Degree Programme in Performing Arts
Jakobstad campus (Pietarsaari in Finnish)
Preliminary start and end date: 11.01-21.05.2027
Stage directing 1 - 7 ECTS
Objectives
The student:
Understands the basic principles of play analysis
- Understands the importance of finding your own theme/expression.
- Knows methods to deepen the scene analysis
- Has insight into the multifaceted work of the director
- Has knowledge of the geometry of the stage
- Have an understanding of the choice of venue
- Can develop a directing plan
- Can direct a self-selected scene
- Can use the different signs to clarify their own message
- Can think in symbols
- Be able to develop meaningful and purposeful warm ups
- Can give concrete feedback
- Has begun to develop a personal leadership style as a director and an idiom of their own.
- Understands that theatre work is communication
- Has an understanding of sustainability issues regarding work ethics in the theatre industry
Movement 3 - 4 ECTS
Objectives
The student:
Can identify how the body can be used as a tool for learning and understanding in different subject areas.
- Knows paracrobatics and has knowledge of lifting and being lifted.
- Knows the basic conditions for safe stagefighting
- Can create and adapt learning environments and teaching materials that promote embodiment and active bodily participation.
- Can use bodily methods to explore and understand abstract concepts and theories.
- Can perform contact improvisation with acrobatic elements.
- Master the basics of stage-fighting.
- Can reflect on the role of the body in the learning process and how it affects the understanding and assimilation of new knowledge.
Basic course in acting 2, part 2 - 4 ECTS
Objectives
Students:
-Know pecific periods, movements and theatre practices that have influenced the art of acting. Analyse their relevance to contemporary performing arts
- Can identify the difference between psychological and non-psychological approach to role/situation/scene.
- Can relate their own stage presence to principles of voice and body movement in relation to time and space and to the ensemble as a whole.
- Is familiar with the concepts of situation/direction/ turnpoint and verfremdung/ gesture and can utilise them in his/her stage performance.
- Can explore advanced improvisation exercises and how they can be used to develop the actors' creativity and spontaneity.
- Is able to provide guidance on characterisation, vocal technique and stage presence.
- Can develop and implement lessons on acting. Use different didactic principles to engage students.
- Can apply their knowledge of acting in relation to audiovisual media, such as film and radio. The student has developed competence in microphone and camera technology and understands the possibilities they offer for acting.
- Is able to discuss ethical issues that may arise in acting.
Stage performance 3 - 5 ECTS
Objectives
The student:
- Understands the purpose of a TIU project
- Knows about different TIU projects and their materials
- Have immersed themselves in the themes of the project
- Has knowledge of what a tour entails
- Can develop an artistic performance based on pedagogical objectives
- Have the practical skills needed to write a script for a TIU project.
- Is able to combine drama conventions with the dramaturgy of the performance in a functional way.
- Be able to organise a tour
- Have clear pedagogical objectives in artistic creation.
- Recognises the importance of continuously developing the performance throughout the process.
- Has an understanding of sustainability issues in the theatre industry
