Calibration
Also known as Reading the Room, Adjusting
The ongoing skill of reading the scene, the partner, and the audience in real time and adjusting size, pace, and choice to fit what the moment actually needs.
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- Often described as the difference between a technically correct scene and a scene that lands: the same move can be too big in one room and too small in another.
- Will Hines and other UCB-lineage teachers frame it as a third skill alongside accepting and heightening, the one that tells you how far to push.
- Calibration applies inward too: matching a grounded partner instead of steamrolling them with energy they did not invite.
- Hard to drill in isolation because it depends on live feedback, which is why it is usually taught through performance reps rather than exercises.
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