Releasing Down and Swinging Up: Exploring External Expression through Internal Fall
Journal: YorkSpace (York University)
Year: 2017

The goal of my thesis was to investigate how to externalize onstage my inner experience with authenticity and integrity. Using the challenge of playing the role of Irina in Anton Chekhovs Three Sisters, a version of the play where she is Deaf, I investigated how to externally communicate an internal experience through the use of the fall. This paper begins with in-studio research of my personal artistic challenge of releasing in order to externalize. It documents my summer work on physicality an