Module Identifier | PF20420 | ||||||||||||||
Module Title | DEVISING PERFORMANCE 1 | ||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2004/2005 | ||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Ms Jill Greenhalgh | ||||||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||||||||
Pre-Requisite | PF20210 , PF20110 | ||||||||||||||
Course delivery | Lecture | 10 Hours 10 x 1.5 hour practical lectures | |||||||||||||
Practical | 1 Hours 1 weekend (16 hours) | ||||||||||||||
Other | Practical work with third-year students | ||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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to demonstrate an appreciation, understanding and critical application of various theories and practices of dramaturgy
to formulate, develop and realize effectively, conceptual procedures appropriate for conceiving non-textual performance
to demonstrate an ability to work under the direction of fellow students and to function effectively within the social environment of performance
to compose and organize intellectual and dramatic material specifically for live exposition, in the devising of a solo presentation in an academic context
Lecture schedule :
1. Devised performance : definitions and procedures
2. Dramaturgy I : the nature of dramatic material and its accumulation
3. Dramaturgy II : the ordering and composition of dramatic material
4. Dramaturgy III : the modulation of the composed material
5. Composition I : the spatial ordering of performance
6. Site, place and location
7. Composition II : the temporal ordering of performance
8. Text in Performance
9. Scenography and objects : the construction of the performance environment
10. Audience : the role and spatial arrangement of the audience
Criteria for assessment :
i] Performed Essay : in assessing the performed essay the examiner will expect:
- an application of conceptual procedures discussed in the module in the articulation of essay material (25% of the overall performed essay mark)
- imaginative, intellectual reworking of academic argument (25%)
- an understanding of the relationship of the material to the new spatio-temporal context (30%)
- clarity of exposition (10%)
- persuasiveness of presentation (10%)
ii] Performance Etude : in assessing the etude, the examiner will expect:
- Personal contribution: attendance, punctuality and participation in both preparation and presentation (10% of the overall etude mark)
- Assimilation of information: effective enactment of procedures discussed in the module (20%)
- Group work: evidence of group working within the conceptual framework of the project (20%)
- Group achievement: coherent communal statement (40%)
- Individual achievement: effective functioning of the individual within the social environment of performance (10%)
iii] Written Report : in assessing the written report, the examiner will expect:
- reflection upon the relationship between the given theme and the conceptual procedures of the director (20% of the overall report mark)
- effective notation of procedures of devising (20%)
- reflection upon personal functioning within the etude (20%)
- reflection upon group functioning within the etude (20%)
- precise writing within the given parameters of length (20%)
to introduce theories and practices of generating performance that does not rely upon the exposition of dramatic literature
to examine structures of dramaturgy and principles of dramatic and visual composition
to provide conceptual and practical techniques for the creation of performance events
This module is at CQFW Level 5