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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

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  • Unit Title

    Stage Combat

  • Unit Code

    PAM3104

  • Year

    2024

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Jeremy NEIDECK

Description

The introduction to, and development of, basic stage combat skills to enhance the actor's sense of physical awareness and expression.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PAM2104, PAM3102

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate critical and analytical skills in relation to stage combat in performance.
  2. Demonstrate the ability to execute stage combat techniques which are both safe and dramatically effective.
  3. Understand the role of the Fight Director and the importance of having such an individual involved in both training and production.
  4. Utilise the techniques covered creatively in a short, choreographed routine in order to fully realise the demands that stage combat places on the performer and how this can enhance the actor's sense of physical expression.

Unit Content

  1. A variety of warm-up exercises and games which explore the Principles of Stage Combat (e.g. - partnership, trust, balance, line, etc.)
  2. Analysis of a variety of fight scenes from the cinema and videos of live performances.
  3. Basic techniques of armed stage combat (swords being the predominant weapon), such as footwork, parrying, cutting, thrusting, etc.
  4. Basic techniques of unarmed stage combat such as slapping, punching, kicking, grappling, etc.
  5. Exploration of 'Found Weapons'; objects not normally seen as weapons which could be used as such in the appropriate dramatic context.
  6. Preparation and performance of short choreographed routine encompassing both armed and unarmed techniques and a text.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops, lectures, audio-visual resources and seminars.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework 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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
WorkshopWorkshop tasks60%
PerformanceFinal presentation of short choreographed routine40%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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