Study Guide

Objectives (course unit)

Actor´s Work:
Students have deepen their skills in actor's work and are able to utilize them in productions. Students have innovation skills.

Dance:
Students have improved further their technical skills in dance and their body control. They have an awareness of their own performance in dance.

Content (course unit)

Actor´s Work:
- individual and group exercises in acting
- speech technique
- adopting skills through the exercises and their utilization in practise in the work
- use creativity in problem-solving and further develop working methods
- work in projects

Dance:
- exercises that improve movement memory and coordination
- movement improvisation
- get familiar with different kind of dance techniques
- solo choreography
- solo- and ensemble work

Prerequisites (course unit)

Actor’s Work and Dance 1 and 2

Further information (course unit)

Attendance 80%
Consult your teacher if you can not participate.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

Assessment criterion 1-2, satisfactory
Actor’s Work
Students can empathize and express required professional quality repertoire in a satisfactory level. Their artistic and technique management is satisfactory. Expression and artistic function is not versatile enough. Mastering large entities is adequate.

Dance
Students can perform required professional level choreography moderately. Their artistic and technique expression and body control is satisfactory. Body use in movements is not versatile enough. Technique ja expressive mastering of larger entities is adequate.

Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

Assessment criterion 3-4, good
Actor’s work
Students know and can adapt versatile techniques in their actor’s work. Students can disclose different styles and characteristics. Their expression is moderately diverse and individual, and mastering of larger entities is good.

Dance
Students manage their body performance technically and artistically and disclose different styles and characteristics. Their body control and expression is moderately diverse, and mastering and perceiving of larger entities is good. The presence is good.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

Assessment criterion 5, excellent
Actor’s Work
Students indicate wide knowledge and excellent technical skills, artistic and individual conception in the field of stage expression. They adduce different styles and characteristics particular impressive way. Students have adopted a rich and strong expressive abilities in their actor’s work. They can also create well designed artistic entireties. Students can combine physical, speech expression and actor’s work and they are able to reflect variously character’s thoughts and spirit.

Dance
Students indicate an excellent technical skills, artistic and individual conception in their body performance and movement. They adduce different styles and characteristics particular impressive way. Students have adopted rich and strong expressive abilities and they can execute challenging choreographies and entireties. The presence and the performing is strong and spontaneous. Students can provide their own solo-material in movement.

Assessment scale

0-5