Musical Lab - Agency Performance

Faculty

Institute of Music

Version

Version 1 of 11.11.2024.

Module identifier

66B6318

Module level

Bachelor

Language of instruction

German

ECTS credit points and grading

5.0

Module frequency

only winterterm

Duration

1 semester

 

 

Brief description

At the end of their training, the students present their interdisciplinary skills in singing, dancing and acting in a public stage program and by participating in the annual AVO (Musical Graduate Presentation of German-speaking universities) with a commission of the ZAV Musical, theater directors and other professional audiences and thus apply to the job market.

Teaching and learning outcomes

At the end of their training, the students bring together the skills and abilities they have learned from all their previous lessons and present themselves primarily in their actual cast type, but also demonstrate a high degree of diversity, a wide range and their ability to create and enrich a stage program with relish, purposeful risk-taking and confidence, even under stress. They are able to present themselves creatively and autonomously as their own authentic stage character and shine in their own individual way.

Overall workload

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

Teaching and learning methods
Lecturer based learning
Hours of workloadType of teachingMedia implementationConcretization
22Practical project-
Lecturer independent learning
Hours of workloadType of teachingMedia implementationConcretization
128Exam preparation-
Graded examination
  • Examination of artistic qualification
Remark on the assessment methods

The examination ends with the presentation of the prepared program for the graduation presentation at the Institute of Music.

Exam duration and scope

The duration and scope of the presentation will be determined in consultation with all other German-speaking universities of the Musical course. This is done in close consultation with the central employment agency for artists in Germany.

Recommended prior knowledge

No prerequisites. It is recommended to have completed all modules of the third year.

Knowledge Broadening

Students who have successfully completed this module are able to integrate their previously acquired knowledge of scenic play development and role design into their lessons in the other disciplines of dance and singing and thus complete their musical training.

Knowledge deepening

Students who have successfully completed this module will be able to present themselves as fully operational and powerful stage performers, in the moment, fresh and believable, with a high degree of immediacy and the ability to repeat themselves accurately.

Knowledge Understanding

Students who have successfully completed this module see themselves as independent, distinctive stage artists who can enrich rehearsals, create impressive scenes and carry performances with their special personalities and acting skills.

Application and Transfer

Students who have successfully completed this module are able to draw on the many different impressions of their entire previous training in singing, dancing and acting and, as musical performers, do not see themselves reduced to practicing a superficial form of entertainment, but are able to do justice to the original form of theater, which always consists of singing, dancing and acting, through their many skills, to show deep expression and to captivate an audience.

Academic Innovation

Students who have successfully completed this module are in a position to constantly and continuously develop themselves further, as they are able to take the personal maturation process, the moment and biographical influences with them and use them to give new roles an authentic depth and exciting form time and again.

Communication and Cooperation

Students who have successfully completed this module are able to successfully present themselves to a professional audience, to critically examine what they have shown and their own performance, to build a strong bond with the audience during a performance, to reflect together afterwards on what they have seen in discussions and, beyond their artistic skills, to make themselves interesting as a personality/ensemble member to be cast and to take up initial engagements.

Academic Self-Conception / Professionalism

Students who have successfully completed this module see themselves as unique and unmistakable stage personalities who can make themselves fully creatively available to an artistic project with the greatest possible degree of credibility and imagination, their creative creativity and their craftsmanship.

Literature

1. Barbara Walden und Stanley Walden (1998): Life upon a wicked stage,  Hannover: Kallmeyer Verlag 

Linkage to other modules

The module serves to place graduates directly in the job market as musical performers.

Applicability in study programs

  • Music Education
    • Music Education – Musical B.A. (01.09.2023)
    • Music Education – Musical B.A. (01.09.2020)

    Person responsible for the module
    • Wienhausen, Sascha
    Teachers
    • Wienhausen, Sascha
    • Schmieder, Michael Josef
    • Wessels-Behrens, Martin
    • Riebeling, Roland