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Performance Practice Major

Code MAAALL

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About this Major

Focuses on foundational skills necessary for a contemporary career in independent and commercial performance making, and the field of performance making as social practice.

Students will receive training in vocal and movement technique and wellbeing, acquire skills in stagecraft, design and technical theatre, and investigate contemporary performance theories. In a final independent project, students work in small pre-professional companies to conceive, research, rehearse and produce their own performance. Historical context units help students to build up knowledge and understanding of the roots of contemporary performance practice. There is a particular focus on the twentieth century developments in practices, philosophies, and theories of performance, and how those developments inform the current landscape of experimental performance.

Code

MAAALL

Availability & Campus

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Joondalup
Mount Lawley
South West
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Details

Structure

Year 1 - Semester 1
Unit Code Unit Title Credit Points
PSM1007Movement Fundamentals and Wellbeing15
PSM1005Voice Fundamentals and Wellbeing15
Year 2 - Semester 2
Unit Code Unit Title Credit Points
PSM1010Drama to Post-Drama15
PSM1015Stagecraft, Design and Technical Theatre15
Year 2 - Semester 1
Unit Code Unit Title Credit Points
PSM2000Peformance Beyond the Proscenium15
Year 3 - Semester 1
Unit Code Unit Title Credit Points
PSM3000Contemporary Performance in Theory and Practice15
PSM3005Performance Project 1: Creative Development15
Year 3 - Semester 2
Unit Code Unit Title Credit Points
PSM3010Performance Project 2: Production15

For more detailed unit information for this Major take a look at our Handbook. To organise your life for next semester visit the Teaching timetable.

Student handbook

Notes

Important notes

  • Units in the major may involve working on and off campus outside of standard teaching hours.

  • Students apply knowledge acquired to a capstone performance making project undertaken in an industry setting.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Exercise critical thinking and judgement to identify and solve problems during the conceptualisation, prioritisation and realisation of creative ideas in performance making.
  2. Demonstrate a broad and coherent knowledge in depth of the historical and contemporary evolution and methodologies in theatre or film production.
  3. Review, analyse and synthesise knowledge to generate and realise performance paths through the exploration of creative processes and evaluation of performance outcomes.
  4. Successfully communicate knowledge and ideas using innovative techniques in both solo and group performances.
  5. Demonstrate initiative and judgement in planning, problem-solving and decision making during the conception, preparation, management and execution of performances.
  6. Adapt knowledge and skills in diverse collaborative contexts to create public performances.

Career Opportunities

Possible future job titles

Artistic Director, Producer, Project Manager, Performer, Playwright, Theatre Maker, Dramaturge.

This Major can be studied in the following courses

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