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 Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
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% |
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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