Physical gestures help create an atmosphere. Physical gestures inform and support your phycological decisions. Physicalising the inner.
The phycological gestures creates an objective in the scene. Taking physical action and making it phycological can create a shift in your body helping you make new connections and realisations about your character in the scene, relationships with others, thought patterns and so on. Allowing your physical body to take lead instead of always allowing your mind to create opens up new possibilities for your character as you are feeding more of your gut and natural instinct.
Checkov believes that the head restricts you from creating work. He believes that what you create doesn't have to make "logical sense" its about being imaginative and creative. Being free to explore rather than be restricted to what your mind tells you is right or wrong or what your mind tells you is socially acceptable.
One exercises we did was taking a movement and blending it with an objective to see what that creates. One movement was raising out right hand in the air and putting it back down. We then added an objective to that movement like, to accuse, to help, to ask etc and that changed the quality of movement. In fact when i was to raising my hand with the objective to accuse i felt a character emerging from just that movement. I began to picture what this person looks like and the reasons they were accusing someone else. I found that incredibly interesting that i didn't need to use my head and think about a character, their appearance, their attitude i just needed a movement and an objective to create something new and unplanned.
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