Get the group to form a line, semi-circle or circle. They should focus on you, the conductor, as you are going to be leading them through the ‘song’. Start with a barely audible whisper and encourage the choir to copy you. Try to get into an early rhythm, if possible.
Turn the whisper into a series of varying mouth sounds, like tongue clicking, cheek shaking, ba ba bas, cha cha chas and me me mes, before smoothly introducing words like:
- Fleas and biscuits, fleas and biscuits
- Tins of gravy, tins of gravy
- Waldorf salad, Waldorf salad
- Coffee’s too cold, coffee’s too cold
- Demerara sugar, demerara sugar
- Oh what a load of vegetables, oh what a load of vegetables
- Gobbledygook, gobbledygook
- Rappa rappa rippa roppa rum pum push, rappa rappa rippa roppa rum pum push
When you’ve reached this point, you may want to reverse the process and end up with faint whispers before ending the ‘song’.
Joost Krijnen lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He studied at the St. Joost Akademie in Breda, after which he was admitted to the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. He won both the Scheffer award as well as the Royal Dutch Prize for Painting in 2015. Recent exhibitions include Riparian Figuration, Kate, Amsterdam in 2023, KABINETT, m.simons, Amsterdam 2023 and Art Rotterdam with m.simons in 2024.
Artwork:
Nosferaamtoe, 2024
colored pencil on paper
32 x 24 cm
– The text was taken from 10 Best Warm-Up Exercises and Games for Clowns by Andrew Spacey. on hobbylark.com. accessed Thursday March 14, 2024.
