New Era Academy  - Examinations in Speech & Drama

ASSOCIATE DIPLOMA IN MIME

Successful Learners have the right to append ANEA (Mime) after their names.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

The Associate Diploma in Mime is designed to:

• provide a progressive training programme for actors and mime artists
• provide professional development and specialised training for mime artists
• provide a standard of training that is recognised by wider agencies
• provide a relevant and challenging syllabus that encourages a high standard of knowledge, research and performance

LEARNING OUTCOMES:

Learners should:

• demonstrate a professionally high standard of performance
• demonstrate an accurate historical knowledge
• demonstrate an awareness of the modern idiom
• demonstrate attention to detail and spatial awareness
• sustain the continuous creative invention,
• demonstrate an understanding of mimetic technique
• demonstrate a good understanding of situations, characterisations and space
• demonstrate work that is of high technical quality and artistically effective
• communicate a mature understanding and appreciation of genre through both their practical and theoretical work
• demonstrate the qualities necessary to be a successful mime artist

Learners for this must already have achieved the Grade 8 Mime examination.

Learners must be at least 17 years old.

The examination consists of:

• A practical session of approximately one hour’s duration at which two examiners are present
• There is no written paper
• 75 marks are required to pass

 THE PRACTICAL EXAMINATION

 Learners should:

1. Demonstrate the wearing of costume and the handling of properties from any two periods selected by the examiners at the time of the examination.    (Time limit 3 minutes for each)    (20 marks)

2. Tell a story involving at least two characters using traditional mime gestures.    (Time limit 3 minutes)    (15 marks)

3. Be prepared to improvise a mime based on two contrasting emotions selected by the examiner.    (Time limit 3 minutes)    (15 marks)

4. Show how two contrasting characters of their own choice approach the same occupation.    (Time limits 2 minutes each)    (15 marks)

5. Present a narrative mime of their own choice.    (Time limit 5 minutes)    (15 marks)

6. Discuss in depth with the examiners:

·         the origins of mime

·         Comedia dell Arte characters

·         the effect of costume on movement

·         mime in education

·         the building of technique    (20 marks)

Copyright © 2009 New Era Academy

This Page Last Modified August, 2009