Performance Elective Syllabus

Instructor:  Mr.Catterton
Date/Time:  Fridays 1:15-2:15

Materials:

• Pencil & note books
• Scripts
• Any props or items relevant to performance

Exercises:

• Rhythm and Energy Passes
• Story Telling
• Animal Exercises
• Articulation and Breath Control
• Physical Awareness and Moving Through Space

Final Project:
Performance

• Content
• Confidence in Performance Ability
• Ownership of Material
• Communication, Volume, Articulation
• Rehearsed Actions
• How will they perform, puppetry? Acting? Dancing? Video?
• Expression

Presentation:

• Group warm up
• Perform
• Feed Back and Self-Critique

Grading:

• Class Participation and Behavior
• Daily Exercises to be completed and presented in class
• Final Project finished and presented

Questions:  As long as it comes from the student and an honest place, there is never a wrong question, and personal answers of opinion are never wrong.

Creativity:  As long as it is an honest expression, it is never incorrect.

September 2008

This year’s Performance Elective will introduce and broaden the student’s familiarity in the various types of performance, i.e. dance, musicals, theater, puppetry, mask work, and multi-media performance (video and sound recordings).  As well as surveying a variety of performance they will be introduced to the fundamentals of developing performance as well as cultivate an awareness in themselves of how they can listen to their natural inner-impulses to create honest expressions, and mold them into performance.

While developing skills and awareness the students will also be instructed on the logistics and basic of stage workings, i.e. stage directions, rehearsal process(es), and warm-up.
 
At the end of the year every student will be involved in a final performance that utilizes all of the elements they learned over the year, and will perform it in front of an invited audience of parents, peers, and possibly the public.

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Performance Elective Syllabus