Performing Arts

Unit 1 – Introduction to Performing Arts

• Three disciplines of Performing Arts
• Developing singing, acting and dancing skills
• Rehearsal techniques
• Roles and responsibilities of theatre makers
• Current Musical Theatre productions

Unit 2 – Exploring the Performing Arts

• Review of a musical theatre performance
• Characters and plot
• Genre and context
• Style of Musical Theatre
• Creative intention
• Processes involved in the making of musical theatre
• Roles and responsibilities of Musical Theatre makers
• Performance skills

Unit 3 – Developing Skills in the Performing Arts

• Practical skills: Singing, acting, dancing
• Rehearsal technique
• Development of skills
• Evaluating performance skills
• Responding to feedback
• Workshop techniques
• Professional repertoire

Unit 1 – Developing Devising Skills

• Devising from a stimulus
• Acting/ performance skills
• Rehearsal technique
• Bertolt Brecht
• Structure
• Target audience
• Dramatic intention

Unit 2 – Responding to a Brief

• Devising from a stimulus
• Acting/ performance skills
• Rehearsal technique
• Bertolt Brecht
• Structure
• Target audience
• Dramatic intention

Unit 3 – Responding to a Brief – EXAM

• Devising from a stimulus
• Acting/ performance skills
• Rehearsal technique
• Bertolt Brecht
• Structure
• Target audience
• Dramatic intention
• Analysing and evaluating devised work