Immediate response to auditory and visual stimuli.

STEPS 

1) The first step is to identify participants in the working group who are deaf or have a hearing impairment.

In this case, these participants will use the visual stimulus provided by the facilitator as a reference. The exercise is extremely simple and can be conducted in various ways.

Choose a song with two clear sound sections:

• vocals / lyrics
• instrumental without vocals

Hearing participants use the music as a stimulus: they move and dance freely to the section with vocals / lyrics and pause their movement during the instrumental section without vocals. Deaf or hearing-impaired participants use the visual cues from others as a response, creating a kind of wave.

2) Subsequently, they can be divided into two groups, where one group moves when there is music with vocals / lyrics, and the other group does the opposite, pausing when the instrumental section without vocals is played, and vice versa.

Tools necessary for the activity: comfortable space, audio device, music

NEXT STEPS 

In smaller groups of approximately 5 to 3 people, they decide how to creatively use this simple movement rule and interact with the space and other groups.