Personal Narrative: Moving My Body

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I am never really aware of how I move my body unless I am acting. As I type this, I am not aware of how I position myself or how my fingers are moving across eh keyboard. I simply am moving them as I always had. With Stanislavski’s system, this is different. I cannot force myself to act in a certain way to make my character more believable (as I do not force myself to act in a certain way outside of the stage), but I do have to move with a purpose. I can shift my body in a way that gives off the mood of being uncomfortable, or I can do the same action with the intent of coming off as intrigue: an unconscious thing in my day-to-day life. I had never done what Stanislavski had done in which he would analyze the play prior to rehearsals. Typically,

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