Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Workshop
Module Offerings
5506IABCPD-SEP-PAR
Aims
The aims of the Module are to enable the student to:
Dance
Develop the core dance technique and performance skills required of a musical theatre performer
with a particular focus on jazz and stage dance. (Supported by studies in Ballet)
Develop skills in muscle memory, musicality and rhythm, and the ability to learn and replicate choreographic material.
Develop an understanding of communicative and expressive potential of dance in the context of musical theatre performance.
Acting
Develop an informed personal approach to acting techniques for an expanded range of forms including more complex and heightened texts.
Develop the ability to use appropriate methodology for the interrogation of a variety of dramatic texts.
Further develop their professional practice as a performing artist to encourage a more pro-active and independent approach to learning.
Further develop their understanding of the importance of collaboration, teamwork, preparation and professional practice for the actor.
Learning Outcomes
1.
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.
2.
Apply the ability to integrate song / musical theatre performance into dance sequences.
3.
Demonstrate an analytical understanding of their own processes as an actor and the growing ability to apply these to increasingly diverse contexts and roles.
4.
Analyse and apply appropriate acting techniques when interrogating and performing contemporary text.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus: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.