Performance Practice 2B (DRAM20020)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
Overview
| Availability | Semester 2 |
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This subject draws upon skills developed in Acting and Performance Making 2B. Focus is placed on interpretive strategies for staging original performances of extant text. Areas covered will include the translation of an initial idea, source material or dramaturgical analysis, through a process of exploration, imagination, creation and structuring, to arrive at performed interpretation. This subject will culminate in the presentation of a short performance text in the form of a scene study, and the collaboration in an ensemble performance based on extant text.
Intended learning outcomes
On the completion of this subject students should be able to
- effectively deploy the craft skills of interpretive acting (working with authenticity, sustaining an imaginary world, revealing inner life, advancing textual meaning)
- demonstrate autonomous approach to the interpretation of text
- develop and sustain processes of transformation suitable to the process
- synthesise training experiences into an effective approach of their own
- work with initiative and generated ideas on the floor
- transfer skills to a rehearsal/production process.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject students should have acquired the following skills
- The ability to solve problems creatively
- The ability to work confidently in the unknown
- The ability to trust the work process in which they are involved
- The ability to initiate ideas and to put them into practice
- The ability to collaborate in a team
- The ability to work autonomously
- The ability to transfer conceptual thinking into practice
Last updated: 3 November 2022