Voice and Dance Skills for Performance 6

Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The ability to select and design a programme which shows an understanding of technique principles and practices and their application to a specific context will prepare student to develop an informed and intelligent method to sustain their on-going and evolving practice. This will support students to develop a sustainable practice in professional performance based contexts.

Syllabus: Students will be required to specialise in voice or dance, and through regular technique classes and workshops they will continue to study and practice the basic technical principles of both western and world dance and voice traditions and to further study methods of analysing movement and sound and methods of reflective practice in order to develop critical awareness of technique training; they will also complement the reading/singing skills through the learning of musical analytical systems and through the study of non-western notational systems; also, each student will be required to design a technique-training programme to reflect their own specific technical needs and interests.