The Mastery/Mystery Tour
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Prioritising Story with Middle Years
Tiina Moore
La Trobe University
Drama Victoria 2014
We
prefer to learn by example of
other practitioners
Teacher learning can plateau
Daily roles result in reinforcing
‘entity’ (unvarying attributes) over
incremental theories (effort)
Scott & Dinham: Born Not Made: the nativist myth in teacher
thinking (2008)
Tiina Moore
La Trobe University
Drama Victoria 2014
For example:
Heathcote’s Contrasts (movement/stillness;
sound/silence; light/dark)
O’Toole/Haseman’s Elements: context, tension, focus,
place, space, time, language, movement, mood, symbol
Nicholson’s Languages: body, voice gesture
Brook- a person, enters… The Empty Space
Semiotics – Performance/Production signing
Tiina Moore
La Trobe University
Drama Victoria 2014
Brecht : Alienation techniques
Stanislavsky : Emotional memory; ‘method’
Boal: Games, forum theatre
Laban’s Efforts: press, flick, wring, dab, slash, glide, thrust
& float
Bogart’s Viewpoints :tempo, duration, kinaesthetic
response, repetition, spatial relationship, topography,
shape, gesture, architecture
VCE Drama Ensembles: Non-realism eg. transformation of
time, place and objects
Tiina Moore
La Trobe University
Drama Victoria 2014
Games
Theatre
Sports
Find a Space
Find a Partner
Walk around the room and…
Groups of 5: Tableau, Movement
& Caption
Tiina Moore
La Trobe University
Drama Victoria 2014
The Cemetary Path by Leonard Q. Ross
◦ What do students need to know to
perform this story?
◦ What Mastery (technique) is needed to do
this justice?
◦ What Mystery (tension) should remain ‘a
gap’ ‘a source of wonder’ ‘ an
interrogative space?’
Tiina Moore
La Trobe University
Drama Victoria 2014