NM3702 - Performance - Image

Credit points:	03
Year:	2009
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Creative Arts

Available to All Students

Students will research selected playwrights and theatre practitioners whose theatrical praxis is essentially imagist. Playwrights will include, Samuel Beckett , Sarah Kane and Suzan Lori-Parks. The subject will also include a detailed study of theatrical landscaping in the works of Jan Fabre, Pina Bausch, Robert Wilson, and Robert Le Page. Students will analyse and research the theatrical dynamics of repetition, pause, silence and the moving tableau to create their own imagist performance piece within the studio environment .

Learning Outcomes

• ability to analyse contemporary plays within a social, political and historical context;
• fundamental experience at exploring the physical properties of texts;
• ability to realise performance text within the framework of a rehearsed reading of selected scenes in any set texts the ability to apply theoretical paradigms to selected texts.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to manage future career and personal development;
• The ability to read complex and demanding texts accurately, critically and insightfully;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences;
• The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 27-Mar-2009
Coordinator:	Professor Ryan Daniel
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours workshops/Seminars
Assessment:	performance project (40%); essays (20%); seminar research paper (20%); workshop tasks (20%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.