These units focus on creating, presenting and analysing a devised performance that includes real or imagined characters, based on personal, cultural and/or community experiences and stories. Students examine storytelling through the creation of solo and/or ensemble devised performance/s and manipulate expressive skills in the creation and presentation of characters. Students develop an awareness and understanding of how characters are portrayed in naturalistic and non-naturalistic performance style/s.
UNIT 1 - Introducing performance styles
Students examine storytelling through the creation of solo and/or ensemble devised performance/s and manipulate expressive skills in the creation and presentation of characters.
Learning Activities:
Students record and document the playmaking techniques used in the development of performance work. They develop expressive skills, theatrical conventions and production areas to perform stories and characters to an audience. They study how ‘stories’ can be brought to life through performance; creation of characters; and exploration of social and personal themes.
Key Skills Achieved:
Be able to identify and evaluate use of performance space. They describe the use of theatrical conventions, stagecraft and dramatic elements, as well as analyse the portrayal of stories and characters in a drama performance.
Assessment:
UNIT 2 - Australian identity
This unit focuses on the use and documentation of the processes involved in constructing a devised solo or ensemble performance. Students create, present and analyse a performance based on a person, an event, an issue, a place, an art work, a text and/or an icon from a contemporary or historical Australian context.
Learning Activities:
Using Australia as inspiration students study the use of a range of stimulus material to create a performance based on a person, an event, an issue, a place, an art work, a text and/or an icon from a contemporary or historical Australian context. The area of study also focuses on documenting and recording the play-making techniques and dramatic processes used to shape and develop this performance work.
Key Skills Achieved:
An ability to engage an audience. An understanding of drama terminology to describe, analyse and evaluate the use of theatrical conventions, performance style/s, and dramatic elements in a drama performance.
Assessment:
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