exercise · all tools
Swedish Sculptors
Also known as: Hitta sin staty
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharednone
Half the group are clay with their eyes closed; the other half sculpt them into one connected sculpture, moving them not by pushing but by holding an open hand against a body part and drawing it, so the clay follows the hand. Then the sculptors become clay and rebuild the same shape from memory.
Hold with care
- One half of the group physically arranges the other half, who cannot see it happening — this needs explicit consent about where people may be touched, which the source does not mention
- The finished sculpture requires everyone to be touching someone else
- The pull-don't-push instruction is the safety rule as much as the aesthetic one
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- somatic-awareness, feedback-mirroring
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- improvencyclopedia.org/games/Swedish_Sculptors.html — Improv Encyclopedia, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Unattributed; compiled by Improv Encyclopedia — Improvisational theatre
In this directory via Improv Encyclopedia · Dramaövningar.se
Related: The Magnet (alternative-to)
status: checked · added 2026-08-31