A girl kneels with her head in her hands; a boy stares vacantly ahead. The young people, who were acting out visions of what fear might look like, were attending a workshop at the launch of the British Council's Connecting Futures programme in Amsterdam.
The initiative aims to build understanding, learning and respect between young people from different countries and different cultural backgrounds.
During the weekend, 30 young people from the UK and the Netherlands explored what the words "citizenship and identity" meant to them. A drama workshop, for example, asked pairs of young people to move each other into a pose representing fear. All the resulting poses were closed in on themselves.
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