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Dramaturgy and Live Performance (DRAM90012)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
About this subject
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 2
Overview
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This subject builds on Semester 1 subjects (including Dramaturgy Text and Performance, and Cross Disciplinary Lab) to offer a practice-based exploration of performance dramaturgy in a devised, collaborative project.
The subject draws on students’ critical and theoretical understanding of dramaturgy to apply it
as a critical tool in devising live performance. The basis of this process is the translation of a central idea and theme, through research, design, documentation and practical investigation, into a studio-scale showing of a work-in-progress, and to reflect on both process and showing. The students will develop their ability to write a dramaturgical analysis of their own performance work and processes.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject students should:
- Have developed an increased consciousness about the nature of the dramaturgical process of selection, construction and framing
- Be able to work in a group through a process of researching, making, performing and reflecting
- Have developed their understanding of performance making and articulating this understanding verbally and in written form
- Be able to undertake dramaturgical analysis of their own and others’ performance
- Through processes of collaborative performance making and critical reflection, be able to articulate dramaturgical principles and structures;
- Have investigated and developed collaborative and interdisciplinary modes of working;
- Have developed multi-tasking and cooperative creative work practices.
Generic skills
- Create and organise aesthetic material
- Use a range of research tools and methodologies
- Solve problems
- Interpret and analyse
- Develop the capacity for critical thinking
- Work collaboratively showing initiative and openness
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
Practical project: process, performance and documentation. Group project, 20 mins performance - end of semester (60%)
Written Assessment 1. Essay (2000 words) - assessment period (40%)
Attendance hurdle 80%
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Alyson Campbell Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 48 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 29 July 2019 to 27 October 2019 Last self-enrol date 9 August 2019 Census date 31 August 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 September 2019 Assessment period ends 22 November 2019 Semester 2 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Cathy Turner and Synne Behrndt, Dramaturgy and Performance, (Hampshire & NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
Bogart, Anne & Tina Landau, The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition, (NY: Theatre Communications Group, 2005).
Performance Research: On Dramaturgy 14:3 (2009). Eds. Karoline Gritzner, Patrick Primavesi and Heike Roms.
Contemporary Theatre Review. 20:2 (2010) Special issue on ‘new dramaturgies’, eds. Turner and Behrndt.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Dramaturgy Course Master of Directing for Performance
Last updated: 3 November 2022