| CODE | THS2072 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Performance Laboratory: Action, Dramaturgy, Montage | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Theatre Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This practical unit is aimed at providing students with the tools to develop and manage performance material within a dramaturgical context. In the first part of the course, students will learn basic techniques of constructing individual performance scores within a personal dramaturgy. In the second part, the individual performance scores will be brought together in groups of two or more by way of montage techniques and shared dramaturgies. This study-unit will provide students with a practical insight in concepts they would have been and would be exposed to in the theory and history courses, namely (1) the construction and nature of a line of actions, (2) the research and generation of dramaturgy, and (3) the structuring principles of montage. Study-unit Aims: - To equip students with the tools to develop and manage individual performance material within a dramaturgical context. - To equip students with the tools to montage individual material into a collective performance structure. - To present students with advanced thinking skills about different ways of constructing dramaturgies. - To offer comparative reading in a broad range of dramaturgical approaches. - To gain specialist knowledge in the historical and theoretical context of dramaturgy. - To make dynamic links between theory and practice. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: Students engaging fully with this study-unit will: - learn how to warm up and prepare the voice and body for performance - be able to understand and reflect on how the body and voice might operate as elementary ‘tools’ for different modes of performance - gain basic insight into anatomical aspects of the performing body, and training techniques that focus on these. - understand the need for discipline and care in body, voice and movement work. - understand how performance energy, focus, engagement, concentration and projection can be enhanced through training. - to reflect on weaknesses and strengths and consider practical strategies for overcoming and enhancing these. - to apply and develop techniques learnt in simple etudes & their rehearsals. - understand the wider ethical and cultural dimensions of such body-based work. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - undertake autonomous and independent working practices, exercising initiative and personal responsibility. - work in groups to create performance. - reflect and develop personal skills through writing & practical work. - identify health and safety and ethical issues in body-based work and undertake risk assessments of their own practice. Reading List: - E. Barba, N. Savarese, The Secret Art of the Performer, second edition (London: Routledge, 2006). - A. Hodge (ed), Twentieth Century Actor Training (London: Routledge, 2000). - E. Barba, On Directing and Dramaturgy - Burning the House (London: Routledge, 2010). - D. Heddon and J. Milling, Devising Performance: A Critical History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). - A. Dennis, The Articulate Body: The Physical Training of the Actor (London: Nick Hern Books, 2002). - M. Evans, Movement Training and the Modern Actor (London: Routledge, 2009). - J. Lecoq, The Theatre of Movement and Gesture (London: Routledge, 2006). - S. Murray and J. Keefe, eds. Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction (London: Routledge, 2007). - I. Watson, ed., Performer Training: Developments Across Cultures (London: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2001). - P. Zarrilli, Psychophysical Acting: An Intercultural Approach after Stanislavski (London: Routledge, 2008). Note: Students will also be conducting their own readings in their research on individual and shared dramaturgies. These readings will feature in their logbooks. |
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| RULES/CONDITIONS | Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST TAKE THS1067 AND TAKE THS1068 | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Demonstrations and Lectures | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Frank Camilleri |
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