... friends, but was scared of being alone. I chose to be this character because I thought I could relate to her and was able to express her emotions, as I was of a similar age and same gender. I attempted to remember particular emotions I had felt when first going away without my family. I then used these feels and emotions and incorporated them into our piece. We started an improvisation, rehearsed over it and then selected the bits that worked and rejected the pieces that didn't. We chose to perform our piece in silence, we didn't want to use dialogue but rather focus on our body language, our proxemics, our relationship to other characters on stage and expression. Relationship is a key word we also use in dance; it means how each character acts with the others on stage, is they work alone or together and how they do ...

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