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 hoursType of teachingMedia implementationConcretization
180SeminarPresence-
15Individual coachingPresence-
Lecturer independent learning
Workload hoursType of teachingMedia implementationConcretization
105seminar 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