Welcome to MYP5 Drama!
The first unit you will study this year is 'Physical Theatre' - a collaborative devised project. Physical theatre is an umbrella term, used to describe the use of movement in performance, usually in a contemporary context. Some famous companies using physical theatre include Frantic Assembly, Kneehigh Theatre and Gecko. During the unit you will learn all about their approaches to devising theatre, use some of their most popular exercises in your own work, use a range of creative thinking strategies and respond to your own work and the work of others. You will be assessed through a variety of both summative and formative tasks. After you have explored some of the work of Frantic and Gecko in class, and experimented with a range of physical theatre approaches, you will begin to devise your own piece of performance work, inspired by a given starting point chosen from this list. |
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Some other devising companies to explore...
Kneehigh Theatre - http://www.kneehigh.co.uk/ Tangled Feet - http://www.tangledfeet.com/the-company/ Paper Birds - http://www.thepaperbirds.com/ DV8 - http://dv8.co.uk/ Theatre du Pif - http://www.thtdupif.com/about/about.html Alice Theatre Laboratory - http://www.alicetheatre.com/home.html |
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