This unit examines how movement and acting relate and how each student can improve the quality, grace and expressiveness of their physical work as an actor. Students learn to better understand how they move and improve their balance, breath and alignment as well as safely and theatrically creating dynamic and expressive movement. Students are expected to observe, embody and transform into character – both the human form and a detailed animal study. The unit calls for a creative release that is non verbal and physically eloquent. The classes are playful, inventive and varied. Classes in acrobatics, martial arts and dance and the Feldenkrais Method are included alongside theatrical movement. These classes will refine the students’ perception of movement and lay the groundwork for the deeper study of the embodied actor.