Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Physicality, awareness of space

1. What inhibitions do you still have in using your body to express yourself? What are the strategies you can use to overcome this?

For me, I would have to say that my stubborn reluctance to totally ‘let loose’ and freely express myself physically would be my obstacle.

While it might have been easy to sit down and think ‘Hmm, yes I am going to do this and that’ and come up with a whole, exciting sequence of movements in my mind, once it come to doing it, my shyness and fear of looking silly holds me back from expressing that plan I had in my mind initially.

I would have to say that even though I still am a little inhibited, it has really improved after a few months of TSD. I think the most important part I have taken from the lessons would be the build up of trust among my fellow TSD taking peers. After every lesson, I get more and more comfortable to express myself and look stupid when I have to, because I know that everyone else is doing the same thing and looking as silly as I am (as horrible as that sounds)!

Basically, to overcome my fear to express myself well physically, I had to build up a lot of confidence in myself and not have the constant pessimistic thought that ‘I am looking so awkward, oh no’, because in actual fact, if I kept thinking that I look awkward, my actions would naturally be more stiff and my thought would be a self fulfilling prophecy!

- Melissa