ABSTRACT

The principle of segmentation marked a change of direction in Geronimo training. He set himself the rule to move only one part or his body at a time: the eyes, the head, the arms and the torso, keeping the rest of the body completely immobile. Geronimo decided that even the eyes were an articulation. He called this principle 'segmentation'. A principle is a frame of Geronimo's rules that limits freedom and forces him to work in depth, and then the principle of segmentation is the smallest frame within which he has trained. The principle of segmentation is not, by itself, an absolute guarantee that leads you to achieve a specific quality of presence. The mental landscape that encompassed the work on segmentation changed from that moment onwards. After years of working with the principle of segmentation, Geronimo found that he could use it to create a kind of theatrical 'close-up'.