EA116-4-FY-LO:
Movement I
2023/24
East 15 Acting School
East15 (Loughton) Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 4
Current
Thursday 05 October 2023
Friday 28 June 2024
15
31 March 2021
Requisites for this module
(none)
(none)
(none)
(none)
(none)
BA W411 Acting,
BA W411MV Acting,
BA W83A Acting (International),
BA W441 Acting and Contemporary Theatre
Term One will investigate the students own movement preferences and identify blocks and postural issues allowing the student to create their own 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 and Term Three will see them finding a more creative process using the skills learnt, constantly keeping focused on the previous terms findings.
The aim of the module is to encourage students to acquire progressively a secure understanding of physical and mental resources for a dynamic and expressive presentation of body within a methodology of movement techniques
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.
Term One will investigate the students own movement preferences and identify blocks and postural issues allowing the student to create their own 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 them finding a more creative process using the skills learnt, constantly keeping focused on the previous terms findings
Students work with movement tutors in group practical classes
Normally 6 hours of movement classes per week except during acting priority weeks
Learning also takes place through presentations within the class environment
Panel feedback interviews at the end of Terms One and Three
Students receive a written or verbal formative assessment from tutors at the end of the second term
Students are expected to work on movement in independent study.
Students may be filmed within the classroom and then given the opportunity to study the footage alongside feedback from the tutor.
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Progress |
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60% |
| Coursework |
Attainment |
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40% |
| Coursework |
Feedback exchange |
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| Practical |
Continuous Assessment |
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Additional coursework information
Assessment:
Continuous assessment through observation of contribution to class work. The module is continuously assessed and a final summative mark given at the end of Term Three. Grading will be weighted 60% progress and 40% attainment.
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.
Compliance with Professional Code of Conduct
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
Mr Marcin Rudy, email: mrudy@essex.ac.uk.
Marcin Rudy and staff
East 15 Acting School
Hatfields Campus
Rectory Lane
Loughton, IG10 3RY
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No
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Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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