1. Using Body to Create Character
PF4 Alignment & Posture
Using Body to Create Character

2. 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

3. 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

4. What relationship might these characters have?
Alignment, cont.
What relationship might these characters have?

5. Posture Posture: how you stand, move, etc.
Reflects character identity
Reflects emotion
How might Cyrano stand? Roxane? Hamlet? Claudius?

6. What emotions can you see in these characters?
Posture, cont.
What emotions can you see in these characters?

7. 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.