Improv, Mathematics, and Polyhedra
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I gave my three workshops this year. The results of one of them are shown above, Weaving Paper Polyhedra. These models, made my my participants, hold together without any glue, staples, tape or anything else other than the weave of the paper. Some more of these solids can be seen at my web site.
The workshop on Mathematics and Religion made its debut at this SUUSI, where I showed the participants how to fly to infinity and how to deal with conundrums such as the sentence "This sentence is false.", as well as the stories of two mathematicians who investigated these conundrums as well as find that there is no end to mathematics. Most participants had mathematical backgrounds, but it was interesting to have one with a religious background instead to provoke a debate at the end.
Go to the Sky page to find out about my Stories of the Sky workshop.
I also took a workshop Day at the Improv, in which we went through several drills and routines to get us to be able to spontaneously come up with humorous skits on stage. The one I liked best was when two improvers staged a sex-shop act, then two others were told to do that skit as a Western, and then two more as a science fiction story. Another one was when two people did a scene from a post office and two others did one on a shark attack simultaneously - but no one came up with the line "Hey, the shark is going postal!". We then performed on stage at Cabaret on Friday night, at the stroke of Midnight, when five of us made a human sculpture and the sixth of us described it as a Power Point slide from a scene at SUUSI itself, providing a self-referential ending to my SUUSI this year, the SUUSI that ended with a mini-SUUSI on stage.
I also went contra dancing - go to the Red page for that.