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- Effective Term:
- Spring 2021 through Spring 2024
- Course Number:
- TA 144
- Course Title:
- Improvisational Theatre
- Credit Hours:
- 4
- Lecture Hours:
- 40
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
- Develop and perform improvisations.
- Implement guidelines and frameworks of specific improvisational games and exercises.
- Perform numerous improvisational formats.
- Perform a scene using improvisation as the basis.
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
Themes:
1. Analysis of script in preparation for a role
2. Team work
3. Critical analysis
4. Appropriate use of warm-up activities
Skills:
1.0 Improvisation from text
1.1 Analysis of character and plot line
1.2 Rehearse and perform scene by improvisation
1.3 Critique other performances using examples
2.0 BEGINNING USE OF IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS
2.1 Demonstrate rules of improvisation
2.2 Perform improvisational exercises
2.3 Develop ideas to form basis for exercises
3.0 PHYSICAL AND VOCAL WORK (TRUST EXERCISES)
3.1 Use the body and voice to convey character
3.2 Practice exercises to determine time and place
4.0 SHORT FORM
4.1 Rehearse and perform mirrors, one-line story, sound ball as methods for warm-up
4.2 Develop competitive exercises
4.3 Practice use of the system of rating improvisations
5.0 LONG FORM
5.1 Define a Long form improvisation using improvisational terminology
5.2 Rehearse scene-to-scene connections
5.3 Perform a long-form improvisation
5.4 Critique other long-form improvisations