Clan Wolf Striker Outpost

The Neutral masks presentation was an interesting one. Neutral masks are used by actors to practice using a full range of motions to represent emotion other than facial expressions. The masks strip away any facial emotion forcing you to use your whole body to represent the emotion. To practice the group had us represent different colors with our bodies. How does the color move? How does it interact with its environment? During the exercise I imagined each color as pertaining to a particular elemental force. Blue maybe was water for some, but to me it was lightning. Red was fire, brown earth, yellow radiance, etc. Funny how afterwards we did elements, so for those I repeated what I had chosen for the colors. After the practice we were put in pairs and told to interact with and object and another person. We were both given an element and a color that we had to represent with the object. I had Air and Red. After each pair went the audience had to guess what element and color we were. The audience guessed every element except air, porbably because I had given red the attitude of fire. I tried to represent Air as light and non commital, going towards the object and flitting away. The other explanation the group gave was that when you apply the neutral mask to an actor you see there personality come out. Since the group guessed earth and fire first that makes sense because I am a fire sign and earth rising. Astrology is fun.