COURSE FREQUENCY:
I teach this class every spring semester
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Theory and practice in movement for the actor to facilitate efficiency of movement patterns and development of characterization skills.
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
In this course we will:
- Develop physical awareness, flexibility, and control.
- Realization of a physicality that is consistently aligned, centered, and grounded, and development of the ability to return to or regain this state of being.
- Increase in the awareness of and ability to release tension patterns that affect the quality and expression of movement, breath support, and characterization.
- Understanding and use of the foundational principles that underlie all movement and that arise from the developmental patterns of human growth - breath support, core support, grounding, dynamic alignment, initiation, sequencing, and body organization, and their roles in creating characterizations.
- Understanding and use of the foundational concepts of movement: intention, function/expression, stability/mobility, exertion/recuperation.
- Development of an expressive range of gesture, movement dynamics, and awareness and use of space, in order to create honest characterizations and drive scenes.
- Engender the ability to translate text analysis, dramaturgy, and character history, values, beliefs, and world-view into physical character.
- Strengthen the ability to play an objective-related action strongly through movement, with or without text.
- Experience a method of movement preparation based in Laban Movement Analysis and Viewpoints.
- Understanding and use of foundational concepts of Movement: Tempo, Duration, Spatial Relationship, Kinesthetic Response, Gesture, Shape, and Repetition and their roles in creating characterizations and theatrical moments.