must be at least two.


Sit in a circle (or in front of each other if you are two).

One of the participants must start laughing, a normal laughter or a crazy laughter, whichever he or she decides. Then the person next to this person shall imitate the laugh - while the other person still keeps laughing. After a little while, the next person in the circle must start imitating the same laugh. Keep doing this until all of you are laughing the same laughter. 
When you all are laughing, the one who started this laugh must stop laughing and be quiet. Then the next person must stop laughing too, until all of you again are quiet.
Now it’s time for the person next to the one who started laughing before, to start a new laugh, which you all must imitate.
Keep doing this exercise until everyone in the group has started a laugh.

It is okay to not be able to stop laughing again, but even if in a fit of laughter, try to focus on the exercise and make the correct imitated laughter.


Suggestions to how this exercise also can be done:
- See who can come up with the funniest laugh.
- Try to see how quickly you all can laugh the same laughter.
- Instead of waiting until everyone has imitated the laugh and become silent, then start a new laugh as soon as the person next to you have imitated the laugh you imitated from the person before you. This exercise stops when the first person who started laughing hears the last person in the circle laughing a different laughter.


Here’s what the last suggestion in a laughter circle could look like with a group of four.

Person 1: ha ha (person keeps laughing ha ha)
Person 2: ha ha, hee hee (person imitates ha ha, then laughs hee hee and keeps laughing hee hee)
Person 3: hee hee, ho ho (person imitates hee hee, then laughs ho ho and keeps laughing ho ho)
Person 4: ho ho, hir hir (person imitates ho ho, then laughs hir hir and stops when person 1 stops laughing)
Person 1: stops laughing when he/she hears person 4 laugh a different laughter than ha ha


Work with this exercise whenever you have a chance to have a group gathered.


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