STRUCTURE OF PERFORMANCE:

1)   Percussion and other music can start as people are getting into place—to draw a crowd (the percussion can include as many musical instruments as you can gather, but at a minimum should have one person dedicated to keeping clapping going.)

2)   Ideally set up in a formation of  either a rectangular or semi-circle grouping of performers(more confident participants in front and others spreading behind as far as needed.)

3)   Performers enter the performance space clapping.

4)   Chorus w/chants:

5)   Call and Response Chant (done 2 times)

Leader: “Proposition 30?”   

Group: “Yes! Yes!”    (raising an arm with each “Yes!” into a big Y shape)

Leader: “Prop. 32?”

Group: “No! No!”   (wagging finger)

·      Leader calls (5! 6! 7!  8!)

·      Both arms reach up along sides (4 counts)

·      Both arms return by your side (4 counts)

·      Reach right (2 counts)

·      reach left (2 counts)

·      Reach/Go up towards sky (2 counts)

·      reach/go down towards ground (2 counts)

·      Turn around to the left (8 counts)

·      Hitting and holding shapes (8 counts—counts 1, 3, 5, 7 are for everyone to hit and hold any shapes that you want for 2 counts, then on the “1” everyone goes down as low as possible to hold a shape with attention focused on center of space)

6)    “Education is…” Dance/Theater piece accompanied by quieter percussion in featured performance space (64 counts)

7)   Chants & Chorus

8)   “Education is…”

9)   Chants & Chorus

10)         “Education is…”

11)         repeat as many times as you have “Education is”  pieces prepared to fill the slots

12)          After last “Education is…” piece do Chorus 2 times and then…

13)          Repeat Chanting (4x)

14)         Exit clapping.

Eric Kupers will lead the actual flash mob and call out sections as they come up, so you don’t have to remember all this.