In my acting class today we were doing an exercise where everyone had to run and jump over a bench, land with stillness, without adjusting, and strike a pose. The trick was to be light on your feet and land like a Cat not an elephant, be grounded take a stand. To stop judging yourself, stop thinking, be okay with where you land, where you are...like in improv when you say "yes but" you are accepting what has happened or what has been given to you and you work with it and MAKE it work. We have also been discussing archetypes, and how it will be helpful to discover what kind of archetype YOU are. Well, it was my turn to run and jump and my first attempt my professor just laughed at my landing as I curved around and ran back to the start knowing I needed to do it again. She yelled "You need to ground your feet into the floor! You're Spineless! This exercise determines your archetype."
"Shit."- Me
"...Dana for example, watching how she floats around the hallways of this building like a butterfly, her archetype is a Lover, moving from one place to the next, but if the butterfly doesn't land we don't see it's colors!"-Christine
"Did you hear that you're a butterfly, you're always floating around haha."- Alfredo
"...I've gotten that a lot before. That I need to more planted and sure of my self. More grounded...it isn't good."- Me
"Even butterflies stop and land on a flower every once in a while."-Alfredo
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