PERF07037 2019 Voice and Movement 3

 Devise and deliver vocal and physical warm-ups that focus on the physical, technical, emotional, and psychic needs of a given role.

Use the body and voice effectively in a creative, imaginative, expressive way, appropriately synthesising training in both voice and movement.

Explore and apply presented physical and vocal principles to create appropriate individual and group responses to creative stimuli and complicity.

Perform with spontaneity, physical, psychic, emotional and vocal clarity, playfulness, awareness of space, dynamic, rhythm, empathy and presence.

Advance their intellectual, emotional and performance competencies through actively changing acquired physical, vocal and psychological habits, reflective journalling and integrating the training process into their professional and personal lives.
 

Apply, compose and evaluate tools of improvisation and compositional devices within the creative process and performance of duet/trio composition study.

Utilize research and appropriate literature to support and extend their knowledge of voice and movement training.

Student-centred strategies for teaching Voice and Movement.

Student learning incorporating aspects as following:

1. Kinaesthetic – motor development (moving and learning)
2. Aesthetic -  personal (artistic) growth
3. Cognitive – intellectual (thinking, perceiving and processing)
4. Psychological – social (feeling and interacting)

100% Continuous Assessment: attendance, observation of student work during the class and performance within the combination of formative feedback during the creative process of project making.

Individual Project: Solo Project and Research Essay. 

Attendance if required. 

The main emphasis on students’ development is driven from:

1.  Creative Improvisation, Contact Improvisation and other related and supportive techniques and fundamentals from Martial Arts, gymnastics and Somatic Practice providing new combinations and cross-fading in given styles. The work is based on:

• explorative ways of working with greater personal authenticity same as partnering and group work to initiate, analyse, examine and attain students’ learning of “creative”, “practicing” and “knowing” body and voice
• physical principles of touch, momentum, shared weight, point of contact, balance and coordination, relaxation and grounding
• developing awareness of physical limits and possibilities, deepening sensory awareness, emotional tone, precision, spontaneity, expanding visual stimuli
• movement phrasing and sequencing, its length, shape, dynamic, quality and rhythm
• Score for Duet Improvisation - Composition Study: use of Chance compositional structure to decide on the order of the performance, applying tools of contact and dance improvisation and other compositional devices.

     2. The voice in performance - strategies for preparation and characterization. Balancing the sound, resonance, articulation and the text, breathing, muscularity of tone from applied consonant and vowel work, appropriate projection through precise placing of word and tone, pitch, intonation, emotional recall, floor work and visualisation, character work, heightened listening and original, creative response to words, emotions, stimuli, working with habits and limitations.

     3. Theoretical framework within the practised topic supporting students' learning.

     4. Integration of voice and movement through continued application.