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112 THE PRINCIPLES OF MOVEMENT

You can change the audience perspective by moving it from one

wall to another. With each shift explore different positions within

the space-upstage, downstage, centre stage etc and feel what it's

like to be in each position relative to the audience.

Also explore what part of you is revealed to the audience,

different angles-front on, profiki, back to the audience etc. Always

keeping in mind your relationship to others in the space, and how

you balance or complement the arrangement of bodies 'on stage'.

JULIA COTTON

Levels

A study of space must include consideration of level-that is, how the

heights and elevations vary of the people and objects that occupy the

performing area. It is a powerful aesthetic and design element, giving

dimension and variety to the stage picture. It is valuable in adding

steppingstone - a choreographed work based on Keith's life by Anca Frankenhaeuser. L to r Wendy Strehlow, Sonia Todd, Patrick Harding-lrmer, NIDA 2005.