Unit name | Devised Performance |
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Unit code | DRAM33124 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Professor. Jones |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Theatre |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will explore a range of contemporary performance practices which do not use an already existing play text as their starting point, and investigate appropriate critical, historical and theoretical frameworks within which to analyse key examples as well as the students’ own practice. It will investigate devising strategies, which include text-based improvisation, physical or systems theatre, the use of multi-media, and found or verbatim texts. It will also explore the work of key practitioners, such as Pina Bausch, DV8, Forced Entertainment, Goat Island, Robert Wilson, the Wooster Group. The unit will also develop further creative and practical production skills and understanding towards the making of an original piece of devised theatre.
Aims:
Plus as appropriate to the mode of teaching, that is, the combination of seminar and practice-based workshop and/or presentations:
Seminars, workshops, screenings, as appropriate
Optional units may be taught according one of three models, depending on student numbers choosing the option and resource matters. Unit convenors will decide on teaching mode in consultation with HoE and with students in advance of advertising option year-on-year. Contact hours and assessment details will be mapped to teaching mode, as detailed below.
Model A is a seminar-based unit
Model B combines seminars with workshops encompassing an average 30-hour production period
Model C is taught through workshops encompassing an intensive 60-hour production period
Teachers will assign assessments according to the teaching mode employed.
Model A:
4,000-word essay (50%) + student presentation (25%) + 2,000-word write-up (25%), or equivalent.
OR
Model B:
Essay [3,000 words] (33%) +
Workfile (22%): containing evidence to demonstrate student contribution to workshops / practical exercises; contribution to seminars Presentation/performance (22%) Critical analysis [1,500 words] (22%)
OR
Model C:
Workfile (33%): containing evidence to demonstrate student contribution to workshops / practical exercises; contribution to seminars, preparation & execution of technical production role Presentation/performance (33%) Critical analysis [2,500 words] (33%)