Voice and Dance Skills of Performance 4

Rationale and Purpose of the Module: The development of a broad base of performance skills together with an understanding of their historical origins and the ability to analyse movement will provide the students with a depth of understanding which will extend their opportunities for engagement in professional performance based contexts.

Syllabus: Students will be required to specialise in voice or dance, and through regular technique classes and workshops students will continue to study and practice the basic technical principles of both western contemporary 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, and will also complement the reading/singing skills through the learning of musical analytical and early notational systems.