There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

Your work in this module will consist of a series of classes and practical workshops in voice, movement and acting designed to test and strengthen vocal, physical and imaginative skills. All of the Voice and Movement modules are designed to enhance and support the practical work you will be doing elsewhere within the trimester (such as Classical Text Performance) and give you physiological knowledge of your own voice and its safe use. A variety of approaches will be employed with the aim of freeing and enhancing the voice, promoting physical stamina and ease, and stimulating and encouraging imagination and risk-taking. Along with various improvised exercises, you will be working with short texts and excerpts. These exercises will teach you to create and embody different dramatic situations, contexts, narratives and characters. You will undertake exercises that require the ability to identify and exploit the dramatic potential in texts. Through these exercises you will gain skills in acting techniques by which you can develop your emotional, imaginative and intellectual responses. The overall aim in these workshops will be to help you find strong, free and relatively ‘neutral’ physical and vocal expression and to enhance concentration and imagination in a variety of contexts.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Analyse and synthesise a range of physical, vocal and imaginative approaches in order to achieve freedom and fluidity of expressive performance.

LO2: Critically articulate and communicate an informed understanding of voice and movement techniques using appropriate professional and disciplinary terminology.

LO3: Apply creativity and originality to evaluate and resolve performance-related challenges, with particular emphasis on vocal and physical practice.

LO4: Apply a range of physical and vocal warm-up and conditioning techniques, demonstrating initiative, autonomy and responsibility in their ongoing use and development.