LABAN!!
Here's a good source:
https://www.theatrefolk.com/dta_courses/laban-advanced-characterization
http://www.movementhasmeaning.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/LMA-Workshop-Sheet.pdf
I realize it might be too late for your auditions but I find Laban work to be very accessible to my students and great for rehearsal.
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John Perry
Drama Instructor
Atherton High School
Louisville KY
Original Message:
Sent: 10-20-2016 09:01
From: Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Subject: Physicalizing text?
Does anyone have favorite exercises or activities for helping students physicalize a piece of text? We're doing auditions for the next week or two, and our production will contain a lot of physical storytelling. I'd like to do some activities in acting class to warm them up to this idea and get their creative juices flowing. We've done some Viewpoints and Greek styles work and created movement pieces to poetry. I'm considering mask work, which we have not done yet. We usually do some commedia in the second semester.
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Cassy Maxton-Whitacre
Theatre Department Coordinator
Fishersville VA
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