This entire term focuses on the Neutral Mask, a completely non-verbal masked movement form, through which students search for a neutral base, both physically and psychologically, a place of complete presence in the present. The mask allows them to uncover all that is emotional in the body; the baggage carried from role to role, and provides techniques to free them from these limitations. Identifications with other forms of energy, the four elements, seasons, materials, colors and plant life give students new insights into the process of character development. The Neutral Mask work is immediately reinforced with applications to their scene work in Acting class.
