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Why movement on stage is hard, and how to tie emotion to words so every move means something. Scenes from the Masterclass scene study.
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Description
Why is movement in a scene so hard? For a start, you never want to repeat a move, and every move has to come out of the moment instead of being planned. These sessions from the Masterclass scene study show how much difference movement makes, and how to make it easier and more honest in your own scenes.
Physicality and blocking
Actors freeze on stage because they’re thinking about the dialogue, and the gestures that do come out have no reason behind them. Here’s the idea the course is built on: movement is a line of dialogue. Try it with one sentence, “I told him to call me yesterday.” There is a world of possible movement for that line, for each word of it if you want. Start where the Living Inside the Scene course starts, with the script broken down, and ask: how does this person move? What does their body do that gives them more life?
Stay in motion
When you feel like you have nowhere to go, the body locks. So stay loose and stay moving. If the impulse is to go, go. If you want the chair, take it. Then comes the harder work: you now have to ground the move in the words and mean it, and think about why you moved and what it did to the person across from you.
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