Body as Tool

The Body as ToolTheatre Anywhere Your student guide to mastering Theatre while learning at homeThis unit will give you a break from a virtual classroom and get you moving and actively using all of you to feel embodied, awake, and ready to learn while teaching you how to use your body effectively on the stage. How? The body is the performer's tool and the fundamental aspects of using our body effectively on stage is to understand what messages are being sent to us, what messages we create in our body, how we convey those messages to an audience, and then incorporating the acting space to relay that message to the audience. You will engage all of your senses and practice ...Listening and receiving information, Listening to your body messages, Moving your body through space in new and different ways, Understand body language, and Use space effectively as a performer.By the end of this unit, you should be aware of your physical body and the variety of ways you can move while responding to other people, locations, and stimuli which establishes the basic skills of a performer to use their body as a tool on stage.