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Elements of Performance
Quick questions on Physicality and movement explained: H2 Theatre Studies and Drama
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What is the body as an expressive instrument?Show answer
Long before a line is heard, the audience reads the actor's body: how they stand, move and hold themselves. Physicality is therefore a primary, not secondary, channel of meaning. As with the voice, the skill is to treat the body as a controllable instrument and to make each physical element a deliberate choice that serves the character and the moment.
What are gesture that merely mirrors the words?Show answer
The richest physical choices can contradict or complicate speech (physical subtext), not just echo it.
What is vague description?Show answer
Name the specific posture, gait, gesture or spatial choice and its effect, rather than saying a character moves "nervously" without detail.
What is q1?Show answer
Explain how posture and gait can establish a character's status. [3 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Define proxemics and give one example of how it conveys meaning. [3 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Why is stillness considered an active physical choice? [4 marks]
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