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Using Body to Create Character
PF4 Alignment & Posture Using Body to Create Character
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Alignment Alignment: position on the stage
In relation to other characters In relation to the audience Most important: STAY OPEN so that the audience may see your face
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Alignment, cont. Character relationship, motivating force, and beats contribute to alignment in relation to characters. Consider: Cyrano and Roxane pre-talk? Post-talk? Cyrano and Montfleury Cyrano and Le Bret
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What relationship might these characters have?
Alignment, cont. What relationship might these characters have?
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Posture Posture: how you stand, move, etc.
Reflects character identity Reflects emotion How might Cyrano stand? Roxane? Hamlet? Claudius?
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What emotions can you see in these characters?
Posture, cont. What emotions can you see in these characters?
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Formative Assessment Choose one line and create a tableau vivant (living painting) by figuring out where and how characters would have been standing/moving and freezing in place. Record your reasoning as to alignment and posture. Prepare and present poses.
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