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Marie C Percy

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BFA Acting Freshman Introduced to Effort

September 25, 2015September 25, 2015Leave a comment

Today I had the pleasure of taking a fresh batch of BFA Freshman through an introductory exploration of the 4 Effort Factors. As you can see in the picture of my class notes, Effort is the category of movement analysis that analyzes the HOW of an action, the quality of the movement. Its an amazingly … Continue reading BFA Acting Freshman Introduced to Effort

I Love a Good Laban Pun

March 16, 2015March 16, 2015Leave a comment

Towards the end of a unit in the Freshman Movement for Actors class I came into the studio one morning to find these little jewels on the board. Apparently all the work studying BEAs, dimensions, diagonals, and basic shaping concepts as vocabulary to create physical variety while playing actions is sinking in. Not quite right … Continue reading I Love a Good Laban Pun

A-Scale Three Rings

February 3, 2015June 1, 2015Leave a comment

I painted this a couple of months ago. The design is based on the volutes of the A-scale. I drew three rectangles to represent the three planes in the Icosahedron (vertical, sagittal, and horizontal). I then marked where the corners were on my circle. The I gently sketched one volute at a time, and I … Continue reading A-Scale Three Rings

Function vs. Expression for Freshman

January 22, 2015Leave a comment

I played a fun little trick on my Freshman movement class this week. My first class of the Spring semester is on the theme of function/expression. I spend a lot of time in their first semester in the Expressive world- working on their imagination, ability to following impulses, and play. In the second semester I … Continue reading Function vs. Expression for Freshman

132 Icosahedral Pathways

April 25, 2014Leave a comment

Finally finished! A poster that summarizes all of the pathways in the Icosahedron by pathway type.

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