Physical Skills

• Value the working environment as a professional space in which you may work playfully and freely to take creative risks. • Discover autonomy over your process so that you may apply yourself • independently to explore creativity, rigour, adaptability and specificity within your work. • Understand the value of working in abstraction and extended movement to find truth.

How will I learn?

Much of this unit of the Actor Movement module is taught within a workshop environment to facilitate the maximum amount of individual experiential learning as possible. Within this you may work individually, in pairs or small groups, or within the larger ensemble. You will develop your learning through individual participation as well as peer observation and analysis. You will also take part in group discussions of research, observations and connections to previous work.

How will I be assessed?

The assessment within this unit is based on your engagement with process as opposed to assessment of a specific performance. You will be formatively assessed throughout the module in relation to the assessment criteria for the module. There may be more formal sharings of process to the wider group which may contribute to the assessment process. The mark awarded for Actor Movement forms 50% of the mark for the Movement module.

What will the assessors be looking for?

Assessment Criteria: • A clear connection between intention and physical action. • Imaginative, organic and inhabited responses to internal and external stimuli. • Specificity and ownership of physical choices. • Ensemble awareness and generosity through play and collaboration • Integration of sound, breath and text with physical form. • Commitment to physical transformation. • Ability to physically and actively listen to another actor in the space. • Preparedness to explore emotional truth in extended movement.

Tutor: Visiting practitioners Contact hours: 31.5 Timetable: 1 x 1.5 hr class a week, Autumn and Spring

Outline

In this unit you will develop core strength, flexibility, co-ordination, stamina and spatial awareness. You will begin to recognise habitual movement patterns and then work to broaden your range of movement. Rhythm, dynamics, alignment, use

of space, clarity of movement will all be explored. The aim of the unit is to make you as physically articulate and specific as possible and allow you to inhabit physical choices with confidence and without self-consciousness. You will work with a variety of methodologies which may include Suzuki, Tai Chi, Yoga, Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, Pilates, Feldenkrais and Alexander Technique.

What will I be expected to achieve?

On successful completion of the module you will be expected to be able to: Skills • Develop and extend your existing physical abilities in respect of stamina, core strength and flexibility. • Ground yourself in the space. • Identify habitual modes of moving and extend beyond them. • Take ownership of all physical choices. • Use space using different qualities of movement. • Make specific physical choices with clear movement pathways.

Knowledge and understanding • Understand your own movement patterns and move beyond them. • Understand how to use dynamics and space to expand physical choices. • Know the importance of core strength and flexibility to enable you to be as available as possible for any impulse you need to connect to. • Know how to use the space in relation to another actor.

Values and Attitudes • Work with trust, generosity, openness and resilience as a collaborative performer within an inclusive ensemble. • Value the working environment as a professional space in which you may work playfully and freely to take creative risks. • Discover autonomy over your process so that you may apply yourself independently to explore creativity, rigour, adaptability and specificity within your work. • Value working in abstraction and movement extension to better understand how your own body moves.

How will I learn?

Much of this unit of the Movement module is taught within a workshop environment to facilitate the maximum amount of individual experiential learning as possible. Within this you may work individually, in pairs or small groups, or within the larger ensemble. You will develop your learning through individual participation as well as peer observation and analysis. You will also take part in group discussions of research, observations and connections to previous work.

How will I be assessed?

The assessment within this unit is based on your engagement with process as opposed to assessment of a specific performance. You will be formatively assessed throughout the module in relation to the assessment criteria for the module. There may be more formal sharings of process to the wider group which