Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313879 Theatre Studies | OT | 0 | 1 |
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The module consists of the preparation of an actor-directing project that will be tested through various practical work sessions with professional actors. The objective is to provide the student with advanced references relative to the methodologies with which to realise researches and practical works in the field of the creative processes connected to theatre performance. The module will start with an introduction on staging theory and its creative processes. From this ground, the module will develop a stage-directing laboratory with a special focus on the key relation between the actor’s craft and the defining of the staging of performance. The work will revolve around the investigation and reflection on efficient methodologies. The teacher will give support in the class, providing possible theoretical and practical tools.
The laboratory dynamic is eminently theoretical, although there will be a focus on some practical elements. Students will be challenged with many exercises that will enable the teacher to respond to many theoretical aspects that may arise throughout the course.
The course is structured as follows:
The professor will propose a short theatre text that will be analysed deeply by the students. The objective is that students learn the process of investigation starting from a text and leading eventually to staging a performance and more specifically to directing actors: scene analysis, relation of characters, space, action, conflict, etc.
Students will work in groups (number dependant on the amount of enrolled students). Each working group will analyse the text and will outline the main lines (technical, ethical and aesthetical) for a general staging project. This draft should allow to contextualise the realisation of a specific actor-directing project for a brief staging of a scene of the text that is object of study.
The working process with professional actors will begin with a practical demonstration carried out by the professor, focusing on the usage of concepts and techniques studied earlier, as well as the founding of an effective and creative relation between director and actors. In this first practical phase, the professor will gather, as working elements and practical elaboration to move forward, the contributions from student’s projects that he/she considers more thought-provoking and appropriate, always with an experiential and verification aim.
In a second practical phase, each group will dispose of a certain amount of time (established according to the number of participants) with professional actors, that will allow them to experiment with ways to communicate the project to the actors, to verify that the project is sufficiently clear and established and to probe that it effectively produces a creative and effective outcome in the initial dynamics of a rehearsal process. This second phase will develop always with the support of the professor, who will supervise the process and will connect the practical work to the theoretical concepts and to the technical tools studied prior to the practice.
Finally, the professor will ask students for an individual reflection on the process of elaboration of an actor-directing project, the results of the first steps of their practical verification and an assessment of its possible development in a future creative project.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Master classes/exhibitions, resolution of exercises, classroom practices | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 2, 6, 5, 4, 7, 8, 9, 3, 10 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Cooperative learning, debates, presentation of practical work, tutorials | 60 | 2.4 | 1, 2, 6, 5, 4, 7, 8, 9, 3, 10 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading articles or texts of interest, personal study | 60 | 2.4 | 1, 2, 6, 5, 4, 7, 8, 9, 3, 10 |
A. Practical exercises to be realized by students.
1. Staging project in groups according to the material that the teacher provides.
2. Personal re-elaboration of the actor-directing and staging projects, following the analysis and projection criteria studied throughout the course and its practical applicability: hypothesis for the research and the future development of the creative process.
B. General Aspects
Parting from the principal that it is a continued evaluation, certain aspects will be taken into account:
- Attendance (80% minimum in order to be evaluated), following-up and participation in the course.
- Actor-directing project in-group and practical work (40%)
- Individual contributions to the conceptual reflection on the different methodologies concerning actor directing during class (20%)
- Delivery of the individual actor-directing project (40%), and the hypothesis for the development of the creative process concerning the staging of the project. Presentation. Expression. Comprehension and correct use of the concepts worked upon. Suitability and comprehension of the used processes and analysis methods. Internal coherency of the presented staging and analysis proposals.
ADDITIONAL REMARKS
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Attendance and participation in the classroom | 40 % | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 6, 5, 4, 7, 8, 9, 3, 10 |
Attendance at tutorials | 30 % | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 6, 5, 4, 7, 8, 9, 3, 10 |
Delivery of reports and works | 30 % | 0 | 0 | 1, 2, 6, 5, 4, 7, 8, 9, 3, 10 |
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