Drama
Examples unpack the knowledge and skills in Drama in relation to the elements of drama and the drama practices: creating, performing and responding. They provide a suggested sequence for the introduction and development of knowledge and skills.
Introduction
The elements of drama are the foundational building blocks of all drama and can include role, situation, language, place, movement, time, character, relationships, voice, tension, space, mood/atmosphere, contrast, symbol and focus. They work dynamically together to create dramatic action and dramatic meaning.
Students learn drama knowledge and skills through the practices of creating, performing and responding to drama.
The examples are suggestions only and are neither prescriptive nor exhaustive. Teachers can draw from these examples to:
- make decisions about the order and pace with which they introduce and develop knowledge and skills
- support differentiation and meeting the needs of students with diverse learning needs
- plan Arts learning across a range of delivery contexts such as multi-disciplinary units across The Arts and other learning areas.
Throughout their Drama learning, students use questions based on Viewpoints (personal and imaginative, cultures and worlds, conventions, and processes) as an inquiry tool for considering their drama practice from multiple perspectives, as artist or as audience. Suggested questions that explore the Viewpoints are included alongside the examples of knowledge and skills.
Teachers are best placed to make decisions about the examples and questions that will best suit their students and context. Graphics suggest an introductory point for each of the knowledge and skill examples.
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