Building Characters Through Physical Movement

Learners will prepare and protect their voice and body for dramatic performance by applying vocal health practices, warmups, breath control, alignment, and injury prevention strategies.

Learners will use vocal projection, articulation, diction, and expressive vocal techniques to communicate thoughts and emotions clearly in dramatic performance, while safely integrating voice and body.

Learners will use posture, movement, gestures, facial expressions, and physical habits to portray believable characters while maintaining safe performance practices.

Learners will develop a unique vocal identity for characters, deliver dialogue with personality, sustain consistent characterization through extended scenes, and evaluate performances using specific criteria.

Learners will understand the components of dramatic structure and develop original characters, dialogue, actions, conflict, and pacing for use in dramatic scenes.

Learners will apply dramatic structure to improvised scene work and to the interpretation and performance of existing scripted scenes.

Learners will collaboratively and individually create original scenes integrating characters, dialogue, and action, then revise and perform their work for an audience.