Communication in Theatre Directing and Performance: From Rehears ...

The brain’s structures, it is known, have billions of multisynaptic interconnections (Damasio 1994, 108), and most of the brain’s activity is not within the conscious realms. Thurman and Welch (2000, 20) concluded,

This seems to underline the idea that bodyminds have obscure aptitudes for processing both intra- and interpersonal action. Bodies have systems of learning and understanding that do not immediately or always involve conscious processing. A motor skill, for example, is guided and determined by feedback received from various sensory receptors (Kerr 1982, 21), which can bypass consciousness altogether (Damasio 2000; Kerr 1982) and thus might be called quasiautomatic, having been either acquired as a skill—for instance, through repetition and habituation (Kerr 1982)—or perhaps predetermined as part of genetic provision, making it partly intuitive. These processes are paralleled in the emotional systems and give humans the capacity to express emotion even unknowingly (LeDoux, Sakaguchi, and Reis 1984; Beeman, Ortony, and Monti 1995),‘which could explain why emotional expression is often regarded by music teachers as instinctive’(Juslin and Persson 2002, 225).Juslin and Persson also said,