IB Theatre: Research Presentation

Perspective—Candidates should approach this task from the perspective of performer.

Aim—The aim of this task is for students to:

• Engage in research into a world theatre tradition they have not previously studied and understand its cultural and/or theoretical contexts
• Explore a performance convention from that world theatre tradition and demonstrate the processes they have undergone to physically explore and understand this convention
• Understand the performance convention as a result of practical and physical exploration of the performance convention in the body and apply this to a moment of theatre.

Understandings—Through this exploration students will understand:

• How to practically and physically explore performance conventions from around the world
• How to apply the selected conventions to moments of theatre
• That a world theatre tradition has a fixed set of specific performance conventions unique to that tradition which do not change significantly over time
• The significance and value of world theatre traditions and performance conventions to the cultures from which they evolve
• The significance of learning about theatre traditions not previously studied on the student’s own development.