Effective Communication

Effective communication is an important means of producing creativity and challenging student’s perceptions about themselves. It explores emotions, thoughts, and imagination and how these elements can be expressed through theories. The main elements linked to various theories include the voice, body and group work /composition. This essay will explore numerous theories linked to voice, body and composition and connect them to examples of performances viewed within class and a professional production.

The effortless notion of planning and creating an emotional feeling to a movement and deciding where that movement is intended to go through space, before actually moving in it, has been acknowledged in a particular student's monologue. With the intention of representing a specific emotion or motion through movement, the student had to consider their spatial intent. A common example of spatial intent is when implementing an action with a heavy intention for instance stomping your feet. Thoughts of a heavy mass or emotion will therefore allow the stomping to be perceived as a heavy, weighed movement (Laban 1988, p. 67). An example of this from the student’s piece is when they used Laban’s movement theory of space (1988, p.67) as they curled up into a small ball conveying a shy and scared character, who was trying to decrease their kinesphere and trying to detract from attention. The student is therefore minimising their use of space by doing this. The image created by doing this was very effective as it showed that the character had a timid personality and was scared. By using the space theory and taking up little space this emphasised on the characters emotions and feelings, and made it easier for the viewer to comprehend their emotions.

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