EA172-4-FY-SO:
Performance Skills
2024/25
East 15 Acting School
Southend Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
30
07 March 2023
Requisites for this module
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BA W495 World Performance
This module includes some basic training and preparation in Western Acting, Voice, and Movement. Students are introduced to the safe and healthy development and use of the voice and body in performance; to the creative and interpretative applications of different techniques and capacities of the voice and body; and to vocabularies relevant to vocal and movement work.
The Skills module offers students the opportunity to encounter and master basic performance skills which will underpin their work as performers and creators of work in the rest of the degree. Together with the Study Skills module, it is a foundation, preparing students for the final two years of the course.
(Note that these units are taught in parallel, not in sequence, throughout the module).
The aims of this module are:
To enable the student to understand and maximise his or her own vocal and physical potential.
To develop a repertoire of warm-up and preparation techniques, and an understanding of how to select and apply them.
To gain an understanding of safe working methods and strategies for avoiding and managing injury and recovery.
To introduce a range of approaches to the creative use of the voice and movement in performance.
To gain a strong grasp of truth, improvisation, observation, and character work in order to convey dramatic acting to an audience.
Students will be able to demonstrate:
- Knowledge and understanding of safe and healthy practice for preparing and using the voice in performance
- Knowledge and understanding of safe and healthy practice in movement work
- Knowledge of, and the ability to apply, a range of vocal methods in performance
- Knowledge of, and the ability to apply, a range of movement approaches in performance
- Knowledge of varied acting methodologies and techniques for conveying character and situation truthfully and dramatically to a live audience.
No additional information available.
Practical classes. Students will receive both verbal and written formative feedback.
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Marshall, L. and Oida, Y. (1992) Actor Adrift. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
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Stanislavsky, Konstantin (no date)
An Actor’s Work?: A Student’s Diary. Edited by Benedetti, Jean. Available at:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/universityofessex-ebooks/detail.action?docID=325509.
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Stanislavski, Konstantin (no date)
An actor’s work on a role. Available at:
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203870921.
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Leach, Robert, (no date)
Makers of Modern theatre?: An Introduction. Available at:
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780203487860.
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Aristotle, (no date) Poetics /Aristotle?; translated with an introduction and notes by Malcolm Heath.
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Barba, E., Fowler, R. and Savarese, N. (2006)
A dictionary of theatre anthropology: the secret art of the performer. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. Available at:
https://essex.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/action/uresolver.do?operation=resolveService&package_service_id=4613765190007346&institutionId=7346&customerId=7345.
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Adrian, B. (2008) Actor training the Laban way: an integrated approach to voice, speech, and movement. New York: Allworth Press.
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The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Practical |
Acting |
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25% |
| Practical |
Movement |
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25% |
| Practical |
Voice |
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25% |
| Practical |
Performance Project |
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25% |
Additional coursework information
Assessment
- Continuous assessment of practical work in classes.
- Term Three Performance Project.
- Movement will be summatively assessed at the end of the module and a single mark awarded.
- Voice will be summatively assessed at the end of the module and a single mark awarded.
Weighting
- Acting (25%)
- Movement (35%)
- Voice (25%)
- Term Three Performance Project (25%)
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
tbc
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Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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