blog guidelines

You have to complete an evaluation of your performance across all three performances. When you are writing about your evaluation of your performance across the three performances you must analyse, evaluate & support your statements with well chosen examples.  

 

 

 

1.        Be able to undertake a performance role for a live audience

Physical skills: eg posture, alignment, coordination, balance, flexibility, strength, ability to reproduce action/dynamic/rhythmic/spatial content accurately, movement memory, awareness of and relationship to other performers, use of posture, expression, gesture, manner, imitation.

Vocal skills: eg tone, control, inflection, projection, register, particular style, vocal characterization, modulation, timing, clarity, audibility, accent, dynamics, breathing, use of pause, pace, pitch, dialect and accent.

Acting skills: eg emotional range, use of energy, interaction with other performers, gesture, timing, character journey, characterisation, subtext, learning lines

 

 

 

2.        Be able to interpret performance material for an audience

Interpretative skills: eg projection, phrasing, musicality, expression, use of space, focus, emphasis, facial expression, vocalisation, characterisation, personification, conceptualisation, response to the material.

Style: eg realism, naturalism, surrealism, expressionism

Public performance venues: eg main stage, studio theatre, arts centre, concert hall, touring venue.

Staging styles: eg three sides

 

 

 

3.        Be able to perform a role, communicating meaning to an audience

Perform a role: eg acting

Communication: eg focus, control, project, adaptability, response, phrasing, use of pause, use of stillness/movement, dynamics, breathing, use of gesture, use of space, relationship with visual and/or aural elements, use of properties, costumes, masks, performance control.

Investment: eg commitment in performance, interaction and response, direct audience address, use of emotional range, coherence and consistency of role, relationship with the audience, synthesis of character or role work and technique.

 

 

 

4.        Be able to work with discipline within an ensemble.

 

Discipline: attendance; timekeeping; learning material eg lines, choreography, blocking, as required; keeping to schedules; warm-ups.

Pre-performance conventions: health and safety checks; ‘the half’; prop checks; calls to the stage.

Professional manner: listening; contributing; supporting; leading by example; managing emotions; dressing appropriately; responding to changes; correction; feedback

Ensemble: group discussion and negotiation; participation in meetings; focus during technical and dress rehearsal.