Chapter+4

**Technique:** style of performance

 * ====Develop vocal and bodily technique by practicing====

**Eye Placement**

 * ====Dialogue- look at the person you are talking to====
 * ====Narrative- look directly at the audience====
 * ====Description- look above the audience's heads at the image====

**Sense Imagery**

 * 1) ====Visual (sight)====
 * 2) ====Auditory (hearing)====
 * 3) ====Gustatory (taste)====
 * 4) ====Olfactory (smell)====
 * 5) ====Tactile (touch- a sensation of physical contact, pressure, or texture)====
 * 6) ====Thermal (hot/cold)====
 * 7) ====Kinetic (large actions of the muscles)====
 * 8) ====Kinesthetic (muscle tension and relaxation)====

**1. Posture**

 * ====Good posture is the arrangement of the bones and muscles so that each unit does its job of supporting and controlling the bodily structure without unnecessary tension or strain====

**2. Gesture:** any movement that helps express or emphasize an idea or emotional response

 * ====Mimetic Gesture: a gesture that doesn't tell us anything more than words tell us====
 * ====Autistic Gesture: personal mannerisms such as swaying, tilting your head, raising and lowering one hand, etc.====
 * ====A common problem is when a performer's gestures or bodily habits override a character's habits====

**3. Muscle Tone:** the degree of tension or relaxation present in the entire body

 * ====Muscle tone occurs as a result of====
 * ====Muscle memory====
 * ====Complete response to the material====
 * ====The interpreter's concentration on sharing that material with the audience====

**4. Empathy**

 * ====Results from the ability and willingness to project yourself intellectually and emotionally into a piece of literature====
 * ====Enables you to embody the mental and emotional states of the speaker and characters in the selection====
 * ====The interaction of these emotional and physical responses is the basis of empathy====
 * ====Steps in empathy====
 * ====Your own response to the stimulus provided by the literature====
 * ====The audience's response to the interpreter's material====
 * ====The audience sends back an empathic response through its concentration and its alternating tension and relaxation====