| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Practical | Practical class 1 x 2 hour per week (10 in total in both semesters) |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | [1] 1000 word commentary: addressing personal participation and development across the In all languages training. This work will be assessed against the following criteria: - Awareness and articulation of the strategies and procedures engaged. - Understanding and articulation of possible consequences and intentions enabled by the procedures engaged. - Understanding and awareness of personal functioning within the work. - Understanding and awareness of group functioning within the work. | 20% |
| Semester Assessment | 2] Solo Demonstration of practical work. 10 minutes duration. This work will be assessed against the following criteria: - Articulation: understanding and application of procedures of physical articulation. - Mediation: understanding and application of procedures of physical mediation. - Choreography: evidence of the strategic organisation of the physical presentation. - Dramaturgy: precision of exposition within the temporal parameters of the presentation. - Critical self-awareness: evidence of awareness and understanding of the consequences of decisions and behaviour. | 40% |
| Semester Assessment | 3] Group Demonstration of practical work. 10 minutes duration. This work will be assessed against the following criteria: - Articulation: understanding and application of procedures of physical articulation. - Mediation: understanding and application of procedures of physical mediation. - Choreography: evidence of the strategic organisation of the physical presentation. - Dramaturgy: precision of exposition within the temporal parameters of the presentation. - Critical self-awareness: evidence of awareness and understanding of the consequences of decisions and behaviour. | 40% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Failure of Assessment 1 would necessitate the submission of a 1000 word critical commentary on a performance work or practice, specified by the teaching staff. Failure of Assessment 2 would necessitate the submission of a 2000 word written analysis of a solo performance work, specified by the teaching staff, and analysed in relation to the practices and procedures explored within the module. Failure of Assessment 3 would necessitate the submission of a 2000 word written analysis of an ensemble performance work, specified by the teaching staff, and analysed in relation to the practices and procedures explored within the module. | 100% |
On completion of this module, students should be able to.
1. To employ and organise identified performative practices, in the context of both solo and group investigations.
2. To demonstrate a practical and theoretical understanding of identified performative practices.
3. To participate effectively and responsibly in interactive improvisational procedures.
4. To demonstrate an informed ability to articulate and mediate physical behaviour and gesture in order to generate performative meaning.
The module offers a series of practical classes: combining aspects of physical and performer training, with an introduction to the procedures of `in all languages' - 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 strategies of personal and group improvisation, and to examine the performative implications and consequences of physical aspects of social and interpersonal behaviour.
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | This element is not assessed. |
| Communication | The individual student¿s ability to articulate and communicate their ideas and opinions is developed across the duration of the module. This area of development is encouraged and assessed within all aspects of the processes and presentations involved, and the assessment forms recognise effective communication across verbal and performative material. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Self-regulation, motivation and time-management are demanded to maintain engagement with the development of the course and the completion of its concomitant assessed assignments. Assessment procedures recognise effective self-management and self-motivation. |
| Information Technology | Skills of information handling are not formally assessed, but are exercised through the conduct of research, presentation processes, and the collation of materials within the process of group working and individual study. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | The module encourages the initial development of skills directly applicable to careers within cultural (particularly theatre/performance) industries. Further transferable skills (project planning and execution, the development of personal creative initiatives) are also developed through the completion of assessment tasks, though careers need awareness does not of itself constitute an assessed element. |
| Problem solving | Creative problem solving, outcome recognition, and the identification of appropriate strategies and procedures, are encouraged and assessed across the duration of the module |
| Research skills | Appropriate personal research and the development of effective personal research practices, are implicitly encouraged throughout the module, and are assessed through their impact on the development and presentation of the assessed demonstrations. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Communication through non-verbal means. And the presentation of self, confidently and with spatial awareness, through the articulation of physical behaviour. |
| Team work | Group working is addressed across the duration of the module. Practical classes demand the application of skills necessary to conduct successful collaborative activity. The assessed group demonstration relates directly to the development and employment of such skills. |
This module is at CQFW Level 5