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Exercise
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News Report
Through observing our bodily responses to the onslaught of crisis news, this exercise invites us to identify our emotions as we navigate the current pandemic situation.
Pick a current news article in video form.
Observe your gestural responses (opening mouth, eye-rolling, nervous twitching etc..) that arise within you voluntarily or involuntarily as you watch or listen to the news.
What kinds of everyday gestures or stylised/abstract gestures did you notice?

Tentative square

Tentative feet
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Stepping out into the Unknown (circles)
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Skip-hop (circle)

A-void-dance

A punctuation of ending

Standing Cradle

Walking Cradle
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Heart Reach (longing heart)

Abhaya Mudra

Resting on the horizon (30 sec)

Circling hands

Brushstrokes
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Sisyphus (moving forward, moving back)

Exhaustive Shields

A-void-dance

Struggle-release

Punctuation of an ending

Starfish (Stationary instead of open vulnerability/close safety)

Foetus Position (Comfort/Womb)

Reclining (breastfeeding)
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Submission (prostration)

Traveller’s stop

Hello/goodbye (beginning and endings of relationship)

Backwalk