On the actor’s external technique again (dropout of the external technique)

There is one more aspect to the problem of purely physical exercises lying beyond exclusively movement-related issues. Movement teachers in drama schools occupy an ambiguous position: they seem to be called upon to deal with an actor’s body but they are also silently obliged to be responsible for developing students’ external technique, i.e. the whole section of acting. If they are responsible for the external technique, then they have to deliver the results. This is not a problem if a movement teacher has relevant theatre training and experience in acting or directing. After all it is not important to which department the teacher belongs.