Performance

UAC Code: 754603

The Performance major offers subjects leading to a high level of achievement in performance, theatre-making, and production.

Students accepted into performance will undertake studies in:

• Acting

• Movement

• Singing and speech

• Dramaturgy, history and theory

• Text interpretation

• Contemporary performance techniques.

Students specialising in production will undertake studies in:

• Lighting

• Sound

• Stage management

• Production management

• Producing and professional practice

• Dramaturgy, history and theory.

Classes addressing all aspects of performance and production aim to provide students with the basic professional skills for entry into the performance industries.

The course is primarily practice-based and offers many opportunities to work with professional artists and on the creation of contemporary theatre works, however, the course also emphasises theory and history as essential to the development of informed and self reliant practitioners.

In first year, students acquire competencies in theatre-making with an emphasis on collaboration and ensemble practice. Each semester culminates in a performance.

In second and third year, students further develop their skills in group-based performance across practical and theory classes with an emphasis on contemporary practice. Students will also develop individual acting skills in a range of productions on and off-campus, from text-based, conventional theatre to the experimental and avant-garde.

Production students will acquire basic competencies in production and stage management, audio and lighting design and will gain extensive experience undertaking production roles in the School's programme of performances.

Specific Entry Requirements

Acceptance is based upon audition or interview (audition for performance applicants; interview for production applicants) and ATAR. Applications close by the advertised deadline and auditions are normally held in late November.

For audition, applicants will be asked to learn and prepare one monologue from materials supplied. Applicants will also be asked to sing one song (own choice) that displays vocal range and ability. At the auditions, applicants will also be assessed on their movement and improvisation skills.

Major Study Program

Subjects		Session	Credit Points
100-Level
PERF102	Studio Practice A	Autumn	6
PERF103	Studio Practice B	Spring	6
PERF120	Performance Skills A	Autumn	6
PERF121	Performance Skills B	Spring	6
Plus 12 credit points of theory:
PERF116	Dramaturgy A	Autumn	6
PERF117	Dramaturgy B	Spring	6
200-Level
PERF202	Studio Practice C	Autumn	6
PERF203	Studio Practice D	Spring	6
PERF220	Performance Skills C	Autumn	6
PERF221	Performance Skills D	Spring	6
Plus 12 credit points of theory:
PERF216	Dramaturgy C	Autumn	6
PERF217	Dramaturgy D	Spring	6
300-Level
PERF302	Studio Practice E	Autumn	6
PERF303	Studio Practice F	Spring	6
PERF320	Performance Skills E	Autumn	6
PERF321	Performance Skills F	Spring	6
Plus 12 credit points of theory:
PERF316	Dramaturgy E	Autumn	6
PERF317	Dramaturgy F	Spring	6

Electives

Single degree Bachelor of Creative Arts students must also include 36 credit points of electives in their degree, of which no more than 18 credit points may be at 100 level. Electives may be selected from the general schedule.

Minor Study Program

Dramaturgy

A minor in Dramaturgy consists of 36 credit points of subjects from the course structure. They include:

Subjects		Session	Credit Points
100-Level
PERF116	Dramaturgy A: Text and Performance	Autumn	6
PERF117	Dramaturgy B: Introduction to Genre and Style	Spring	6
200-Level
PERF216	Dramaturgy C: European Modernism and Performance	Autumn	6
PERF217	Dramaturgy D: Australasian Modernism and Performance	Spring	6
300-Level
PERF316	Dramaturgy E: Comic Traditions and Modes of Performance	Autumn	6
PERF317	Dramaturgy F: Performance and the Avant Garde	Spring	6

Students must take subjects in sequence, beginning Autumn session with PERF116.
Subjects taken as part of a minor cannot be cross-counted into any other major or minor.
Minors do not appear on the testamur but do appear on the transcript.