This week, my classmates and I have been working on creating a short piece based off of Commedia Dell Arte theatre. Our goal is to learn how to use our bodies to express character without relying dialogue to explain your characters thinking. This is an aspect of theatre that I've always wanted to practice because I mostly rely on facial expressions to explain the thinking of my character, but because most characters in Commedia Dell Arte pieces use masks, it forces the actor to use their body instead. I have practiced expressing emotion with my body before when I did Peter Pan. The theatre company that I was performing with had multiple casts and in one of the casts, I played Peter Pan's shadow. Due to the fact that my costume was a black full body suit, no one could see my face so I had to rely on my body language to express emotions and over exaggerate motions to make those emotions more obvious to the audience. Because this character was so unique to what I had done previously, it was probably one of my favorite characters just because I thought there was room for experimentation and performing in a way I haven't done before. Due to this excitement I had in the past, performing using my body again makes me much happier and thrilled to perform my groups piece. I also find this exercise more fun and easier than the work we had to do with the monologue because I usually prefer being a side character that has goofy moments in a show, but performing in the spotlight as well as being the only performer is extremely hard and stressful for me. I much prefer performing with others for that reason, but I also think it makes for a more entertaining presentation.
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