NDA's courses are designed in 8 levels to make sure your child is well-rounded with all aspects in performance arts. Especially in public speaking, body language and acting.
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NELVIN DRAMA ACADEMY
Advance Drama (ages 11 to 13)
What do we learn in Advance Drama?
The following learning goals are specific to the Advance Drama course in addition to the overall learning goals. All three strands (Voice, Acting and Movement) are integrated and covered in one course. We want our students to be able to speak, act and move.
Student teacher placement (new!)
All Advance Drama students have the opportunity to be placed in an Introduction Drama or Beginner Drama class to act as a student teacher to lead the younger actors. This leadership opportunity allows our advanced students to apply their drama skills in a classroom setting. Our school will reach out to the parents in the beginning of the course to set up this opportunity.
Voice and Speech
In the Voice and Speech area, students will dive into the mastery of phonetics. The focus on phonetics will help students develop a toolbox which allows them to speak in different accents and styles of speech through IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet).
Students will learn how to analyse a speech and make decisions on tonality, accent, word stresses, style and pacing based on the intention of the speech.
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IPA
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Accent
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Speech analysis
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Style
Acting and performance
In the Acting area, students will step out of their comfort zone and take their acting to the next level by incorporating risk taking.
By fully immersing into emotions, students will find the intimate connections between their own experience and emotions. Students will learn how to find different triggers that can help them tape into different specific emotions when acting on the stage and in camera.
Finally, students will study real audition materials and audition techniques which include using “action verbs”, script analysis and decoding the underlying intentions of a scene and a monologue.
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Monologue
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Risk tasking
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Stakes
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Opposition
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Script analysis
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5 senses (Emotional Memory)
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Triggers
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Audition Technique
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Being presence
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Follow the impulse
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Action verbs
Movement and body language
In the Movement area, students will study famous movement techniques such as “Commedia dell’arte” and “Leban technique”.
“Commedia dell’arte” is an italian physical comedy acting technique which commonly uses masks.
“Laban technique” offers actors 7 physical aspects to move: punch, press, slash, wring, dab, glide, flick, float. Laban believes that all movements can be categorised as one of these 7 moves.
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Mask work (Commedia dell'arte)
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Tableaux
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Leban technique
Stage Performance
All students are invited and highly recommended to perform in our end of term showcase in a theatre to challenge their confidence! This stage performance is included in the tuition with no extra charge.
Report Cards (feedbacks)
In every term, the student will receive 2 separate report cards (midway and final) commenting on their progress on achieving their learning goals. Parents will get a copy of the report cards.