Musical Theatre: Movement Techniques

Develop your ability to freely and easily use your body to help tell the story of a character, using practical techniques that give you confidence and allow the essence of your character to emerge.

In this course, you'll explore dance movement and physical character work, learning a series of foundational dance moves and practice routines designed to help you think about and use your body in a whole new way—as an instrument that you fully inhabit to deliver powerful, expressive performances.

Movement can mean the connection of steps to a particular piece of music or it can mean the freedom of being able to move confidently within a scene or a song. Physicality typically means a character’s physical presence and how that character moves through space. This course will help you gain confidence in both of these two areas to enhance your overall ability on stage. In addition to this practical exploration, you will also learn about the history of movement in theatre, so you have important context and reference points for all that you are doing.

What you will learn:

✔ Apply techniques that improve your movement abilities in general and musical movement abilities specifically    
✔ Use exercise routines to enhance your movement ability    
✔ Explore iconic performances in which actors have used physicality and movement to portray their characters    
✔ Apply research, observation, and an understanding of your own physicality to make choices about who you are portraying and how they move through space    
✔ Perform a scene, song, or monologue using the movement techniques covered in the course in preparation for your next audition