BART 97A76 - Acting:The key to understand society?

This workshop will explore the question of our relationship to ourselves and to the others.

With this in mind, the students will be led to discover what acting implies, through a practice oriented towards

plays that can influence our relationship in the society.

References like movies, plays, music will be encouraged during the workshop.

And if « going to the cinema or a play or a concert » allowed to understand the world around you.

Academic expectations

Learning by doing. Oral feedback after each performance. Confidence.

Write throughout the sessions an analysis of the influence of theatre in our lives and in our world?

All the 12 sessions will have the same format.

At first, there will be the body warm-up.

In a second phase, we will move on to games to work on availability, exchange, and listening.

And then, we will work on the proposed scenes.

A feedback and an analysis will make it possible to identify the stakes of the characters.

Grading scheme : 4 grades

• Acting exercices: warm-up, improvisations, basic acting techniques, implications in the workshop.

30% of the final grade.

• Proposal and desire to act (participation)

10% of the final grade.

• Taking into account my comments and try to incorporate them into the scenes.

30% of the final grade.

• Brief synopsis on a theme given at the first workshop. This synopsis will be given at the last session.

30% of the final grade.

This workshop requires regularity, the taste of reading and research.