The switch to online learning is offering Brock University’s Dramatic Arts students new ways of exploring their craft.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re making some exciting changes to DART 1F01: Acting for Non-Majors,\u201d says Professor David Fancy. \u201cWe\u2019re using this opportunity to build a course that we can also share with students who have to work remotely in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
The course, which Fancy describes as \u201cextreme monologuing,\u201d is designed to help students discover the underlying principles of acting. Students will explore the actor\u2019s process, including awareness, stimulus, impulse, intention and action. Exercises will help students become aware of their ingrained habits and develop playfulness and vitality.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve drawn on expertise from actor trainers around the globe,\u201d says Fancy, who has been working on a series of videos featuring professional actors being led through drama exercises.<\/p>\n
The course is organized in a series of modules that students work through at their own pace and will run July 2 to 29.<\/p>\n
Associate Professor Karen Fricker\u2019s DART 3P94: Theatre Criticism course has also moved online. The intensive, 10-day course introduces students to theatre criticism. Students will watch productions, write and edit reviews, and explore alternate forms of criticisms. The course will run\u00a0June 2 to 12.<\/p>\n
While Fricker had hoped to take students on field trips to see live theatre, the pandemic situation has meant that students will be exploring theatre through video.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an increasing amount of video-captured theatre performances available online, both through online subscriptions and packages that the Brock Library already holds, to theatres and festivals making some of their captured content available to the public,\u201d says Fricker.<\/p>\n
Students will be required to see a minimum of four productions. In addition to participating in online chats, students will also create digital critical responses to theatre and develop a summative criticism project.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the interesting wrinkles of critiquing such performances is that you\u2019re not reviewing live theatre but rather a recording of live theatre, and so questions of camera angles, cuts and actors\u2019 relationships to each other and the camera come into play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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