Think of the different nonverbal cues that you have seen from the performance of West Side Story and explain its importance in conveying the emotion and message in particular scene.
● When Maria and Tony met in dance party, their eye contact shown that they were charmed and fallen in love. They did not stop look each other.
● When Jets waiting for Sharks coming, they look very tight. Some walking around, some rubbing hands and some flicking fingers that behavior shown that Jets were nervous to battle with Sharks. Jets' tension made the audience felt their tension too.
● When Riff died, Tony straightly came to Riff and crying while holding. Shown that Tony felt so sad about Riff's died. Tony expression made the audience touched. Then the audience emotion went hire when Tony with his sharp eye contact, pushed Bernardo until fall down because Bernardo killed Riff.
● Tony met Maria in her room. Tony came exhaustedly, frightened, confused, and nervous before he told about Bernardo's died. Tony expression shown that he felt guilty. Because he killed her brother.
● When Maria knew that Bernardo killed by Tony, Maria closed her face with her hands, shown that she was sad about Bernardo's died.
● When Maria looked Tony's died with her own eyes, maria straightly came to Tony, holding him tightly and crying loudly. The message told by maria that she felt very sad about it.
● Maria put the gun to her head, breathing unorganized, pale face, and crying. The message was she prepared herself before did suicide.
