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Discipline Skills G (DRAM60021)

Graduate coursework level 6Points: 12.5Not available in 2018

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This subject is for those specialising in Animateuring. This subject extends the knowledge and application of the materials and structures of performance and investigates their application to the act of performance with an audience. There will be further opportunities for discovering fresh ways to generate performance, with particular emphasis placed on cross-modal work within the discipline itself.

Intended learning outcomes


  • understand various strategies in facilitating and directing new artistic work;
  • exhibit the ability to recognise different directing approaches and inherent roles and responsibilities
  • exhibit the ability to adapt and modify recognised structures to one's own work;
  • understand the nature of rhythm in the performance arts;
  • exhibit a working understanding of group dynamics and of some basic tenets of the psychology of archetypes;
  • analyse a piece of non-dramatic text with a view to its dramatic potential;
  • exhibit an understanding of some structure of gathering and collating material.

Generic skills

On completion of the subject students should have developed;

  • The ability to work with a group through and understanding of group dynamics, based on experiential practice and theoretical research
  • The ability to facilitate the creativity of others and to identify points of initiation
  • A facility with how to structure a creative work through an understanding of structural principles

Last updated: 3 November 2022