ABSTRACT
Drama is a body-based art form, where the actor conveys ideas, relationships and emotion through their face, hands, movement and voice. Sculpting is one such technique involving the adoption of a physical position to show an action, feeling or relationship. Examples of sculpts would be: the physical act of pushing something, conveying through body language the feeling of anger, the relationship between a mother and her child. In its use of stopping and reflecting, the pace of work with sculpting is quite slow. Sculpting is an effective way of working with children and can hold particular appeal for autistic children because of the visual and non-verbal quality of what is created. The activities provided in this chapter begin with developing children's capacity for bodily, facial and vocal expression. They involve mime but the emphasis is on sculpting since, by giving children the opportunity to really look at physical expression, there is the greatest scope for reflection and learning.
