Body and Voice 1B (DRAM10024)

Intended learning outcomes

This subject enables students to:

• develop a reflexive use of the major articulators;
• develop and extend vocal range;
• identify aspects of functional grammar in text;
• develop clarity of meaning through speech and movement;
• develop a kinaesthetic awareness of the relationship between metaphor and the actor’s physical and vocal imagination;
• create physical images, interpret and embody physical and vocal characteristics in the context of story telling.

Generic skills

On completing this subject students will be able to:
• collaborate in a team;
• initiate ideas and put them into practice;
• work spontaneously with authenticity;
• have a capacity for awareness in action;
• have a capacity for spatial composition;
• have a sense of rhythmical dynamics;
• to synthesise data and evaluate information;
• have a capacity for imaginative, transformative and interpretive activity;
• have a capacity for mental, vocal, physical and emotional rigour in application to tasks;
• have a capacity for self reflection and engagement in productive autonomous learning and research;
• use problem solving skills;
• transfer skills into practice.