PERFORMING ARTS

DRAMA ELECTIVE SUBJECT – ONE SEMESTER

Learning Focus

Students selecting this unit will study units on Commedia Dell’Arte and Improvisation. They will devise and develop a variety of performances throughout the semester in pairs or groups. They will work towards developing their acting technique especially in the areas of voice, movement and characterisation. Students will partake in a variety of practical workshops and analyse different dramatic techniques and styles of drama.

Students will be exposed to the range of skills involved in practical stagecraft such as acting, costume design, lighting, multimedia, properties, promotion/publicity, set design, sound and stage management.

Victorian Curriculum Strands

Explore and Express Ideas

• Students will improvise with the elements of drama and narrative structure to develop ideas and explore subtext to shape devised and scripted drama. They will learn to manipulate combinations of the elements of drama to develop and convey the physical and psychologicalaspects of roles and characters consistent with intentions in dramatic forms and performance styles.

Drama Practices

• Students will practice and refine the expressive capacity of voice and movement to communicate ideas and dramatic action in a range of forms, styles and performances spaces.

Present and Perform

• Students will perform devised and scripted drama making deliberate artistic choices andshaping design elements to unify dramatic meaning for an audience.

Respond and Interpret

• Students will evaluate how the elements of drama, forms and performance styles in devisedand scripted drama to convey meaning and aesthetic effect.

Assessment

● Drama journal – reflecting and evaluating performances Costume Designs and Set Design.

● Commedia Dell’Arte Group Performance.

● Monologue (Solo Performance).

● Written reflection on Group and Solo performance.