Projection

1. Projection • _____-________ is the focus on yourself. • _________ is the focus on others, the outside world. • Projection is also the ability to project your ______ to be heard by others, to make yourself heard (underline that!) by others. • __________ is the opposite of _______-_________. It is the ability to escape the prison of ______________.

2. RESONATING Do the following in order: • Face the wall and say “ahhhhh.” • Recognize that sound is simle the vibration of molecules. Face the wall, say “ahhhh,” and feel the vibration in your throat. • Recognize that sound resonates and that sound may set up sympathetic vibrations in other objects. Face the wall, say, “ahhhh,” and try to make the molecules in the wall vibrate in harmony with your voice.

3. GOALS Do the following tasks. Afterward, define the goal, define the obstacle, and discuss the degree to which your involvement in helpyou to project.

4. Untie and remove your partner’s shoes. • Find the 126th word on page 56 of a book. • Balance a book on your partner’s head. • Find the wall or something else in the room that best resonates with the sound of your voice. • Find the best pitch of your voice to resonate that which you found in item 4. • Neaten your corner of the classroom • Move people from one corner of the classroom to the other.

5. SUMMARY • The actor ALWAYS plays toward a ______ and against an __________. • ___________ on achieving the goal reduces the actor’s self-consciousness. It demands that the actor ___________ by focusing on something or someone.