ABSTRACT
The second chapter draws on the relationship between image-making and movement, using the human body to convey meaning. Emphasis is placed on portraying the body as subject, rather than object. Students take turns improvising and drawing a range of scenes, beginning with small actions and concluding with developed sequential narratives. They explore ways to capture movement on paper and translate personal experiences into pictures. Exercises include ‘weighted walks’, ‘statue and sculptor’, ‘first encounters’, rotational drawing and drama tasks, creating comic strips through observational drawings, and mask work.
This chapter looks at ideas of embodiment in drama and anthropology and applies them to drawing processes. Different theatrical approaches are used as theoretical framework for the exercises, beginning with phenomenology and mirroring in the context of the rehearsal studio.
