DRAM10060

Learning Outcomes:

Be familiar with the role of the body in performance as a marker of meaning.
Be familiar with a range of practitioners reknowned for their work in movement and physical theatre.
Be informed of a range of physical theatre and movement exercises.
Have learned rudimentary skills in collaborative group settings in the creation of performance.
Experience group dynamic demands in creative practices of performance.

Indicative Module Content:

1. Introduction to Module
2. Ensemble Acting: The Role fo the Individual
3. Etienne Decroux: The Physically Articulate Actor
4. Collaborative Processes & Composition
5. Collaborative Processes & Composition and Performances.

The class meets in different groups for 5 week blocks. A student will only need to attend class for the 5 weeks they are enrolled.

The United Nations identified seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as core to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and UCD contributes in general to SDG 4 Quality Education. Further SDGs explored within this module if relevant are listed below. A scale of 1 - 5 indicates the extent to which the SDG is covered.


 

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

This module is experiential and student learning takes place in class where skills in physical theatre and approaches to creating theater collaboratively are taught.

Attendance at all classes is expected and required as students work in groups and build on skills learned across the module in the collaborative creation of original short compositions. Given the run of this course for any student is 5 weeks, missing any class is a substantial absence.

In the final class of the module students present their work in a group presentation which forms a component of the module's assessment.

Additional assessment components include a Learning Journal in which students are required to track their work over the five classes and evaluate and reflect on the module's required readings.
Classes are three hours in duration with occasional breaks, and begin with a physical Warm-Up followed by a testing of required readings in a practice context.
Each class gives time to students to create brief group compositions which students present at the end of class.
Each class finishes with Feedback on students' group compositions and a general review of work undertaken in the class with time also allotted for Q&A.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

As part of UCD's student support, under the Additional Consideration policy, extensions may be available for the following assessments in the module: Assignment (including essay/poster), Portfolio, Reflective Assignment, Report(s), and Individual Project.

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback is on-going in classes. Feedback is given to students in-class after the Group Collaborative presentations. Feedback is given on students' Learning Journal after the assessment process.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.