Voice I

Code: ARC12599L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Teatro

Teaching languages: Portuguese, English

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

Gaining conscience of the voice as a physical, physiological, emotional and artistic phenomenon Identifying breathing as biological phenomenon and the voices motor.
Identifying the body as the support, the matter and the amplifier for the voice.
Developing a both rational and intuitive relationship with text and music. Grammar, meaning, communication.
Connect with silence as part of the theatrical and vocal communication.
Better hearing and self-awareness concerning the voice as body phenomenon.
Autonomy.

Physical work: relaxation, strength, postures, breathing.
Technical work: breath and sound, resonance, dynamic, voiceprints, articulation.
Text read at first sight.
Work on the text, depending on specific needs and/or in conjunction with the work developed in other disciplines.
Singing together and solo. Contact with music reading.

Teaching Methods

The method is eminently practical, based on experience in and in the ability to apply it in other dramatic exercises along the academic period. The evaluation is determined by the presence, comprehension and analysis of individual cases and collective vocal commitment at school (30%)
1st open intermediate assessment class: where students will demonstrate exercises of voice - 30%
2nd open final evaluation class: where the students will make a presentation of excerpts of texts, poems and songs. - 40%