Student Learning Outcomes 1. Apply fundamental techniques of voice and movement for the stage.
2. Employ text analysis from an actor’s point of view.
3. Perform specific choices to create and perform goal-driven characters.
4. Demonstrate various physical and mental relaxation techniques.
5. Identify internal and external techniques to increase actor’s emotional range.
6. Demonstrate sensory exercises and apply this technique to scene work.
7. Articulate and implement key terminology of modern acting techniques.
8. Begin to develop professionalism and development of a critical eye—practice with giving and receiving peer feedback, adherence to deadlines, memorization, flexibility and coachability.
Course Description Provides students with the opportunity to deepen physical, vocal, imaginative, and collaborative skills to which they were exposed in Beginning Acting. During the course of the semester, students will be introduced to techniques for working on script and character analysis, moment-to moment work, physical transformation, breath work, and truthful playing of the scene.