Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will have:
- Develop and evolve the material from previous semesters by delving deeper into physical theater techniques.
- cultivate the relationship between movement, respiration, sound and speech.
- develop the ability to accurately create and perform choreography, acrobatics and theatrical activities
Course Content (Syllabus)
In Movement III students continue to explore, broaden their horizons and improve their relationship to space, shape, time, rhythm, energy and gravity using physical theater and dance techniques. Students activate their bodies and imagination while realizing the organic relationship between movement, breath, sound and speech. Students approach monologues, excerpts from plays, poems and improvised texts from a physical standpoint; exploring the possibilities of expression, live presence and communication within the group. This semester students will create choreography and do scene work based on time, space and gravity as experienced in dreams.
All levels of the Movement courses (I-IV) contain exercises which focus on improving physical fitness (strength, flexibility, stamina) accompanied by games that foster trust, readiness, rhythm, expression, and awareness aimed at sparking the imagination.
Description
Video projection: Excerpts from the following plays: DV8, Pina Bausch, Odin theater, Gardzienice, Anne Teresa DeKeersmaker, Alain Platel, Vim Vandekeybus, Shasha Waltz, Jasmine Vardimon, Akran Khan, Butoh etc.
Additional bibliography for study
1. Cynthia I. Novack «Sharing the dance»
3. Alison Hodge «Twentieth Century Actor Training», Routledge ,1999
4. Nicole Potter, «Movement for Actors » , Allworth Press, 2002
5 Roth Zaporah «The improvisation of presence», North Atlantic Books, 1995
6. Αντωνέν Αρτώ «Το θέατρο και το είδωλό του» Δωδώνη
7. Εουτζένιο Μπάρμπα «Θέατρο, μοναξιά, εξέγερση» Κοάν 2001
8. Allain Paul «Gardzienice: Polish Theater in Transition » Harwood 1997
9. Σοάμι Σατυανάντα Σαρασουάτι « Ασάνα, Πραναγιάμα, Μούντρα, Μπάντα»