James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2004

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TH1520:06

Acting 1B

Townsville

HECS Band 1

240 hours practicals. Semester 2.

Available to BT students only.

Staff:

Mr B Slivkin.

This subject further develops the students' fundamental skills of acting and responding, beginning and developing improvisation, concentration and spontaneity, non verbal and verbal improvisation, building a character in improvisation and building a performance from improvisation. Approaches to rehearsal process, intentions and objectives, scene study, text analysis and performance exercises, being in the moment, detailed character work, scene presentation.

Learning Objectives:

to introduce students to non verbal and verbal improvisation techniques as a basis for character building in the rehearsal process.

Assessment by presentations (40%); rehearsal process (60%).