Dramatic & Expressive Art

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Course Notes

Our work is intended to help students gain trust and confidence and to overcome personal inhibitions. Students are encouraged to extend their powers of concentration. Empathy with others and sensitivity to needs, moods and emotions are developed as students work in co-operation with others.

Our objectives are to develop

Spatial awareness		Physical control
Sense of trust in others		Imaginative response
Co-operative group work		The confidence to work in role
Communication skills through storytelling/role play.
Sensitivity to the world around us.

Schemes of work (based mainly on storytelling, enabling students to play simple roles); to give understanding of the dramatic form through role play and the study of text.

1. 6-weeks intro. course		2. Mime
3. Beowulf		4. History of the Theatre
5. Pantomime		6. Study of whole play to meet literacy target
7. Stage Fighting		8. Desert Island

Sessions will include appropriate warm-up activities for physical and mental alertness, and concentration.