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normally – giving clues about their next actions and orienting to other pass-
ers-by – until the signal to freeze is given. Picture (4) of figure 7 above is the
exact moment when Charlie and Cody, who are in the lead and serve as other
participants’ cue, freeze. The way stillness is achieved is interesting: Charlie
and Cody do not stop walking and then take a pose; they freeze in the course
of their bodily movement which appears as a natural posture. The spe-
cific characteristic of the freeze-in-place mission emerges out of this very
contrast between their arriving to the covered area as “normal people” walk-
ing, and ...