2016/17 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

PECI3106 Performance Project

40 creditsClass Size: 100

Module manager: Dr George Rodosthenous
Email: g.rodosthenous@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2016/17

This module is mutually exclusive with

PECI3107

Enterprise Project

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

To create a fully-realised contemporary performance for a public audience employing appropriate discipline-specific skills and collaborative performance practices.

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Contribute creatively and intellectually to the development and production of a performance for a paying public audience.
- Negotiate and carry out an individual role within a collaborative context as appropriate to the performance context to near-professional standards
- Apply creative solutions to performance problems incorporating critical feedback from peers and collaborators
- Reflect authoritatively on the aims of a specific performance and its contexts and the impact on individual roles
- Locate and discuss individual and collective work within a contemporary and theoretical context
- Critically evaluate the work identifying opportunities for own future professional development

Skills outcomes
- Effective verbal communication within a creative context
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Adaptability, reliability and self-motivation
- Self-development as creative performance practitioner
- High levels of organisation, planning and time management
- Skills in appraisal of own work and work of others'
- Development of critical evaluation through writing

Syllabus

Students will be able to express preferences for involvement in a range of performance projects. These may include:
- A public performance initiated by (and in collaboration with) staff in the School
- A public performance initiated and led by a student ensemble

Students will carry out roles in relation to the development and realisation of the performance as appropriate to the context of the particular project and their degree specialism. Activities might include; directing; writing; dramaturgy; management; marketing; voice, movement, and physical performance; dance; design; construction; technical management. Students will build on their experience of collaborative projects at previous levels and draw on specialist skills and understanding that have been developed in programme modules.

Staff will lead regular workshop classes as appropriate to the particular projects, and oversee the production process through regular
production meetings and supervision of the production week.
In addition, students will work on the production quasi-independently, developing material from workshops and realising ideas with the
advice and guidance of the appointed tutor(s) and with support, tuition and monitoring from academic and technical staff as appropriate.

In preparation for group work, students will also be required to pursue independently their own reading, planning, development of practice and
on-going evaluation as necessary to their role in the project. Students will be expected to document their creative and intellectual contribution to the project, their reflections on the performance process as it unfolds, and implications for their own personal learning and development.
Students will be assessed on their collaborative contribution and through a critical reflective evaluation of the process and
impact of the performance situating this work within the wider context of contemporary theory and practice in performance and the cultural
industries.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Supervision	12	2.00	24.00
Meetings	14	1.00	14.00
Lecture	1	1.00	1.00
Practical	14	3.00	42.00
Private study hours			319.00
Total Contact hours			81.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			400.00

Private study

Individual preparation for group work i.e. reading, researching, planning, developing ideas to communicate to others (69 hours)
Self-directed group work and devising arising from tutor-led sessions, including contribution to production and performance weeks (100 hours)
Documenting individual contribution and recording on-going evaluation (40 hours)
Reading/viewing work to investigate contemporary and theoretical context - to feed into group Work/rehearsals and retrospective analysis (70 hours)
Writing retrospective critical evaluation (40 hours)

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Tutors will monitor progress through observation of individual contributions throughout tutor-led sessions and production and planning meetings. Students will be required to plan their time on this module and identify the milestones and deadlines as appropriate to their particular role, the particular production and the work of the group as a whole. Regular group monitoring, observation, critique of developing work and both individual and group feedback will form an integral aspect of the delivery of this module.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	Reflective critical evaluation (4,000 – 5,000 words) analysing the individual and collective work processes and impact of the performance within a defined contemporary performance and theoretical context.	40.00
Practical	Contribution to the evolution and presentation of the performance.	60.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Each student will be assessed individually. The 60% weighting to their role and contribution to the evolution and realisation of a production ensures that students give due consideration to their work as part of a collaborative team and see their individual creative and intellectual input in the context of a group endeavour. It also places emphasis on the production itself as the major outcome in order to foster near-industry standards. Self and peer assessment of this component is an integral part of the assessment process. The individual documentation and analysis of the process allows students to demonstrate their individual perspective and insight, during the process and retrospectively. The 40% weighting of this written component ensures that students are engaging reflectively as well as actively throughout the process. The written analysis gives students the opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of contemporary theory and practice, (from their own discipline and beyond), their capacity for critical appraisal and their own personal development as a result of their learning experience.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 26/04/2016

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