Subjects

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

Classes will focus on developing an understanding of and common language for the actor’s process. The curriculum will include improvisation and introductory text analysis, with the emphasis on developing the actor’s sense of play. In the last block of the semester, students will begin to apply th...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

The terminology and process introduced in first semester will be applied to scene work, allowing students to apply their new understanding within and beyond the classroom. The emphasis will be on personal connection to the given circumstances of the character, to the text and with scene partners....

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

The focus of this subject is on ensemble practice. The foundations are laid for the development of the art of acting and the composition of original performance. This subject explores the core principles of performance creation: body, space, action, word, meaning, score, rhythm and repetition thr...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

The focus of this subject is on language, space and action and the process of bringing dramatic text to performance. Particular attention is given to the ways in which meaning is created verbally, physically and spatially and how this informs contemporary theatre practice. Actors will work throug...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

This subject is focused on deepening the ensemble practice developed in Level 1 Acting and Performance Making. The foundations of the art of acting are developed through deeper interrogation of text, actor’s process and contemporary rehearsal techniques. This subject explores the application of t...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

The focus of this subject is on extending the autonomous actor in longer generative and interpretative performance projects. Students develop the craft skills they have acquired and apply them to performance making in contemporary generative work and classical material. Actors will explore workin...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

This module is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to work on an original theatre piece within a large ensemble led by a professional director who specialises in creating contemporary performance. The student will apply their training to the full production process over 10 weeks,...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

This module is designed to provide the student with the opportunity to create and perform an original theatre piece within a small ensemble. The student will apply their training to the full production process by contributing to the research, development, creation, rehearsal and performance of a ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Winter Term Year:2017Quotas apply

This subject is an intensive introduction to art of screen acting that focuses on the processes actors use for creating effective performances for camera. A series of practical exercises are introduced that allow participants to focus on creating effective on-screen performances. Students experim...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

Acting for Singers introduces students to the fundamental principles of acting and script/libretto dramatic analysis. It prepares singers interested in performing in opera, musicals and recital situations for a career on the stage. No previous acting experience is required.

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

Acting for Singers introduces students to the fundamental principles of acting and script/libretto dramatic analysis. It prepares singers interested in performing in opera, musicals and recital situations for a career on the stage. No previous acting experience is required.

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

In first year of Acting Skills classes the creative and expressive potential of the actor is explored through the development of imagination, self-awareness, flexibility, connection and play, whilst analytical and craft-based skills are introduced to assist the performer’s development of a full p...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 2 Year:2017

With the acquisition of new acting processes and language, Acting Skills 2 will afford students the opportunity to apply these new skills, with early exploration of text process, as well as in improvisation and movement classes. The focus continues to be on developing the actor’s individual intui...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Year Long Year:2017

Acting 2 focuses on extension of skills attained in Acting 1, with the experience of working with challenging texts and extension work in physical performance. Classes in Shakespeare will provide deep technical understanding that will then be given practical application, allowing students to find...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

In Acting Skills 4, students will develop skills for acting for camera. Working with a range of film and television scripts, students will continue to apply acting processes developed in previous years whilst responding to the particular demands of the medium. Classes will develop the student’s u...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017

Acting in this Degree focuses on the requirements of developing the actor’s individual intuitive and imaginative response alongside technical craft skills. These two approaches integrate personal interpretation with the demands of serving the style and substance of story and text to provide perfo...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017

Acting 2 focuses on extension of skills attained in Acting 1, with the experience of working with challenging texts and extension work in physical performance through continuing movement classes. Classes in Shakespeare will provide deep technical understanding that will then be given practical ap...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017

In Acting 3, the emphasis switches to application of skills to performance. Here the emphasis is on opportunities for students to put into practice the craft and methodologies learned in the first two years to create an autonomous personal process that serves the intention of the particular work ...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Not offered in 2017 Year:2017

This subject will investigate social and political processes intended to lead to the achievement of emancipatory goals. Specific Australian social movements and histories related to Aboriginal empowerment and social amelioration will be contextualised within theoretical frameworks including postc...

Undergraduate subject Offered:Semester 1 Year:2017

Topics include survival models concepts; estimation procedures for lifetime distributions; multiple state models; binomial model of mortality; actuarial applications of Markov processes.