TED talks Response

Obviously, both Mark Hill and McGregor share the same passion for theatre, and more importantly, theatrical dancing. However, Mark Hill believes in the fact that actors are just 'empty shells' on stage and theatrical Gods take over them. McGregor doesn't believe this at all, he's more of a practical thinker instead of a spiritual thinker. I think that this is because Mark Hill had trained with Japanese Butoh dancers and being Japanese probably influenced Mr. Hill in a sense where traditional Japanese spiritual stories had shaped his thought on theatrical dancing. I think that both Mark Hill and McGregor share the idea of using peripherals and isolating body parts while still focusing on the whole body. I also think that both dancers think that keeping energy levels high are an essential part of theatre but, I think that Mark Hill has a better grasp at this as he also uses the fact that actors can still keep their energy levels high while still keeping very still or curled up on the floor. I think that this is a part of Butoh's influence on Mark Hill, where Butoh requires the actors to fall on the floor and go very slowly through the pain when getting up from the fetal position.

Another thing that both actors have in common is the use of mental architecture where the actors have to visualize themselves as objects or reanimate objects that might not be there in the first place, on stage with them. I think that this is both crucial and effective in theatrical dance because of the fact that there are NO words involved in physical theatre, and the more the actors imagine and create up on stage, the more they have to show it with each limb that they have, and the more they show up on stage, the more the audience can see therefore making the audience see what the actors see.