Add some more tools to your acting tool kit. Rudolph Laban analyzed movement and broke it down for us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-B_E3loAto
I found this summary on another blog called "Acting without the Drama":
Laban breaks down the way we move using three different areas of analysis: space, weight and time. Space can be either direct or indirect. Weight can be strong or light. Time can be sudden or sustained. When you put these all together, you end up with eight efforts that classify styles of movement, as well as something of the personality of the person making that movement.
Direct, strong, sudden--------punch (thrust)Indirect, strong, sudden------slashDirect, strong, sustained-----pushIndirect, strong, sustained---wringDirect, light, sudden----------dabIndirect, light, sudden--------flickDirect, light, sustained-------glideIndirect, light, sustained-----float
Another good movement video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBJkOBOlcf8
I really do find this fascinating and almost like an acting weight has been lifted! To have to emotionally put yourself into things (in a running show that means doing it over and over) can become so exhausting that one could dread the feelings they have to produce.
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