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unit 8

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Proposal (unit 8) Rationale  Throughout the past seven units, I feel as a performer I’ve attained and developed more layers of skills and knowledge of acting and the industry  in which I had already possessed from my own experience  before starting the course. The research I’ve conducted on practioners such as  Anton Chekov and Stanislavski has made my skill set knowledge grow significantly   despite already being familiar with the two from previous education. Reflecting on the year I feel that each performance has allowed me to present my skills to different audiences giving me more stage experience . Skills such as magic if and emotional memory has guided me to become more authentic  This course has enhanced and given me a further understanding within the various areas of performing arts. Furthermore, working with various companies such as the Shakespeare school festival and Donmar has been very influential on my work as well as enlight...

Unit 6

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                         Chekov & Stanislavski Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski  (17 January  1863 – 7 August 1938)  Stanislavski was a seminal Russian  theatre practitioner .   He was widely recognised as an outstanding  character actor  and the many  productions that he directed  earned him a reputation as one of the leading  theatre directors  of his generation.  Stanislavski fame and influence, however, rests entirely on  his 'system'  of actor training, preparation, and rehearsal techniques. The system The Stanislavski System is a highly influential method of dramatic theatrical training developed by the famous practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski. The system was developed to find a greater style of acting more innovated and improved to the greater style of Realism...

Unit 1 - 4

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Unit 1 : Principles of Performance    Monday Week 1 Week one was all about working on variety of acting skills sand techniques which will develop are skills, confidence and abilities( see more on skill audit). my first lesson on the UAL LEVEL 3 course. The lesson started of with all the students being in a circle and our teacher  Rob Alexander asking us how our Weekend was. We then walked around the space where we all did various  different activities put together by Rob  to help us get to know one another . For example , one activity included walking around the space and making  eye contact and then further into the exercise we had to smile at each other. The second activity was for us to get into groups where we played the ‘Yes and then’ game and then the 1,2,3 game. This was helpful  because I started to interact with the other students . We then got into the circle and was all given scripts of the play in which we read the first scene o...