Afraid Together features the voices of just a few of the 38 Chicagoans facing our fears this winter. A project started in 2009 by Saya Hillman of Mac ‘n Cheese Productions, the annual Fear Experiment takes “people who don’t know each other and who are ‘bad’ and scared to do something”—specifically improv or dance, Saya explains on her website. Then, they train with a teacher and perform onstage.
Eighteen of us have chosen to train for three months in the art of improv, playing games that get us comfortable with our bodies (in the silliest way possible) and with the rest of our group. Twenty of us are learning to dance, also getting comfortable with our bodies, but in a less silly way, and figuring out how to train our angular selves to do body rolls. At the end of the three months (April 28), we’ll perform at the Park West in front of an audience of 750 people.
This is our diary.
Afraid Together 
when you first chose to be in fear experiment and you found out you were going to be performing in front of 750 people and you didn’t know anybody were you so scared that you wanted to leave? I love your pic
Thanks! It was super-scary to find out we were going to be performing in front of that many people. But it was very easy to make friends with everybody–all of the FEers are so friendly!
do you like FE IE and DE.
I LOVE IE! It’s so fun (and a little scary) to be all silly in front of people I don’t know that well, but it’s also exciting.
hey why don’t you check out our blog sometime.the address is Marconi’s digital media club.
I can’t wait to read it! Thanks!
check out marconidigitalmediaclub.wordpress.com
I will definitely check it out–thanks, Dwajuan!