Unit+III+ Physical+Theater

By the end of this lesson students will be able to: || Lesson || Resources || Homework || Mime || Theater Techniques || Decroux || * Know the lines || STARTER Solve a puzzle of the images. What do these images evoke? What atmosphere do they create? Link the image to the synopsis THEORY Film is synecdoche and theatre is metaphor. Mallarmé. Arnold Hauser CONSOLIDATION Explore telling the same story in both ways. PLENARY Matching metaphors with images of theater || 1)Pictures/ Images from contemporary theater Tadeuz Kantor, and art films.Physical theater Utopias aplazadas
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2) Power Point of images / metaphors || 1 Watch a play currently on stage. Write about the use of metaphors in space/costume and character. How are metaphors used in the play you have seen to create atmosphere and to enhance your understanding ot the meaning? || Play with Fix points. Recognize/do three different styles of walk (decroux, ) Have different qualities of movement || STARTER Watch an extract of MODERN TIMES. Write the dialogue. Doub it with film. THEORY The hands lie, the core doesn’t. The body supports the story. CONSOLIDATION Explore elements of Corporal Mime (Decroux, Comedia de´ll arte) to use as expressive tools. PLENARY Charades. || 1) Video chaplin
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2)Images of Decroux body’s description || 2 Diary ||
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MASK ||^  || Play: imagination with rules || See rules as possibilities for fun. Discover the game/ main issue of a scene. (That which allows it to develop) Explore strategies within the rules. || STARTER Play STOP. THEORY Reflect on the importance of rules, to relate, to have fun. Rules and strategies. The importance of steps and process. CONSOLIDATION Create a game using three objects. Develop the game into a small scene. PLENARY Write three important rules you follow in life. ||  || 3 Write your dream. What happened? How is the relationship between cause and consequence? What does dreams show you about the nature of Logic? || Make a puppet with a fabric. || STARTER A box full of things (memory game) THEORY Relate to objects for what they are, what they can be, and what they might be. Bein the service of the object rather than imposing. CONSOLIDATION Explore different objects, on the three levels. Play with them. Watch a video of UGA. Explore clothes to do Puppets. PLENARY Say one thing you discover, One thing you confirmed, one thing that surprised you || 1) Small objects in a box (matches, rubber gum, keys, watch, sharpener)
 * ^  || Work with objects, props. (investigate the origin of this word) ||^   || Observe/perform the difference between moving the object and supporting the object.

2)Video UGA ||  || OBJECTS AND SPACE ||^   || Mask tools || Explore awareness without sight. Use body as an expressive tool. Allow new possibilities of communication. || STARTER Blind man’s buff THEORY When one of our sense is shot the other become more perceptive. We are used to have affirmation in out body, how we see others and how other see us, but we constantly communicate with our hole body. CONSOLIDATION Explore masks, through space. Relate with other. Explore the stage with a mask. Create small sequence. PLENARY Build a sculpture of your experience ||   || 4 Investigate a contemporary performer. Write a small description of the story, two links of what you saw... and your appreciation. what you liked? How were the 6 elements used? Metaphor and synecdoche || Understand cause and consequence through physical action. Be in the body. || STARTER Share your dreams in pairs HW. THEORY The logic of the mask is closer to the logic of dreams. Masks evoke the fantastic, spiritual world. CONSOLIDATION Develop sequence of actions with masks. PLENARY Building a machine. || 1) Scenes with Mask work. Much a do about nothing (gulling)/ Peter Brook ||  || CREATION ||^   || Timeline narrating || Recognize the time line of a story. Modify the timeline as a tool for creating atmosphere. Use narrator as a tool to make the audience understanding deeper || STARTER Read la Casa de Asterion de Borges. THEORY The order in which you tell a story change the point of view, the atmosphere and what you want tos ay about it. CONSOLIDATION Explore telling the same story in different orders. PLENARY Write a reflection on the Theatrical tools, how do they relate to your own learning process. || 1)Worksheet on La Casa de Asterion abiertas ||   || Perform a piece of their own interest in front of an audience || ASSESMENT CRITERIA Use at least two of the Theater techniques Concentration. Ability to communicate. Written proposal, clear and challenging. ||  ||   ||
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 * ^  || Presenting a piece. ||^   || Organize the theatrical techniques they’ve learned