Elements and Performance Criteria
- Develop warm-up techniques
- In consultation with appropriate personnel, analyse aspects of the human voice, especially those relevant to performers
- Analyse physical problems that can limit movement and physical expression, or cause injury
- In consultation with appropriate personnel, discuss ways to avoid physical and vocal problems and strategies for addressing problems if they arise
- Perform vocal and physical warm-up procedures in preparation for performance activities
- Strengthen and expand vocal and physical technique through regular exercises
- Extend comic performance concepts
- Discuss the appeal of comedy and how comic performance techniques can enhance musical theatre performances
- Experiment with using humour in the portrayal of characters from musicals in a range of musical theatre styles
- Develop techniques for integrating comedy into songs and dance routines, and producing comic effects by speaking and singing in a range of accents
- Develop techniques for exploring physicality of character through gesture, timing and action to enhance comedic effect
- Experiment with ways of using comedy to engage with audiences
- Experiment with improvisation, alone and with a partner, as a way of adding humour to characterisation
- In a learning or rehearsal environment, perform solo and group routines that integrate dancing, singing and comic performance skills
- Maintain expertise
- Practise and refine comic performance techniques relevant to musical theatre
- Maintain and update knowledge of musical theatre trends, stagecraft, and production protocols and procedures
- Use feedback from others to improve own comic performance skills
- Regularly view performances by industry practitioners as a way of sourcing new ideas, identifying trends, maintaining motivation, and improving own technique