Performance Workshops
Performance Workshops
Black Swan offers a range of performance workshops which are beneficial for students undertaking drama examinations. Each workshop is 2 hours in duration with a maximum of 25 participants. All participants receive a certificate of participation, including the teacher, which can be used towards WACOT professional learning.
Target Audience: High School Drama Students Yrs 10-12
Duration: Two hours
Participant maximum: 25
Where: At your school (no extra charge) or at the State Theatre Centre of WA (room hire charges will apply)
Bookings: Four weeks before the desired date.
Please email alena@bsstc.com.au with a minimum of two possible dates/times that the workshop could be held on. A tutor will be sourced for your workshop who will contact you to organise workshop specifics. You will receive a workshop confirmation from black swan and will need to provide a purchase order number for invoicing.
Cost: $325 ex GST & mileage
ORIGINAL SOLO PERFORMANCE
Curriculum Links: Drama Course Stage 2 and Stage 3 Examinations Part 1
An interactive and practical workshop designed to assist students with this challenging examination task. The workshop will show students how to transform ideas into a dramatic piece and a character. A clear structure is established to enable students to take their chosen character/s on a journey from the beginning of the piece to the resolution. Along the way ideas about performance styles, dramatic elements and stagecraft will be addressed.
SELECTING, PREPARING AND PERFORMING MONOLOGUES
Curriculum Links: Drama Course Stage 2 and Stage 3 Examinations Part 2
A practical and interactive two hour workshop devised to assist students with undertaking the process involved in selecting, creating and presenting a monologue. Our visiting artist will concentrate on a monologue of the school’s choice and will place the monologue in the context of the scene and the play from which it is drawn. Together, students and the artist will identify key lines of dialogue, the climax of the piece and the character’s motivations. Appropriate performance styles and choices are discussed and applied in order to effectively realise the character in performance.
IMPROVISATIONS
Curriculum Links: Drama Course Stage 2 and Stage 3 Examinations Part 3
Improvisation is the art of making stuff up. Actors often get bound to scripts and lost in text interpretation and they forget to create. Improvisation can free the actor to explore characters, narrative and connections. This two hour workshop will unlock the students’ spontaneity, creativity, character generation, scene building, narrative structure and enhance their preparations for their tasks and examinations.
PHYSICAL THEATRE
Curriculum Links: Drama Course Content: Spaces of Performance, Design and Technologies and Management Skills and Processes
Physical theatre is used to describe and mode of performance that pursues storytelling or drama through primary and secondary physical and mental means. There are several quite distinct but indistinct traditions of performance which all describe themselves using the term “physical theatre”, which has led to a lot of confusion as to what the definition of this technique actually is. Classes are constructed based around discovery. Participants will work with in their own boundaries and limitations and beyond their own expectations. Spend time stretching, talking, moving, manipulating objects and each other. Participants will read together, share stories, create drama with and without text. They will observe each other’s work and find what stimulates and drives people to make physical art.
For more information or to book a workshop, please contact:
Alena Tompkins
Black Swan State Theatre Company Education and Community Access Manager
Phone: (08) 6212 9310 Fax: (08) 6212 9318
Email: alena@bsstc.com.au
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