Scenic design forms
- Faculty
Institute of Music
- Version
Version 2 of 31.10.2024.
- Module identifier
66B6357
- Module level
Bachelor
- Language of instruction
German
- ECTS credit points and grading
10.0
- Module frequency
winter and summer term
- Duration
2 semesters
- Brief description
The module ‘Scenic Design Forms’ consists of the courses ‘Scene Study (Musical)’ and ‘Speaking (Musical) II’.
Scene study:
Students experience more practical relevance through their first scenic play on a dramatic text and expand and consolidate their acting skills by focussing on the moment and impulse through intensified body work with the help of the neutral mask.Speaking II:
In ‘Speaking II’, the focus is shifted from group lessons to individual lessons in order to provide individualised support.
- Teaching and learning outcomes
The next fundamental step in the training is to achieve the greatest possible immediacy of a performance impulse, i.e. to fill a scene with life without any recognisable preparation and to act in a free flow of impulses using the possibilities opened up by playing with the neutral mask. Students are introduced to this in particular through mask work with reference to Le Cock den's teachings.
In scene study, after previous monologue work, the technical skills in scenic acting with one or more acting partners are trained. The focus is on sensitive and contemporary reactions in a dramatic context.
In ‘Speaking II’, the experiences from the group lessons are now intensified in individual lessons. Here, individual phonetics problems are worked on in the smallest possible setting. Speaking voice placement and the already begun handling of texts are deepened and refined.
- Overall workload
The total workload for the module is 300 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").
- Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 180 Seminar Presence - 15 Individual coaching Presence - Lecturer independent learning Workload hours Type of teaching Media implementation Concretization 105 seminar paper -
- Graded examination
- Examination of artistic qualification
- Ungraded exam
- Work practical
- Remark on the assessment methods
The course Scenic Studies (Musical) ends with one of the graded examinations listed.
The course Speaking (Musical) II ends with a work sample or with the examination type “regular participation”.The choice of ungraded examination types from the given options is the responsibility of the respective teacher. They will adhere to the applicable study regulations.
- Exam duration and scope
See current study regulations.
- Recommended prior knowledge
No prerequisites. It is recommended to have successfully completed the module Fundamentals of Acting.
- Knowledge Broadening
Students who have successfully completed this module are able to build on the teaching content of the previous year, increase impulses, use them directly and create dramatic processes in play scenes with several partners in an uninhibited, creative and confident manner. After the students have dealt with the creation of a role in monologue work in the first year, they can now meet others with a stage character, feel out a scene together, react to external impulses, take offers from their play partners, transform and continue.
In Speaking (Musical) II, stage language becomes a natural means of expression through use and repetition.
- Knowledge deepening
Students who have successfully completed this module have acquired the ability to completely absorb an impulse, to sense and magnify it in their bodies and can recognise this as fundamental to understanding and mastering the basics of acting. Letting an impulse flow through the body and into the space and becoming creative from it, discovering new things, enriches the work on text and role finding fundamentally and to a high degree.
- Knowledge Understanding
Students who have successfully completed this module understand and master the possibility of designing a scene beyond personal, intellectual or performing intentions, but only following the necessary moment.
- Application and Transfer
Students who have successfully completed this module are able to relate to the audience through a free and unprepared performance in the here and now, in space, and thus utilise an important component of acting effectiveness. In Speaking (Musical) II, students learn to use their voice precisely in the room and to reach an audience in a targeted manner.
- Academic Innovation
Students who have successfully completed this module are able to create a character beyond intellectual ideas and previously known boundaries, caused by judgements or ingrained acting patterns. They practise this knowledge directly in a playful context in the duet scenes rehearsed in parallel.
- Communication and Cooperation
Students who have successfully completed this module are now able to integrate, mirror and engage in critical exchange in intimate and demanding rehearsal processes.
- Academic Self-Conception / Professionalism
Students who have successfully completed this module are able to consciously take advantage of and integrate into their play between the arrangement of rehearsals and a necessary fresh impulse for the play, thus filling a scene with life in an exciting and varied way.
Speech lessons enable students to use language easily and naturally, even if it is far removed from their own linguistic style.
- Literature
Jakob Jenisch, szenische Spielfindung (siehe erstes Studienjahr)
Samy Molcho, Körpersprache, 1995
LeCoq/ Jean Carasso: der künstlerische Körper ,2000
William Esper: Kunst und Handwerk des Schauspielers, 2021
- Linkage to other modules
The module enables access to one's own artistic power and serves to develop a credible and unmistakable stage personality. The module also prepares students for the advanced module “Role work I”.
- Applicability in study programs
- Music Education
- Music Education – Musical B.A. (01.09.2023)
- Person responsible for the module
- Wienhausen, Sascha
- Teachers
- Riebeling, Roland
- Tebbenhoff, Gesche
- Caspari, Matthias
- Giese, Sarah
- Behrens, Judith
- Dom, Christina