Improv Psychological Gesture
Body & energyEmotion
Find one large, sweeping gesture that sums up the character's deepest want: to grab, to push away, to open, to close, to pull down. Repeat it physically, big, several times. Then play the scene letting it live INSIDE — invisible, but governing everything.
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Michael Chekhov's discovery: the body leads the psychology, not the other way round. One well-chosen secret gesture will hold a character for a whole scene without you having to think about it.
acting · chekhov · gesture · character · advanced
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