1. What do you like about Viewpoints?
Viewpoints, when done right, involves non pre-planned actions, and is based on impulses. These impulses of each individual in a group can all form into a collaborative thought, and it's kind of beautiful when you think about it. Everyone thinking the same thought, or just the same story. It was pretty awesome when watching and the group would form this sort of scene, and you could find out what the story was by what they kept doing. It's just another version of storytelling—a very interesting one at that. It was also kind of exciting to be the group moving around because you start off doing your own thing, but then you observe what others are doing, and maybe form different actions because of that. It starts to become completely collaborative. All that shared energy and teamwork was the funnest part.
2. Were there any moments that felt particularly alive for you?
The moments that felt most alive were moments when the whole group was working together, not on purpose or because they had to, but just because it felt right to do that in the moment. Presence. When the whole group was honing their presence, or maybe just skimming the edge of it, everyone was working together and not caring what the output was.
3. Were there times when the activity felt dead and forced? If so why and when?
Whenever we had the activity of forming how ever many circles, lines, and clumps—it was dead. Even when I tried to focus on just the impulses, I would suddenly remember that we would have to form those shapes—also remembering the fact that we couldn't have over or under the number. Because we were assigned to pre-plan our impulses, it threw everyone off and everyone was too focused on finishing the task ahead. Whether we succeeded in forming the correct number of shapes, everyone's presence was going toward the assignment instead of the impulses.
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