I have recently been teaching T'ai Chi to Emily Bowker, an actor in the Arcola Theatre production 'Lie of the Land' which has just opened in London after receiving acclaim at Edinburgh last year. The character she plays uses meditation, T'ai Chi and yoga to keep an increasingly unpalatable world at bay. Emily herself was doing some great T'ai Chi in 121s and at a class with Mark. However, we also looked at what her character in the play will be doing: 'impersonating' T'ai Chi, ie. inauthenticity! If you go to see the play and feel that her character is practising something a touch fake yet simultaneously extremely earnest, then we will have fulfilled our rather last-minute brief (one week before first night)... Here's a link to the play's website.
http://www.arcolatheatre.com/?action=showtemplate&sid=330
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