Laban Actions

Laban Effort Actions 

In lesson we explored Laban actions as an exercise to help with our individual character development. I decided that I wanted to go through every movement to help understand my character as opposed to picking out the movements that I thought would suit my character, as I felt that I could find something I did not expect to find with my characters movements. I started with just exploring exploring the movements at first, not as my character, just as myself,  so I could feel the different movements and just try and move around with them. This helped me personally understand the movements a bit better and the sorts of characters that they may represent, helping me get a better vision of the types of movements my character would inhabit. The next thing I did was try to move through all the actions but in the manner of my character. This gave me a better scope of the sort of physicality I wanted my character to portray. From this I managed to come to the conclusion that my character was more of a Slash/Punch type of person, This isn't a definite decision I have made regarding my character as this could change through the process, but it is what I have decided to go for at the moment . Next we had to try and apply the Laban Actions to our voices in the same way we applied them to our physicality, I found this hard as I couldn't quite get the slash in the voice action that I had decided to use for my character. I feel that that is the area I need to work on most as my character as that is the area I struggled with most when applying the Laban technique.