Movement

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate appropriate, creative use of their voices and bodies to create characters.

Subject: Applying the techniques of Viewpoints to a scene.

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of composition and the 9 elements of Viewpoints by performing group compositions.

Students will demonstrate their ability to interpret and respond to artistic mediums and their understanding of physical viewpoints by creating, rehearsing, and performing a 2-3 minute silent group scene in response to an artistic work.

Students will demonstrate their ability to interpret and respond to artistic mediums and their ability to interact with imaginary things, become objects with their bodies, and express emotions and ideas with their bodies. The will do this by creating, rehearsing, and performing a 3-5-minute silent group scene in response to an artistic work.

Unit Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate character development and exploration by stepping into role as the superhero characters they have created on paper, utilizing tactics and objectives.

Students will demonstrate an understanding of stage combating by performing a choreographed fight.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of nonverbal communication by planning, recording, and presenting silent films.

Students will demonstrate their understanding of The Second Circle, created by Patsy Rodenburg, and the importance of presence in performance by applying presence to diverse situations and performing a Shakespearean Sonnet in Second Circle.

Unit Objective: Students will be able to demonstrate their ability to craft a storyline and convey physicality and emotion by performing an original duo-pantomime scene.

Unit Objective: The student will demonstrate their understanding of non-verbal communication in terms of movement, character, environment, and props by performing a pantomime duo scene.

Objective: The students will demonstrate their understanding of the various elements of musical theatre by putting on a musical theatre review in class.

Objective:Students will be able to explore various movement techniques by creating a music video.

Students will demonstrate their ability to use movement to communicate an idea by participating in a Visual Theatre performance.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their knowledge of and ability to safely fight on stage by creating and performing an unarmed stage fight, submitting a script for the fight that uses the correct terminology, and stating the safety rules of stage combat, entries to their learning log, and a test at the end of the unit. ...

Unit Objective: Students will demonstrate their understanding of the emotional connections between themselves and others by participating in scenes.

Students will be able to perform controlled subtle and exaggerated movement by devising puppet scene using Bunraku Puppets and principles.

Objective: Students will demonstrate their awareness of body movement by performing an observation presentation.