Crazy Theater Teacher's Weird Body Language Theory

My crazy theater teacher had a very strange theory about people and their body language!

ARTISTS:

00:00 - Character Spheres?
01:43 - Vacant Head Sphere
03:06 - Intellectual Head Sphere
04:24 - Heart Sphere
05:50 - Will Sphere
07:36 - Outro

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[LetMeExplainStudios]

Gosh, you're all so smart. I love reading these comments and your discussions! You're the best audience. ❤

[themysterynottwins]

When she called the Vacant Head Sphere and Intellectual Head Sphere "The Twins, " I immediately thought of Dipper and Mabel from Gravity Falls.

[nataliegray]

Something about these "character spheres" actually does strike a chord. I remember learning about leading with the hips/head/chest and how sitting on different parts of a seat have something to do with character in my high school theater classes. I think we called them something different, but for the life of me I couldn't tell you what.

[Choujifangirl]

“they have the ability to hold eye contact they just don’t want to”

I love that you pretty much described autism, and eye contact in one sentence

[I_AmIronMan]

This would honestly probably help in character building for acting

[briibreadncheese]

I swear with every video-
Rebbeca and her videos are slowly becoming a classic cartoon and I’m all in on it

[Yourhatedquestion]

The spheres was also taught when I took movement classes in university, but they were called temperaments. Not so much with the thought "everyone is the emphasis of one", but "keep these four charismatics constant when playing a character and the audience won't be confused, even if you're playing multiple characters without costume change".

[meet-me]

OMG I fit perfectly, like REALY PERFECTLY with the vacant head sphere

[ucg-gaming]

You can feel the density of the anger when she says “this sphere is the only sphere that sits in a chair like a normal person” while describing the heart sphere

[fishcraft]

My acting teacher had something similar to this. The difference was she had us take a test that would determine what we were. I got exactly 25% in each of the 4 categories.

[thefandommaster]

Although we never used spheres to generalize traites, in my acting courses we always discussed how you can build characters starting with strong body language. How different walks can suggest different archetypes and how just changing what body part you lead with can change a character. The ability to quickly create strong characteristic body language was an especially important skill when I was in improv.

[theheavyflamer]

"They're like Sans, they start off with their strongest attack."
She never fails to make me laugh harder than I should. Keep up the good work Becca.

[SoniasWay]

I laughed at “the STRUT-O-SPHERE” more than I should have.
She never fails to make me smile
Love from a fellow creator <3

[crazydglady]

If you think about it, though, it kind of makes sense to explain character acting highschoolers in this way. Because highschoolers and people in their teams, they like to break things into categories they can understand. So when you’re breaking up, how to behave for certain characters, putting those characters into a category of the following the things in those categories, actually make a lot of sense. But I would not use this for professional acting were acting beyond high school because as Rebecca pointed out everybody is a little bit of everything.

[eddyneedssleep]

While it's practically impossible to put a real-life person into strictly one of these spheres, I do see how this can be used to help characterization in theatre. How a character walks and interacts with their environment can tell the audience a lot about them, so this makes sense in terms of acting. Real life however, no :)

[Ying_Ming]

" it hasn't gone anywhere probably never will the apocalypse could happen and all will be left is a bunch of cockroaches and a 10-person acting troop performing cats to said cockroaches" my absolute favorite part

[robertclifton]

I’ve never heard this exact theory, but one of my directors had a similar one based entirely in what body part you lead with when you walk. The categories were: Head (intelligent Spock type), Chest (bravado Gryffindor type), Stomach (chill pothead type), and Crotch (swaggering high school bully type). It doesn’t make much sense for real people, but it’s a decent exercise to build up your character.
Our director was very nice, btw. He wasn’t like Medusa at all

[skorpian]

I could definitely see this working if you wanted to decide how a character your playing would physically act or take up space. Obviously doesn’t work for real people but would work well when deciding how to act as a certain character

[presentitory]

I have a feeling that these spheres are also heavily influenced on the Italian Commedia Del'Arte, which mixes personality types with body language. The heart sphere, for instance, is very similar to the role of Columbina, the rational, empathetic character who leads with her chest.

[sugarfreeskull]

the sans undertale joke i completely understood and got before realizing, no thats not a normal thing normal people say. love u rebecca lmao