KTB226 Drama Practice: Transformation
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| Unit code: | KTB226 |
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| Prerequisite(s): | KTB126 or KTB102 |
| Equivalent(s): | KTB205 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $1,118 |
| Pre-2021 CSP student contribution | $957 The pre-2021 commonwealth supported place (CSP) contribution amount only applies to students enrolled in a course prior to 2021. To learn more, visit our Understanding your fees page. |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KTB226 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Pre-requisite: | KTB126 or KTB102 |
| Equivalent: | KTB205 |
| Coordinator: | David Megarrity | d.megarrity@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This practice-led, intermediate unit enables you to build and apply skills in collaboratively devising and performing a show. Under the guidance of a director you interpret and transform key formal features of selected iconic practitioners or performances as the starting point for an original show to be performed at the end of semester. Indeed, transformation can be a process of adaptation, repurposing or one of profound re-imagining of content and/or form through research of form and genre, and the development and application of skills in devising, workshop and dramaturgical interrogation.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify and demonstrate knowledge of industry practices and key concepts of craft and critical theory underpinning the construction of collaboratively devised performances.
- Discern, critically analyse, and synthesise aesthetic and practical knowledge discovered through collaborative creative practice.
- Engage productively as a collaborator in the creative process and ensemble performance of a new devised theatre work.
Content
This intermediate unit provides opportunities for practical experience of many of the processes, techniques and strategies in transforming existing content or form into an original production. Under the direction of a teaching director, students in groups will research, analyse and create a short work and then prepare it for live performance. This task includes being cast in a role (acting, management or leadership), attending meetings, workshops, classes and rehearsals, personal research and reflection, group discussion, role preparation, and participation in live performance.
Learning Approaches
Learning in this unit is facilitated through a series of lectures and workshops. In addition there is an emphasis on your individual learning responsibilities, both to yourself and to the group.
Attention and commitment is expected to the whole process of mounting a production, and the actual on-stage acting outcome is considered as only a part of what ‘performance-making’ implies.You will work in medium to small groups, with an assigned facilitator, and will engage in both directed and autonomous workshops and other production activity that will culminate in a short combined season of performance projects. These performances will test and develop your work against immediate audience responses. There will be opportunities for close contact with, and feedback from teaching staff and industry.
Regular meetings during the early part of the semester will be followed by an ‘intensive period’ when activities may be conducted on a daily basis in the final weeks of the semester finishing on, and requiring attendance to mid to late November.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Throughout the progress of workshops and rehearsals, teaching staff will provide feedback to you which will inform all assessments items. It is recommended that you keep a journal/workbook as a record of your discoveries and feedback through the course of your study and as a resource for future performance endeavour.
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
- comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets, both for group work and individual endeavour
- generic comments back to the cohort via QUT Canvas
- criteria sheet grading.
Assessment
Overview
There will be an expectation that you will engage fully in your allocated task for this unit. The assessment is both on the quality of the group’s process and your contribution to it. You will keep a journal throughout the project and will be required to reflect upon that process and identify key personal learning outcomes, both in the development process and the performance outcome.
Performance making requires group collaboration. Permission to be absent from rehearsals will not be given, and none should be sought except on strong medical or compassionate grounds. If you are absent from rehearsals, regardless of the reason, you may be recast if such absence is deemed to impede the work of other students. The unit coordinator reserves the right to withdraw all roles from you if you absent yourself from rehearsals or performances, and you will be deemed to have failed the unit.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Performance
Perform in one or more roles in a collaboratively created performance.
Assessment: Reflective Journal
A progressive documentation of the process of undertaken within the collaboratively creative performance.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Requirements to Study
Requirements
All students and staff who access campus buildings and facilities are required to complete the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction. This must be completed online.
This unit also requires a Tier 2 Health and Safety Induction which is provided by the technician on site in the theatre, workshop or studio. Not all students are required to complete the Tier 2 induction.
Resources
REQUIRED READING/EQUIPMENT
Required reading will be available online.
Students are reminded that proper clothing appropriate for active studio work is required, including closed-in shoes.
Recommended References
Other unit readings and reference material will be available online.
Risk Assessment Statement
For risks associated with using campus buildings or facilities, refer to the Tier 1 General Health and Safety Induction.
As all performance-makers understand, creating a performance potentially carries with it certain physical and/or emotional risks, both in the rehearsal room and in the theatre. Indeed taking risks is an integral component of the art form’s processes. Some rehearsal warm ups and exercises, and some performance events may include physically or emotionally strenuous activities. Managing this risk to ensure working conditions are safe, is always a high priority in the production process. It is therefore extremely important that if you are aware of personal physical or emotional vulnerabilities that make you feel unsafe or at risk in any way, you should immediately inform teaching staff, the director or stage manager, so that your situation can be evaluated and appropriate rectifying action can be taken.
Theatres and other performance spaces are also potentially dangerous places, particularly backstage during performances when low light conditions prevail. You will be warned by the stage manager, the production manager or the director of any specific risks that you will need to be aware of, when your project team first moves in to the theatre. Whenever moving into a new performance space, you should always conduct your own risk assessment, and notify your team or director of any hazards you have personally identified.
Every effort is made by teaching staff to ensure that you work in a safe environment. Conversely you are absolutely expected to follow all safety rules, procedures and directions, and to ensure that you do not put at risk the safety of others, or yourself, or of the highest artistic fulfilment of the project in any way.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO1 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO3 - Work productively as a leader and collaborator in disciplinary and interdisciplinary creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO3