DETAILS:

FORMATION:

• Back and Forth Lanes

• Looping Tracks

LOGISTICS

• Players are in teams.

• Teams have their lane

PROCESS

Choose a variety of around 3-5 concrete unique walks for the relay.

Just as a relay race, each player races down back the lane using the chosen walks. 

Once a player goes down and back the lane in the chosen movement, they will tag the next player and that player has travel down and back in the pre-chosen next movement.

When a group has cycled through every player they win!

ADDED CHALLENGE: 

Require every player to do each movement down and back before winning. To keep all players active, have players pass the turn after they do one movement and once all players have done the movement then have the players cycle through the next movement and so forth.

CATEGORIES OF MOVEMENT FOR RELAY RACE:

• Animal Walks (penguin, crab, gallop etc.)

• Emotional Walks (excited, scared, angry, sad, confused etc.)

• Quick Change Costumes

(have a bunch of costume pieces or costumes at the far end that players need to change in and out of to pass along once they run the lane)

• Traveling Dance Moves (ex. grapevine)

• Limitations (ex. knocked knees)

APPLICATIONS:

• General Body Intelligence

• Energizing Warm Up

STEAL THE BACON CORE MECHANICS:

Chosen players race to be first to the one desired object (the bacon) / or place - sometimes return back to their safe space.

CONFLICT:

Wanting the same limited thing.

Team One: Get the object first.

Team Two: Get the object first.

{team}---->----(the bacon)----<----{team}

PROCESS:

At least two (2) teams on opposite end of the playing space.

Standing in a shoulder-to-shoulder line on a boundary line.

FORMATIONS:

• Circle (bacon object in center)

• Two (2) Facing Lines

• Smaller Teams

• P v P

• All v All.

WHO'S TURN IS IT TO PLAY?

• Players name called/picked.

• Set of people with a certain shared quality.

• Line of dialogue is said.

  • Who says it?

  • Who says the line after?

  • Who says the line before?

ALTERNATIVE APPLICATION:

Using Steal The Bacon To Quiz / Review:

A question is asked.

Answer if you get the bacon first.

SETS OF DIALOGUE:

• Given Line

Player w/ Before Line    vs     Player w/ After Line

1. Director says a line of dialogue.

2. Correct player who says the given line runs to the middle.

3. Players who have the line of dialogue before and after run to the appropriate space.

CLASSROOM SAFETY NOTE:

This game teaches the importance of Body control and the sportsmanship of being able to admit you were last to the object / or lost the round; however, student actors or people in general can get carried away in the excitement and collisions can and will happen as well as post-arrival-grabbing-tugging at the (bacon). If students can NOT handle playing with one object, use more than one bacon, even if it diminishes the inherent conflict. Or have ways to communicate a winner and manage/referee. I.e. - Flags, whistles, bells.

ABOVE NOTE SIMPLIFIED:

To avoid unnecessary physical collisions, you can set up each team to have their own goal object (the bacon) .

Endurance multi-sport race consisting of swimming, cycling, and running over various distances.

MULTIPLE GAMES for teams or individuals to review, practice, train in several theatrical disciplines.