The Physical Actor

Whenever I was in shows in high school, we usually had a warm-up before we went on stage. We would do tongue twisters and sometimes we did jumping jacks. But our warm-ups were never as thorough or complete as what we did in class yesterday, and I wish they had been. I felt so relaxed and refreshed after doing simple things like rolling my shoulders and bending down to touch my toes. I was more awake (which is good because I came to class half asleep) and loosened up. And when we were doing the exercise where we started out as babies on the floor and then we slowly "learned" to walk, I couldn't help but think of the exercise we did in lab on friday. I kept thinking about how silly I felt crawling around on the ground pretending I was an infant, but when I looked around the room, everyone else was doing the same thing. I didn't feel as ridiculous when I remembered that all the other students were following the same instructions I was. It was also cool to try and figure out the way a baby moves. Stumbling around, pretending like I didn't know how to walk was actually difficult. Putting one foot in front of the other has become so second-nature to me, that it was challenging to act like I couldn't do it.