Gesture exercise

We were given a scene from A midsummer nights dream between Helena and Demetrius from the beginning of the play. We were then shown 3 gestures that we could use during the scene and use along with the lines to make it easier to understand through gestures and body language. It also helped us understand the two characters, Helena and Demetrius as we could choose which gestures suited them most. The 3 gestures were: probe, hook and dismiss. We then had to go through the lines and pick certain words that we should stress during the lines to make it more effective, the gestures were usually used on the words we decided to stress and helped us to make the scene more interesting or understandable for the audience. This exercise could help us to think about these things in our own scenes.