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Acting is a profession that depends on the coordination of the mind and the body: a somatic link between thought and feeling, expressiveness and corporality. For an actor to effectively communicate and convey a feeling of reality, all aspects must work in unison. The struggle that arises between humans and animals in this situation undermines the notion that humans are superior to animals in both the natural and theatrical worlds. Post-modernists take use of the liminal space that animals provide between the natural and fictitious worlds in their quest to dismantle and eradicate the anthropocentric views that exist there. The animal's passive participation in the theatrical world and its overt portrayal of the untamed might of the natural world present a chance for the ideology to be reorganised. In the name of human exceptionalism, the animal's penchant for performance has come to be misinterpreted and abused, although post-modernist practitioners work to correct this.
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