Using voice. body and group work/composition in performanceOrder Description
Drama performance: going to breakfast using technology then walking through the city and someone getting run over because theyre on their phone and then reporting the incident, then redoing the scenario without technology at breakfast.
View: https://www.facebook.com/iris.sun.31/videos/1593667887566335/Essay task:
How was the voice, body and group work communicated in the practical work in class?Describe and analyse examples of voice, body and group work from performances/showings/creative exercises in class . Give an example for each: voice, body and group work. Describe what happened in class. Support this observation with reference to the appropriate readings.Show your knowledge of the relevant theory as covered in this course and how it is illustrated or demonstrated by your examples.
Show how actors and students used their voice, body and group work to communicate character, story, relationships, emotion, etc. Describe what was being communicated and how the performers chose to portray that. Prove why each example is a clear illustration of that particular aspect of the theory.Focus on:
Voice the work of Berry and/or Linklater
Body the work of Laban and/or Lecoq (reading: Murray) and/or Bogart (reading: Landau)
Group work/composition: the work of Oddey and/or Spolin, and/or Bogart
References:
Body:References:
Murray, S 2003, Practical Exercises in Jacques Lecoq, Routledge, London, pp. 127-151
Laban, R 1988, Movement and the Body (Part II), in The Mastery of Movement, Northcote House, Plymouth, UK, pp. 66-75Voice:Berry, C 1973, Vocal Development in The Voice and the Actor, Harrap, London, pp. 11-17.
Linklater, K 1976, How the Voice Works & Why the Voice does not Work in Freeing the Natural Voice, Drama Book Publishers, New York, pp. 6-10, 11-16.
Linklater, K 2007, 2007, Part three: The link to text and acting in Freeing the Natural Voice, (revised edition), Nick Hern Books Ltd, London, pp. 327-355.Group work/composition/improvisation/devising theatre:Landau, T 2000, Source-Work, the Viewpoints and Composition: What are they? in The Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama, ed W B Worthen, Thomson/Wadsworth, Boston, pp. 1182-1190.
Oddey, A 1994, Beginnings : How and Where to Start in Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook, Routledge, London, pp. 24-41.
Spolin, V 1983, Workshop Procedures in Improvisation for the Theater, Northwestern University Press, Evanston, USA, pp. 18-46.