Towards the Creative Self Through Bodily Creativity

Expressivity and bodily aesthetics are skills that can be trained individually through the study of formal/social settings. However, this consists of a mechanistic understanding of the type of facial or bodily expression that the individual expresses when subjected to certain emotions, sensations or situations. Therefore, this study looks at the connection between the pure moment when creativity emerges and the transition of expressive and aesthetic elements from a mechanical to an organic format. This training and study of social forms is important for the actor because through it the body trains its motor memory. Thus during the stage act, conscious of the body's capabilities, the actor can allow himself to relinquish conscious control over the way his muscles, bones and joints operate, allowing himself to be captured by the energy and content of the act itself, giving it life and uniqueness through unconscious creativity.