Critical Performance (9708.3)

This unit introduces students to the discipline of dramaturgy and performance writing and to key principles of critical reflection and text development in contemporary performance. Students will analyse key performance texts and employ critical literacy and reflective skills in their emerging practice. Students will also analyse key performance texts and explore form, mythic structure, storytelling, character, symbol, metaphor and theatrical language to write their own work for performance.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Identify the practice of dramaturgy and critical reflection in contemporary performance;

2. Analyse key performance texts and apply to the development of new work;
3. Employ principles of contemporary performance writing to write a new performance text;
4. Employ critical, literary and reflective skills in your creative practice as an emerging; and
5. Employ communication skills in academic and creative contexts.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - display initiative and drive, and use their organisation skills to plan and manage their workload
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
2. UC graduates are global citizens - adopt an informed and balanced approach across professional and international boundaries
2. UC graduates are global citizens - behave ethically and sustainably in their professional and personal lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings
2. UC graduates are global citizens - make creative use of technology in their learning and professional lives
2. UC graduates are global citizens - think globally about issues in their profession
2. UC graduates are global citizens - understand issues in their profession from the perspective of other cultures
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - adapt to complexity, ambiguity and change by being flexible and keen to engage with new ideas
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - be self-aware
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - reflect on their own practice, updating and adapting their knowledge and skills for continual professional and academic development
3. UC graduates are lifelong learners - evaluate and adopt new technology

Prerequisites

None.

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.