Writing for Performance 2 (Collab) (THTR70009)
Graduate coursework level 7Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
Overview
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In this practice-based subject the student writer undertakes a range of writing classes and exercises with the aim of developing techniques for the generation and structuring of original material for live performance within a collaborative context; in working to a brief in diverse professional circumstances; and in developing the skills necessary to negotiate a collaborative creative vision. Students engage in a range of collaborative writing exercises including working with performers on a small group devised project, team writing, improvisation, writing with/for communities, and collaborative adaptations of existing dramatic texts. The subject focuses on the relationship between form and content, and between performers and the audience, on tensions between order and disorder, questions of authorship, and what constitutes performance in the hyper-real digital age. New international and Australian forms of ‘decentered’ collaborative dramaturgy, in which a multiplicity of trends, narratives and directions run in parallel and/or intersect in various innovative ways, will also be explored. From time to time there will be master classes with visiting professional performance writers.
Intended learning outcomes
On completing this subject students will be able to:
- demonstrate an ability to write for performance collaboratively and in diverse ways at a high standard;
- work productively and creatively at various levels, both as an individual and as a team member, in a wide variety of performing artist environments;
- demonstrate skills in the gathering and organisation of research materials;
- effectively document the creative process;
- demonstrate the ability to write collaboratively in new forms;
- demonstrate the capacity to respond in writing creatively, imaginatively and rigorously to diverse stimuli and by means of diverse processes;
- demonstrate an advanced understanding of the building blocks of dramatic and other forms of writing for performance.
Generic skills
On completing this subject students will be able to:
• demonstrate the capacity to evaluate and synthesise data and other information;
• demonstrate an ability to access data and other information from a range of sources;
• demonstrate an advanced ability to discourse on artistic practice in the context of wider aesthetic, social and historical domains;
• demonstrate an ability to apply relevant research processes to specific cultural practice;
• demonstrate the ability to communicate in oral and written form;
• demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
Ongoing participation in class work, readings, workshops and discussions throughout semester (ongoing) 10%
Portfolio of collaborative writing works, which may include critical reflection on work created, equivalent to 5000 words. The submited work will consist of four separate collaborative elements:
Adaptation (April, Week 5) - 22.5%
Digital Theatre (May, Week 9) - 22.5%
Live Art (May, Week 11) - 22.5%
Collab & Improvisation (June, Week 13) - 22.5%
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Raimondo Cortese Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 48 Total time commitment 120 hours Teaching period 26 February 2018 to 27 May 2018 Last self-enrol date 9 March 2018 Census date 31 March 2018 Last date to withdraw without fail 4 May 2018 Assessment period ends 22 June 2018 Semester 1 contact information
Raimondo Cortese
Time commitment details
120 Hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
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Last updated: 3 November 2022