Module Identifier | PF21420 | ||||||||||||||
Module Title | DEVISING PERFORMANCE 1 | ||||||||||||||
Academic Year | 2006/2007 | ||||||||||||||
Co-ordinator | Ms Jill Greenhalgh | ||||||||||||||
Semester | Semester 2 | ||||||||||||||
Other staff | Dr Heike Roms, Professor Mike Pearson | ||||||||||||||
Pre-Requisite | PF21220 | ||||||||||||||
Course delivery | Practical | ||||||||||||||
Assessment |
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1. To identify and employ conceptual procedures appropriate for conceiving non-textual performance.
2. To demonstrate an awareness and critical understanding of various theories and practices of dramaturgy.
3. To demonstrate an awareness and critical understanding of compositional procedures involved in writing for modes of performance other than those of dramatic dialogue.
4. To compose and organise intellectual and dramatic material specifically for live exposition within an academic context.
The module is structured and delivered across three elements:
1. A series of lectures and classes, timetabled biweekly, across the first five weeks of the semester.
2. Participation in a collaborative performance process, led by 3rd year Performance Studies students.
3. Development and presentation of assessed submissions
1. To identify and employ conceptual procedures appropriate for conceiving non-textual performance.
2. To demonstrate an awareness and critical understanding of various theories and practices of dramaturgy.
3. To demonstrate an awareness and critical understanding of compositional procedures involved in writing for modes of performance other than those of dramatic dialogue.
4. To compose and organise intellectual and dramatic material specifically for live exposition within an academic context.
These classes will be followed by a weekend workshop, during which students will be involved in the realization presentation of short performance etudes; working closely with 3rd year Performance Studies students: These 'études' being conceived by students from PF30520 Devising Performance 2.
Students will then develop a conceptual group project for presentation and assessment.
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 submissions. | ||
Communication | The individual student's ability to articulate and communicate their ideas and opinions is developed and encouraged across all aspects of the module, and the assessment forms recognise effective communication across written, 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. | ||
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 project relates directly to the development and employment of such skills. | ||
Information Technology | Skills of information handling are exercised through the conduct of research, presentation processes, and the collation of materials, within both assessed submissions, and are recognised in the assessment of those submissions. | ||
Application of Number | This element is not assessed. | ||
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. | ||
Subject Specific Skills | The generation and ordering of intellectual and dramatic material in contexts outside either the play script or the auditorium; group creation, organisation and presentation; textual composition; and the organisation of alternative sites of exposition. |
This module is at CQFW Level 5