Module Identifier PF30720  
Module Title PERFORMANCE IN PRACTICE 1  
Academic Year 2007/2008  
Co-ordinator Ms Jill Greenhalgh  
Semester Semester 1  
Other staff Professor Mike Pearson  
Pre-Requisite PF21420 , PF21220  
Assessment
Assessment TypeAssessment Length/DetailsProportion
Semester Assessment Practical Group Presentation: A fully-realised performance of 45 minutes duration minimum. The performance will be assessed jointly by two members of staff in consultation with the guest practitioner  60%
Semester Assessment Contribution to Development Process  40%

Learning outcomes

THIS IS A CORE MODULE

Typically, upon completion of the module, the student will be able to:

to review and consolidate ? and through practical application extend and present - their understanding of procedures of devising performance
to put into practice, in an ordered and meaningful way, the methodological and representational principles of devising performance introduced in previous modules whilst researching and developing new skills appropriate to the arena of exposition
to demonstrate an ability to work effectively and co-operatively in a communal situation
to accept responsibility for self and peer group management and functioning within a creative situation


Aims

The aim of this module is:

to put into practice the principles and techniques of devising performance introduced in previous semesters.
to conceive, develop, rehearse, produce and present a full-length performance to a given theme at a specified site.

Content

This module is a production module. The process of developing and staging the work will be guided through seminars and working sessions and will be subject to continuous monitoring. The end result will be a group project conceived, produced and performed in relation to a given theme or body of material at a specific site or location. The development process will be subject to continuous monitoring through occasional viewing sessions, meetings, seminars, and feedback/advice sessions.
The module will be part-supervised by professional practitioners

Criteria for assessment :

Practical Group Presentation : in assessing the performance production, the examiners will expect:
- effective employment of the dramaturgical procedures examined in previous modules (20% of the overall mark)
- effective articulation and embodiment of spatio-temporal procedures examined in previous modules (20%)
- effective embodiment of the thematic material (20%)
- effective fulfilment the production brief (20%)
- effective group functioning (20%)

Transferable skills

Group organisation and functioning
Project design and completion
Self management as part of group functioning

Reading Lists

Books
** Recommended Text
Barker, Clive (1977) Theatre Games Methuen
Bennett, Susan (1977) Theatre Audiences Routledge
Boal, Augusto trans. Adrian Jackson (1992) Games for Actors and Non-Actors Routledge
Calle, Sophie. [translated by Charles Penwarden] (2004) Exquisite pain Thames & Hudson
Etchells, Tim. ((1999)) Certain Fragments Routledge
Fairbrother, Trevor (1991) Robert Wilson's Vision Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Goldberg, RoseLee. ((1988)) Performance Art: from Futurism to the present Thames and Hudson
Hill, Leslie, Paris, Helen. ((2004)) The Guerilla Guide To Performance Art Continuum International Publishing Group
Hill, Leslie. ((2001)) Guerilla performance and multimedia Continuum
Mitter, Shomit (1992) Systems of Rehearsal Routledge
Sandford, Mariellen R. (ed) (1995) Happenings and Other Acts Routledge
Scutzman, Mady (1993) Playing Boal Routledge
Sloane, Sarah. ((2000)) Digital fictions : storytelling in a material world Ablex Pub.
Spolin, Viola (1983) Improvisation for the Theatre Northwestern University Press
** Supplementary Text
Barker, Clive Theatre Games Eyre Methuen 0413453804
Bennett, Susan Theatre Audiences edition 2r.e. . Routledge 0415157226
Boal, Augusto Games for Actors and Non-Actors Routledge 0415061555
Fairbrother, Trevor Robert Wilson's vision Museum of Fine Arts 0810939592
Mitter, Shomit Systems of Rehearsal Routledge 0415067847
Spolin, Viola Improvisation for the Theater edition 3r.e.of "Improvisation for the Theater" . Northwestern U.P. 0810112825
Happenings and Other Acts Routledge 0415099366
Playing Boal Routledge 0415086086

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6