EA005-4-FY-SO:
Movement for Theatre Arts
2019/20
East 15 Acting School
Southend Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
Thursday 03 October 2019
Friday 26 June 2020
15
17 September 2019
Requisites for this module
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CERXW410 Acting and Theatre Arts,
CERXW410ST Acting and Theatre Arts
This full year module is one four Skills modules in the CertHE Theatre Arts course. Term One will investigate students' own movement preferences and identify blocks and postural issues allowing them to develop an understanding of their bodies and how they move, encouraging them to find the neutral body. Term Two will explore applying the newly-found neutral body into a more vigorous training and more detailed exploration of movement technique. Term Three will see students more effectively applying learnt skills, constantly focussed on the previous terms' findings.
- To provide students with the ability to:
- Make a self-assessment of their own physical capabilities
- Perform personal warm-ups for the health and safety of the body
- Identify good practice needed to maintain body fitness
- Apply movement techniques to acting
Students will be able to demonstrate awareness of and ability to put into practice:
1. Class Etiquette: Attends and arrives for class in a timely manner with the body and mind in a state of readiness to work. (This includes dress code.)
2. Ensemble: Works well with peers by contributing both physical and creative ideas to group work and discussions. In collaboration is able to lead and follow.
3. Alignment: Working towards a physicality that is free of excess muscular tensions and imbalances. Centred with core stability and ease in alignment.
4. Dynamics: Able to adapt and take on other forms and qualities of movement, styles, rhythms, efforts, use of space etc. Shows variety in personal qualitative range.
5. Body Confidence: Brave and willing to take the space with a full-energized presence. Has confidence in the use of one’s own body.
6. Creativity: Uses the body as an extension of one’s imagination and is rigorous, inventive, and original in the development of an idea.
7. Inner Life: Connects the physical to the emotional, is able to reveal their own and or characters interior life through body language.
8. Physical Memory: Able to repeat both choreography, set physical actions, and mentally scored sequences with both precession and connection.
9. Self-Assessment: Understands where personal growth is needed, and demonstrates a willingness to take risk in class to overcome personal blocks.
10. Integration of Skills: Takes personal ownership of their work, demonstrates the ability to integrate movement/physicality into performed tasks and assessments. The student has begun to develop their own intelligent movement-based process that enables them to create what is physically required in any given creative process.
Learning Outcomes may be combined or condensed within the Report Form.
Term One
- Development of strength, suppleness and stamina
- Posture, balance and co-ordination
- Warm-ups for body health and safety
- Release of emotional inhibitions in movement
- Linking movement and dance to voice and acting
- Use of the body in group work
- Demonstrating basic human emotions using rhythm, sounds, music and words
Term Two
- Extending knowledge of movement with emphasis on rhythm, timing, posture, balance and co-ordination
- Awareness of Health & Safety issues
- Injury prevention
- Scenes in rehearsal: period style and carriage in movement and dance work
- Performing short movement sequences and dances
Term Three
- Awareness of the body as an actor's instrument
- Vocabulary for analysing body language
- Integration of movement with voice and acting
- Using the body expressively and freely in communication of emotion
- Application of learned movement techniques to acting challenges.
Term One
- Development of strength, suppleness and stamina
- Posture, balance and co-ordination
- Warm-ups for body health and safety
- Release of emotional inhibitions in movement
- Linking movement and dance to voice and acting
- Use of the body in group work
- Demonstrating basic human emotions using rhythm, sounds, music and words
Term Two
- Extending knowledge of movement with emphasis on rhythm, timing, posture, balance and co-ordination
- Awareness of Health & Safety issues
- Injury prevention
- Scenes in rehearsal: period style and carriage in movement and dance work
- Performing short movement sequences and dances
Term Three
- Awareness of the body as an actor's instrument
- Vocabulary for analysing body language
- Integration of movement with voice and acting
- Using the body expressively and freely in communication of emotion
- Application of learned movement techniques to acting challenges.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Continuous Assessment |
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Additional coursework information
The assessment criteria for this module are the extent to which students can demonstrate understanding of the module learning outcomes.
Students are expected to show evidence of consistent work in class and to execute periodically set exercises to an appropriate standard.
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Steffany George
East 15 Acting School
Hatfields Campus
Rectory Lane
Loughton, IG10 3RY
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Mr Keith John O'Brien
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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