School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Physical Theatre - Physical Performance 1
  • Unit Code

    PAM2111
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Aine WHELAN

Description

By exploring different movement techniques, the basis of the work is a physical, non-psychological approach to performance and acting: acting from the outside in. The course taps into the rich, internal, imaginative world of the actor; from working with the "film" running in our head, to using external imagery, such as paintings and photographs.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PAM3111, PMA2005

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Be familiar with the term: "non-verbal communication".
  2. Connect Body and Mind. Connect Body and Emotions. Develop awareness and observational skills: of self and others. Understand equilibrium and "crisis" in physical and psychological sense.
  3. Develop awareness of the body in space - stretching limitations, taking risk, revealing fears and unlock hidden capacities.
  4. Explore shape/posture, gestures and dynamics in solo and group performance.
  5. Learn a wide range of application of isolation and co-ordination.

Unit Content

  1. Emotions: Breathing technique. Psycho-physiological approach.
  2. External and internal imagery. Character: the external image. Asian theatre: the internal image.
  3. In group and solo: the meaningful use of space and time.
  4. Mask: neutral and expressive mask. Mask making.
  5. Non-verbal Communication.
  6. Physical exercises for developing muscles strength, flexibility and balance. Mental exercises for developing imagination and risk taking.
  7. The body in crisis: posture, gesture, movement rhythm

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops, lectures, audio-visual resources

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationAssessment is continuous and is based on the objectives of the unit40%
PresentationResearch ? presentation30%
JournalJournal30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Physical Theatre - Physical Performance 1
  • Unit Code

    PAM2111
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Aine WHELAN

Description

By exploring different movement techniques, the basis of the work is a physical, non-psychological approach to performance and acting: acting from the outside in. The course taps into the rich, internal, imaginative world of the actor; from working with the "film" running in our head, to using external imagery, such as paintings and photographs.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded PAM3111, PMA2005

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Be familiar with the term: "non-verbal communication".
  2. Connect Body and Mind. Connect Body and Emotions. Develop awareness and observational skills: of self and others. Understand equilibrium and "crisis" in physical and psychological sense.
  3. Develop awareness of the body in space - stretching limitations, taking risk, revealing fears and unlock hidden capacities.
  4. Explore shape/posture, gestures and dynamics in solo and group performance.
  5. Learn a wide range of application of isolation and co-ordination.

Unit Content

  1. Emotions: Breathing technique. Psycho-physiological approach.
  2. External and internal imagery. Character: the external image. Asian theatre: the internal image.
  3. In group and solo: the meaningful use of space and time.
  4. Mask: neutral and expressive mask. Mask making.
  5. Non-verbal Communication.
  6. Physical exercises for developing muscles strength, flexibility and balance. Mental exercises for developing imagination and risk taking.
  7. The body in crisis: posture, gesture, movement rhythm

Additional Learning Experience Information

Workshops, lectures, audio-visual resources

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ParticipationAssessment is continuous and is based on the objectives of the unit40%
PresentationResearch ? presentation30%
JournalJournal30%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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