Module Identifier | PF20310 | ||
Module Title | PRINCIPLES OF PERFORMANCE 2 | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Mike Pearson | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Co-Requisite | PF20110 | ||
Course delivery | Practical | 20 Hours 10 x 2 Hour practical lectures | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Practical Exercise: Individual (10 minutes) demonstration of practical work (As part of this presentation, students will be expected to demonstrate the ability to articulate and mediate physical behaviour and gesture in order to generate performative meaning) | 35% |
Semester Assessment | Group Presentation: Group (10 minutes) demonstration of practical work | 35% | |
Semester Assessment | 1,000 word notebook/essay (The notebook for this module will take the form of ten 100-word reflections/analyses of each of the practical lectures presented. The student will be expected to indicate their understanding of the nature of the technique and its potential application in performance) (All assignments will be marked by a single member of staff) | 30% |
Typically, upon completion of the module, the student will be able:
- to demonstrate an informed ability to articulate and mediate physical behaviour and gesture in order to generate performative meaning
- to participate effectively in interactive, improvisational procedures
- to employ and organise various creative, performative practices in both solo and group contexts, accepting responsibility for determining personal and communal creative production.
- to notate and document concisely involvement in, and theoretical understanding of, performative practices
to provide a practical basis for the understanding of performative behaviours and practices which complements the theoretical analysis of performance offered in PF20110 Principles of Performance 1;
to introduce a precise performance technique which relies upon the acquisition of nine physical languages - three individual three for two people and three for groups.- each comprised of a fixed and limited number of gestures and movements;
to introduce procedures of personal and group improvisation;
to examine physical aspects of social and interpersonal behaviour;
The technique is progressive and allows the student to begin to articulate and mediate their physical work to create complex interactive improvisations. It does not rely upon athletic ability and operates as a means of quantifying, analysing and generating physical performance work, and will be used to achieve both these goals during the course of this module.
Practical lecture schedule :
1. Learning the Language: the basics - Duo 1
2. Learning the Language: the basics - Duo 2
3. Learning the Language: the basics - Solo 1
4. Learning the Language: the basics - Solo 2
5. Learning the Language: the basics - Group 1
6. Learning the Language: the basics - Group 2
7. Learning the Language: the basics - Duo 3, Solo 3, Group 3
8. Articulation
9. Mediation
10. Choreography
Criteria for assessment :
i] Solo Demonstration : in assessing the solo presentation the examiner will expect:
- Articulation: understanding and application of procedures of physical articulation (25% of the overall demonstration mark)
- Mediation: understanding and application of procedures of physical mediation (25%)
- Choreography: evidence of the strategic organisation of the physical presentation (25%)
- Dramaturgy: precision of exposition within the temporal parameters of the presentation (25%)
ii] Group Demonstration : in assessing the group presentation, the examiner will expect:
- Articulation: understanding and application of procedures of physical articulation (25% of the overall demonstration mark)
- Mediation: understanding and application of procedures of physical mediation (25%)
- Choreography: evidence of the strategic organisation of the physical presentation (25%)
- Dramaturgy: precision of exposition within the temporal parameters of the presentation (25%)
iii] Notebook/Essay : in assessing the notebook, the examiner will expect:
- academic reflection upon the physical processes (20% of the overall notebook mark)
- effective notation of creative practices (20%)
- personal reflection upon involvement in group practices (20%)
- precise writing within the given parameters of length (20%)
- an understanding of nature of the technique and its potential application in performance (20%)
- communication through non-verbal means
- presentation of self, confidently and with spatial awareness, through the articulation of physical behaviour.