There is an exercise that is mostly used as an Ice Breaker, where two strangers sit in front of each other, describe each other precisely and then fantasize about each others life.  Within the last week that the Indian collegues have come to Mannheim, this exercise has started to take up more and more workshop time and crept into leisure time, we find doing it in the tram and sometimes even missing the station. We have spent a week of getting to know each other, which happend while wokshopping, walking, changing hotels, dragging extremely big suitcases with saris all over the place, watching plays and swimming. Language does play a huge role – in the workshop and in the rest of our time. The actors Shrunga and Pallavi say “Danke” and “Leitungswasser” and in the workshop we listen to the actors speak in Kannada, Russian, Spanish, Swiss German, French, Kannadised English, Russian sign language and creative Bharat Natyamised Pantomime – as of today I know what jogging looks like in Bharat Natyam (a classical Indian dance form).
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