Gesture Essay:
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Essay portion:
Part 1. Describe your relationship to gesture. Spend some time throughout a day to bring awareness to your own
Part 1. Describe your relationship to gesture. Spend some time throughout a day to bring awareness to your own
gestures when you speak, think about the gestures you make when you are happy or sad, angry or frustrated. Ask
those closest to you the gestures they associate with you and your personality. This not on consists of had
gestures, but of posture, body language, the way you sit or stand, facial expressions, and anything else you
communicate through the body non-verbally.
Part 2. Focus on a particular gesture (this will also be subject of your presentation). Explain which gesture you
will focus on, and why. When you present it, you will need to bring the gesture an emotional affect. You can
choose whatever tone you like. The gesture must be related to something you embody in your actual life, bit in
terms of how you embody it emotionally, you can demonstrate it the way you use it in real life, or you can change
it drastically. For example, you can choose a gesture you make when you are angry. You can perform that with a
different emotion, such as sadness or happiness, or you can perform it in just the way that you typically express
it. In the written part, I’d like you to discuss your history with this movement, why you’ve chosen to embody it
in this way. You also need to describe the gesture in specific detail. Do you like this particular gesture? Does
it make you self-conscious? Are you aware of it, or is it something that was called to your attention? 5 pages
total.
Presentation portion: on video, I’d like you to express this gesture. describe it briefly before you demonstrate
it, explaining how you usually use this gesture and what it signifies for you. Then I would like you to
demonstrate the gesture. Make this available to me however you would like, youtube, etc, or a video file, I just
need to get access to it.