Move around the room leading with a different part of the body and see how it changes the way they move and how a different way of moving creates a different way of being in the world. For example;

Leading with the knees, bending down, feeling sneaky – knee deep in mischief.

Leading with the chin – raising the chin creates a sense of superiority, dropping the chin feels introverted, hiding.

Eg In Salmon Rushdie’s novel Midnight’s Children the protagonist and narrator Saleem Sinai has an enormous and constantly dripping nose with an extremely sensitive sense of smell. He is led by his nose through the novel.

Try being led around the room by your nose? Does it make you nosey? Poking your nose into things? Our language is full of examples of how the body creates character!

Choose one part of the body to lead with maybe the elbow or the ear and move around your room, have fun, try different kinds of movement, quick, slow, high, low, gentle, and forceful. Let the moves lead you into a character. What can you find out about your character from how they move? Imagine them entering a room and moving through that space.