Actor´s Work and Dance 2Laajuus (15 cr)

Objectives

Actor´s Work:
Students strengthen their acting skills. They familiarize with methodology in textual expression and performace. They have innovation skills and learning skills.

Dance:
Students have improved their dancing technique and body control. Student can accomplish and recognize basic techniques and terminology of dance.

Content

Actor´s Work:
- individual and group exercises
- theory and practise of dramatic expression
- creative problem solving and further development of working methods
- learning to work in projects
- learning to assess and futher develop skills and learning skills
- taking resposibility of the group´s learning and the delivery of knowledge between group members

Dance:
- dance technique
- power and flexibility exercises
- exercises that improve movement memory and coordination
- working independently, in pairs and in groups

Prerequisites

Actor’s Work and Dance 1

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

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)

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)

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 material in movement.

Further information

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