Faculty of Education and Arts

School: WA Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    The Creative Physical Actor
  • Unit Code

    ACT3002
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit provides a structure for actors to develop original work and work as autonomous, creative physical artists. The actor devises, directs and designs movement with others actors and uses the movement course to construct an approach to text that is visceral, embodied and results in a rich and detailed performance. The actors move with a confident creativity and can construct safe movement sequences that serve and illuminate the texts or productions. The actors also develop a specific physical process for the imaginative realization of a role and can work at a professional level as a creative physical actor.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create a highly detailed theatrical movement performance from a researched response to words with succinct and insightful imagery.
  2. Develop a personal programme for stage work that addresses the specific requirement for production.
  3. Devise an astute movement process and compose with it a sequence that will prepare for a specific monologue.
  4. Direct and create movement sequences.
  5. Engage constructively in critical feedback with directors and peers about one's own and others' work.
  6. Use the Feldenkrais method to attain an advanced understanding of breath, neuromuscular organisation.

Unit Content

  1. Advanced Movement Analysis.
  2. Design and implementation of effective warm up and process for a role.
  3. Feedback, professional conduct and constructive criticism.
  4. Inventing, designing and directing movement.
  5. Transformational physical imagery in response to language.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Movement classes in a studio or theatre, Creative processes to generate movement and choreography for theatre, Small group activities, pair work and solo exercises, Self study with regard to the application of the course to rehearsal and the preparation of a role, Character work developed in class and rehearsal will be performed as part of the production program for audiences over a short season in a theatre and assessed authentically, Sequences will be filmed and peers will reflect on the performance using this recording to provide critical analysis and feedback, Written evaluation.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for performance and/or practical based units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
ExerciseIn Class Exercise
ProjectCreative Practice Project
PerformancePhysical Preparation for Performance / Production

Text References

  • ^ Chekhov, M. (2002). To the actor. London: Routledge.
  • Zinder, D. (2002). Body voice imagination: A training for the actor. New York: Routledge.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: WA Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    The Creative Physical Actor
  • Unit Code

    ACT3002
  • Year

    2015
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

Description

This unit provides a structure for actors to develop original work and work as autonomous, creative physical artists. The actor devises, directs and designs movement with others actors and uses the movement course to construct an approach to text that is visceral, embodied and results in a rich and detailed performance. The actors move with a confident creativity and can construct safe movement sequences that serve and illuminate the texts or productions. The actors also develop a specific physical process for the imaginative realization of a role and can work at a professional level as a creative physical actor.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Create a highly detailed theatrical movement performance from a researched response to words with succinct and insightful imagery.
  2. Develop a personal programme for stage work that addresses the specific requirement for production.
  3. Devise an astute movement process and compose with it a sequence that will prepare for a specific monologue.
  4. Direct and create movement sequences.
  5. Engage constructively in critical feedback with directors and peers about one's own and others' work.
  6. Use the Feldenkrais method to attain an advanced understanding of breath, neuromuscular organisation.

Unit Content

  1. Advanced Movement Analysis.
  2. Design and implementation of effective warm up and process for a role.
  3. Feedback, professional conduct and constructive criticism.
  4. Inventing, designing and directing movement.
  5. Transformational physical imagery in response to language.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Movement classes in a studio or theatre, Creative processes to generate movement and choreography for theatre, Small group activities, pair work and solo exercises, Self study with regard to the application of the course to rehearsal and the preparation of a role, Character work developed in class and rehearsal will be performed as part of the production program for audiences over a short season in a theatre and assessed authentically, Sequences will be filmed and peers will reflect on the performance using this recording to provide critical analysis and feedback, Written evaluation.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for performance and/or practical based units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
ExerciseIn Class Exercise
ProjectCreative Practice Project
PerformancePhysical Preparation for Performance / Production

Text References

  • ^ Chekhov, M. (2002). To the actor. London: Routledge.
  • Zinder, D. (2002). Body voice imagination: A training for the actor. New York: Routledge.

^ Mandatory reference


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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