PERFORMANCE FUNDAMENTALS - 2023/4
Module code: APP1001
Module Overview
This module aims to develop the skill base of the creative practitioner in acting, singing, dance, music, movement and voice. Across Level 4 students will study practical skills in studio based group classes. Students will encounter and explore the application and integration of core technical skills. This module begins a process of the individual questionning how they relate to the world around them whilst introducing the core acting fundamentals that underpin the programme. Students will engage with the rudiments of music, voice and singing and undertake dance and movement training designed to develop the experiential, expressive and analytical skills of the creative individual. Students will be guided to utlise a journal to document and reflect upon their learning journey. This course promotes enterprise and entrepreneurship as well as collaborative thinking. These values help students to imagine their own models for social sustainability within the performing arts industry.
Module provider
Guildford School of Acting
Module Leader
DAVIDSON Andrew (GSA)
Number of Credits: 30
ECTS Credits: 15
Framework: FHEQ Level 4
Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A
Overall student workload
Independent Learning Hours: 60
Tutorial Hours: 24
Practical/Performance Hours: 216
Module Availability
Year long
Prerequisites / Co-requisites
N/A
Module content
Each teaching block, students will undertake weekly practical studio based two hour classes in the following disciplines:
• Acting
• Group Singing/Music
• Movement and Dance
• Voice
The final week of each teaching block will be given over to group tutorials in each discipline, to enable student and tutor joint reflection and action planning.
Assessment pattern
| Assessment type | Unit of assessment | Weighting |
|---|---|---|
| Practical based assessment | Continuous Assessment | 100 |
Alternative Assessment
N/A
Assessment Strategy
The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate a practical evidence of a developing methodology as a creative practitioner.
Thus, the summative assessment for this module consists of:
• Continuous assessment of technical classwork
Formative assessment
Continuous formative assessment occurs in every class and students will be guided to understand and recognise formative verbal feedback in addition to formal written feedback as essential to their development and learning journey.
Feedback
These are practical assessments that provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate and receive feedback continually, verbally, from teachers, from peers and of self as directed. Students receive informal and formal verbal and written feedback and also benefit from personal tutorials/feedback panels where this feedback can be discussed after reflection and grading has taken place. Formal feedback will be published via SurreyLearn by a published date within three teaching weeks.
Module aims
- This module aims to equip the student with an understanding of the core technical performance techniques encountered on the programme and to work to the following programme aims:
To train and develop practitioners with high order creative skills in a broad range of artistic situations - To facilitate the acquisition and development of vocal and physical techniques, skills and universal vocabularies inherent within the creative industries
- To enable experiential understanding of theatre and drama, adding to it a level of critical awareness and analytical ability which will enrich practice and extend potential, as interpreters, facilitators and creators
Learning outcomes
| Attributes Developed | ||
| 001 | Knowledge and understanding of safe and integrated technical practice | K |
| 002 | Critically and practically develop technically skilled performance within diverse contexts and scenarios | C |
| 003 | Critically analyse and evaluate personal professional practice within the collaborative creative process | C |
| 004 | Apply technical skills required in the creative collaborative process | C |
| 005 | Demonstrate discipline and consistency in a professional context | P |
| 006 | Integrate an embodied understanding of creative risk taking within personal practice | T |
Attributes Developed
C - Cognitive/analytical
K - Subject knowledge
T - Transferable skills
P - Professional/Practical skills
Methods of Teaching / Learning
The learning and teaching strategy is designed to:
• Enable active, experiential engagement with core practical technical performance skills
• Enable the articulate, reflective practitioner
Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.
Reading list
https://readinglists.surrey.ac.uk
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Other information
GSA delivers its provision across three teaching blocks, within the University of Surrey’s existing semester structure.
Programmes this module appears in
| Programme | Semester | Classification | Qualifying conditions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied and Contemporary Theatre BA (Hons)(YEAR LONG) | Year-long | Compulsory | A weighted aggregate mark of 40% is required to pass the module |
Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2023/4 academic year.