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Developing Performance Skills

Movement, text, sound, music- these are some of the areas touched upon while developing skills in performance.  The emphasis is on building a vocabulary of performance techniques. These techniques can include breathing, movement improvisation, and voice modulation, as well as exercises in awareness and musicality. These ā€˜tools of performance’ are often inspired by local sub-continental performance traditions, and then tempered by a plethora of contemporary performance outlooks.

The emphasis in this most preliminary of Ashoka’s performing arts courses is on the individual as a performing entity. The consciousness of one’s own self vis-Ć -vis performative potentialities lays the foundations for the group work so essential to later performing arts courses.  The course work will proceed in a series of ā€˜etudes’ or studies which will result in small performance ā€˜moments’ or phrases. Some of the coursework will be based on texts and scripts to be chosen afresh each semester.  Other coursework can be based on non-textual concepts.

No previous experience is required. This course is a presumed prerequisite for higher-level performing arts courses.

This course is mandatory for all students wanting to pursue a minor in performing arts.

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