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Observe how you hold the topic.
Do you grip it?
What do your fi ngers feel like?
Now, rise and walk across the room with the topic.
Observe how the feelings of anger inform how you carry the topic.
Is the topic held closely?
Do you throw the topic down?
Observe your walk.
How do you walk? Long strides or short? What is the tempo?
Observe your posture.
Is it tense? Slumped?
Record your impressions.
Feeling
Image
Sensations
Physical Gestures
Anger
Trying out other physicalities:
Try out other movements and gestures. As we discussed, there are many kinds of feelings
and each informs the body in a different way. Observe yourself in your daily life.
Observe your mood and how it is refl ected in your gestures at the checkout counter,
walking to class, or taking a test. By incorporating this exercise, you will learn to
inform the physical characters you create with the specifi c emotional reality of their
situation.
Try sitting at your desk and writing a letter to someone you are:
Jealous about
Mad at
Hurt by
Worried for
Try pacing in the doctor's offi ce waiting room and you are:
Bored
Interested
Frustrated
