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Pillar 2
Acting and Movement

Acting and Movement courses help students to become professional stage performers. Singers and repetiteurs develop improvising skills and get to know different acting methods; they learn to express themselves through movement and dance. At the end of the programme, students have acquired a range of tools to embody characters and emotions, and to communicate these to audiences.

Movement Coaching

FORMAT
Practice study – collective

CONTENT
The class provides different exercises to learn stage presence through movement and space. Students engage with movement as it relates to one’s own body and that of one’s partner on stage, and are encouraged to be aware of and responsive to one’s surroundings. Finally, the students learn different choreographies, in order not only to learn the movements, but also the technique of observing and analysing, which will enable them to adopt movements more quickly.

EVALUATION
Continuous assessment/Permanent evaluation

Spatial Awareness

FORMAT
Practice study – collective

CONTENT
The course focuses on acting concepts that singers may not have come across such as spatial awareness, spontaneity, interplay, text analysis, taking risks, imagination and abstraction. In this course, students will become aware of the intuitive, naturally rising and subsiding flow of drama, space, body and action. We will train the overall functioning necessary for operatic acting – which requires the singer to be real but also to transcend “everyday-ness”, to be accurate but also spontaneous and in service of drama as well as music.

EVALUATION
Continuous assessment/Permanent evaluation

Acting

FORMAT
Practice study – collective

CONTENT
These classes focus on how the student acts on stage in different situations and exercises. Classes address monologues or scenes with partners, based on text fragments or improvisation situations. We will train to feel more at ease on stage, through working in several situations and in playing together with partners.
Imagination, body posture, movement, language/speech will also be considered during this course.

EVALUATION
Continuous assessment/Permanent evaluation

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