Applied Creative Arts Performance Practice 1

ACAPP1001 Applied Creative Arts Performance Practice 1

This introduction to acting and theatre practice through improvisation and devising is designed to open the creative pathways to students through focus on the basic elements of performance: body, space, time, text and how they can be configured to affect and address a range of audiences and purposes. Student actors will be taught techniques of improvisation and practical dramaturgy to explore personal connection with material in the studio and site specific settings. Students explore, in a practice-based way, and in reflective analysis how acting processes evolve into performance and how they affect and address different audiences and purposes. Students will participate in a variety of projects that culminate in small studio-based and/or site specific showings of performance work. The subject will introduce students to approaches to creating theatre in a range of settings including in community, education and personal development.

Commonwealth supported place (CSP)

A CSP is subsidised by the Australian Government and students pay a contribution amount. Each unit is classified into a band, depending on the study area of the unit (this discipline may be different from the study area of your course).

2026 contribution amount* $1,192
2026 grandfathered contribution amount^ $997

^ If you are a continuing student who commenced your course before 1 January 2021, you will continue paying the same amount as you would have, had legislative reforms not been implemented, for any units that would otherwise have an increased student contribution amount.

* For Psychology and Social Work bands the unit fee amount is determined by accredited courses. Students in Postgraduate Clinical Psychology, Professional Pathway Psychology or Professional Pathway Social Work accredited courses should refer to the information below.

Domestic full fee–paying places

A domestic full fee–paying place is one that isn’t subsidised by the Australian Government. These places are offered to postgraduate students or those who are ineligible for a CSP. Domestic postgraduate tuition fees are course-based annual fees, which means individual unit fees vary according to the degree. To find out more about domestic tuition fees and view the relevant fee schedule visit our fees website.

International full fee–paying places

International tuition fees are course-based annual fees and the unit fee you pay will vary according to the degree you are studying. To find out more about international tuition fees and view the relevant fee schedule visit our fees website.

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