Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Practical
Workshop
Module Offerings
4519ACT-SEP-PAR
Aims
In this module you will develop a fundamental working knowledge of anatomy and physiology. Engagement with the technical principles of movement will increase your balance, strength, flexibility and co-ordination whilst eliminating habitual tension and working towards notions of neutrality and centring. The module also aims to contribute to a greater understanding of psycho-physical initiatives in Acting I, Acting II and Voice in order to give you the tools and infrastructure to approach and respond to dramatic and creative stimuli.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Distinguish and articulate technical skills in response to creative/dramatic stimuli, utilising practitioner vocabularies
2.
Identify fundamental components of movement and space, and analyse key practitioner frameworks
3.
Demonstrate psycho-physical expression and address the physiological demands of the body
4.
Recognise collaborative working group methods and identify personal risk
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:You will explore key practitioners, theories, analyse space and the fundamental components of movement; weight, tension, effort and rhythm. You will learn to explore and create abstract and ‘everyday’ movement. You will become articulate in the terminology of practitioner and movement vocabularies, understand
Warm up activities will be introduced including the development of focus, concentration, flexibility, fitness, strength, stamina use of isolations and coordination.
A series of workshops will then follow for individual analyses to be undertaken through group work. Classes will focus on the understanding of the individual body in relation to the world around it and to group dynamic, including observation and re-creation, effort, and the idea of release and trust. Psycho-physical (mind/body) coordination, spatial awareness and motor-skills/dynamics through space are the continuing focus through various practices, including body-mind centring. You will also work towards finding a sustainable physical neutral.
As the module develops you will begin to address the body in relation to the audience-gaze, including levels of address, circles of physical focus as well as impulse and response in relation to both abstract and everyday movement, alongside a physical exploration of status. The module will also explore the connections between imagination and the physical inhabiting of the world of the play and the character. This aims to allow the student to utilize psycho-physical awareness in relation to building character and worlds.
Additional Information:Onur Orkut is the module leader (o.orkut@lipa.ac.uk)