Personal Learning Plan

Personal Learning plan: 

In our first movement workshop, Liz gave us some questions to think about regarding our experience and feeling about 'Movement'. 

1) How do you feel about movement and what is your background in this area? 
            Movement is very broad term that covers a lot of areas surrounding theatre. I do not have much 'dance' experience per say, but during my time in a musical theatre company I have done some musical theatre dance and contemporary dance which has helped me develop some techniques. But movement doesn't just consist of 'dance', physical theatre is something I have always been interested and during A level Drama and theatre studies we did a piece of theatre using primarily physical theatre to tell the story which is part of movement. I feel that movement is sometimes misunderstood as 'dance' but any physical piece that tells a story using your physicality is 'movement'. So I am really looking forward to studying more ways of using your physicality to communicate ideas to an audience. 

2) What are your perceptions of what studying movement will involve? 
             As I have touched on in the previous answer, at first I thought movement would merely involve dance, so I wasn't looking forward to that module, but having spoken to Liz and read through the module guide I can see how this module 'fits in' to the world of theatre and my degree programme so I am now really looking forward to studying movement. 

3) What do you perceive your strengths are in relation to movement? 
              My strengths in this area are primarily around the physical theatre aspect, as I really enjoy working in productions that involve physical theatre and have some experience in that area. But just like movement physical theatre is a term that is extremely broad, and covers many aspects (e.g. body propping etc.) 

4) What do you hope to achieve through this module? 
             I hope to achieve a broader understanding of the body and how that can be connected to an idea and issue and how it can be communicated in theatre. I also hope to strengthen my core muscles so that performing in a physical production will be easier and I will be able to hold some poses or positions for a longer period of time. 

5) What strategies can you adopt to achieve your goals?
             I feel that to achieve my goal all I have to do is give a 100% effort to all the exercises in the workshop and work on them at home to ensure that I get the most out of this module. 

6)  How do you imagine this module might tie in with other modules? 
              As I have stated previously, this module is extremely important to theatre as the body is one of the actors 'tools' in order to tell the story or subtext of a scene. But I feel this modules relates most closely to 'The Physical Actor' module which is helping you relate body and physicality with your voice. So both these modules are concerned with how the physicality will portray meaning, but in 'The Physical Actor' it is also about how the voice ties in with the physicality to portray meaning and how they are interconnected.