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Clowning is a comic performance style that emphasizes exaggerated movements and humorous interaction with the audience, often used to explore universal human behaviors.

Corporeal Mime focuses on the expressive potential of the human body, emphasizing precise physical movement and articulation.

Commedia dell'Arte is an early form of theater characterized by improvised dialogues and physical comedy. It relies heavily on stock characters and standardized movements.

Poor Theatre strips away the excess of theatrical productions and focuses instead on the rawness of the actor's performance, emphasizing physicality and the actor-audience relationship.

Laban Movement Analysis is a method for understanding and notating how the body moves. It explores body, effort, shape, and space dynamics to characterize movement.

Le Coq Technique involves using the body to explore characters, emotions, and storytelling, emphasizing the importance of movement and physical expression in performance.

Physical Narrative is the telling of a story through body language and movement rather than spoken words, which can be more engaging for young audiences.

Viewpoints is a technique of composition that provides a vocabulary for thinking about and acting upon movement and gesture. It breaks down performance into distinct elements like time and space.

The Alexander Technique teaches actors to get rid of harmful tension in their bodies, promoting ease and fluency of movement for a more authentic performance.

Physical Comedy is a form of acting in which slapstick, exaggerated actions, and sometimes acrobatics are used to provoke laughter and convey humor through body movement.

Mask Work in theater involves using masks to abstract the actor's face, focusing attention on body language and movement to convey emotions and intentions.

Mime is the art of suggesting action, character, or emotion without words, using only gesture, expression, and movement.

The Neutral Mask is a training tool that helps actors eliminate unnecessary tension, develop a sense of economy in movement, and discover a neutral state of physicality.

Biomechanics is a system of actor training that combines physical and psychological training to create emotional expressiveness through precise, rhythmic movements.

Actor's Presence refers to the ability of an actor to command the audience's attention using their physicality, energy, and the truthful connection to the moment.

Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre characterized by slow, controlled, and often contorted movements that express profound emotions and themes.

Physical Improvisation is the spontaneous creation of movement and story, often without spoken dialogue, relying on the actors' physicality to convey meaning.

Stage Combat is the choreography of fighting scenes to ensure safety and believability. Actors are trained to simulate combat while protecting themselves and their colleagues.

The Suzuki Method is a rigorous physical training for actors that improves concentration, emotional and physical power and control, and company ensemble-building.