Performance - Acting

Musical Theatre Performance Presentation (Dance Focus)

Performance - Musical Theatre

Dance
Across all areas of study students will explore and develop the core skills of dance and dance training: 
Centre work/ Barre, floor work, travelling, sequences and combination Postural alignment, placement and centring principles
Extension, flexion and suppleness in the body 
Control, strength and precision in movement Use of weight and space in relation to tasks 
Musicality- Rhythm, timing, speed and dynamic range 
Expression and artistry
Movement and muscle memory

Jazz 
Jazz Dance techniques will be developed through exploring the work of the principle exponents of the discipline. The students will be asked to further develop theatricality, expressions, strength and flexibility. Jazz dance will be developed through an exploration of dynamics, isolations, fast paced sequences and rhythmic patterns. The work will be developed through the intentions and choreographic approaches of various creative practitioners reflective of concert and theatre jazz dance, and commercial Jazz dance forms.

Ballet 
Ballet is considered the foundation of the students dance training. Building from their prior studies students will explore more complex technical and expressive elements of classical dance technique. The students will explore the technical use of the movement vocabulary of ballet, with the emphasis continuing on postural alignment, correct placement, musicality, flexibility and fitness.

Acting Technique
Stanislavski technique – through weekly tutor led workshops students will further develop their understanding of their relationship to acting technique. Within the module students will developing an expansion and deepening of acting technique through scene study exploring for example - contemporary texts and Heightened Text Project and develop their approaches to the implicit meaning and the directorial clues embedded within the text.

Acting and Dance for Musical Theatre - 5506IABCPD

Acting and Dance for Musical Theatre

Demonstrate an analytical understanding of their own processes as an actor and the growing ability to apply these to increasingly diverse contexts and roles.

Apply an advanced level of practical skill in the movement vocabulary, technique, creative and expressive analysis of practices of Jazz dance and dance for musical theatre dance.

Analyse and apply appropriate acting techniques when interrogating and performing contemporary text.

Apply the ability to integrate song / musical theatre performance into dance sequences.