EA295-5-FY-SO:
Circus in a Suitcase
2016/17
East 15 Acting School
Southend Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
15
11 May 2009
Requisites for this module
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BA W494 Acting and Physical Theatre
This compulsory second year module for the BA Physical Theatre introduces students to the broad range of circus skills needed to create circus. It provides an individual performance focus and encourages development of individual performance ability in a particular skill such as aerials, juggling, clowning or stilt-walking. The course delivers physical conditioning for circus skills and development of acrobatic skills.
Circus is a predominantly specialist discipline in which the focus is on skills and virtuoso performance. Students build on their understanding of, and experience in a variety of circus skills, and work toward a professional level of expertise in their individual circus discipline such as corde lisse, bungy, trapeze, juggling, or clowning. This unit also further develops acrobatic balancing and tumbling to a professional level.
By the end of the module students will have developed and experienced a range of advanced circus skills, an individual creative performance focus in a discipline such as corde lisse, bungy, trapeze, juggling, or clowning and advanced acrobatic balancing and tumbling skills.
The work of the module also includes an element of street theatre training which aims to integrate and apply elements of mask, clowning skills and commedia and thus provides students with opportunities to put into practice a wide range of the skills they have learned in the first year of the course.
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Circus studio training, independent study, screenings, rehearsal
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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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
Simon Hunt and staff
01702 32 8319
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Ms Niamh Dowling
Rose Bruford College
Head of School Performance
Available via Moodle
No lecture recording information available for this module.
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