Course content
In 2024 this course is delivered as a fully on campus course. See Teaching Format for further details.
The teaching material will introduce students to strategies and techniques in which to perceive theatrical performance in the contemporary context.The course offers opportunities for practical and theoretical engagement with performance, enabling students to better understand performance discourses through practical work, while also offering skills to reflect on their practice in a theoretical way.
The teaching material is framed around two core elements: Devised Performance and Performance Studies. Practical exploration of these elements occurs in workshops, initially through tableau, chorus, improvisation, and structured play, leading towards realised performances in the programme's theatre studios.
Course learning objectives
Students who pass this course should be able to:
Recognise and demonstrate a range of devised performance forms
Apply practice-based research approaches to creative work
Demonstrate the relationship between performance studies discourse and devised performance through group and solo performance projects
Contribute to a productive group dynamic in a range of collaborative activities
Describe how performances express critical ideas about identity, culture and politics in contemporary society
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The Use of Te Reo Māori for Assessment Policy
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington values te reo Māori. Students who wish to submit any of their assessments in te reo Māori must refer to The Use of Te Reo Māori for Assessment Policy - PDF 134kb
He mea nui te reo Māori ki Te Herenga Waka. Ki te pīrangi koe ki te tuhituhi i ō aro matawai i roto i te reo Māori, tēnā me mātua whakapā atu ki te kaupapa here, The Use of Te Reo Māori for Assessment Policy - PDF 134kb
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