Working Pattern: Full Time
Hours: 40 hours per week on average
Summary of the role:
To ensure the safe, efficient, and effective provision of high-quality contemporary movement training, teaching all acting approaches and related subjects across all programmes/courses within the School of Acting, undertaking and overseeing assessments, giving feedback and planning and overseeing a range of
units/modules and projects whilst ensuring the currency and world-leading position of the curriculum is maintained.
The Movement Tutor will facilitate pastoral care as Head of Year to students within the School of Acting (assisting the Director of the School of Acting in the maintenance of discipline amongst the student body) and will support and collaborate with the Director of the School of Acting in the audition process.
Key Responsibilities:
As Movement Tutor in the School of Acting, you will teach and assess a range of units while ensuring the currency and world-leading position of the curriculum. In doing so you will:
- Promote a collegiate culture that encourages difference and respects diversity.
- Make a positive contribution to the team, supporting colleagues in their day-today activities.
- Be agile and able to reprioritise objectives in line with the school’s changing needs.
- Be committed to supporting and initiating public-facing events, outreach work with schools and community groups, and teach and/or research collaborations with current, professional theatre-makers.
- Remain up to date with regulatory or disciplinary developments in your subject area
- Explain both verbally and in writing complex specialist processes, information and ideas at a high level of detail and technical specification. .
- Support the school in acquiring TDAP
- Have a practical understanding of and apply a wide range of methodologies and practitioners, such as:
Laban, Lecoq , Chekhov, Butoh, Viewpoints ,Meyerhold ,Grotowski, Suzuki.
- Use your solid working knowledge of some of the following: Contact
- Improvisation, Mask work, Yoga, Pilates and Contemporary Dance, Historical dance, African dance, and inclusive movement practices.
- Sharing pastoral duties with head of year and as a personal tutor where necessary. This will include monitoring student’s wellbeing, 1-2-1 tutorials and group tutorials.
- Delivering Movement support on the third year Autumn and Summer shows.
- Undertaking formative, summative assessments written and verbal feedback for students where allocated
- Developing Movement and Dance modules in the BA Acting curriculum, in consultation with the Head of Movement, ensuring it remains contemporary, inclusive and practical.
- Participating in audition days, open days and induction days whenever required to do so.
- Undertaking internal and external professional development activity commensurate with the expectations of the post.
- Ensuring the curriculum taught and course structure matches the requirements of the Degree, the National Qualification and the professional accrediting bodies.
- Maintaining and updating assessment details to reflect curriculum changes.
- Facilitating BA Acting induction and student handbook sessions.
First Year responsibilities:
- Ensure the highest possible quality of teaching of movement and dance throughout the year
- Enable students to explore their bodies and physical habits through robust and engaging practical pedagogic practices
- Guide students to find release in the body to allow flow, reaction and organic expressive responses.
- Engage students with understanding and awareness of space – both personal and general.
- Directing first year projects.
- Facilitate an inclusive and diverse teaching practice that will enable students to work with full commitment to differing qualities for ownership of action – detail and expression in form through both experiential and analytic learning. .
- Oversee and undertake assessments, ensuring feedback is delivered to deadlines.
- Oversee the marking of logbooks/journals.
- Coordinate health and safety as an element of safe care in the Movement, Intimacy and Stage Combat modules.
- Explore co-teaching opportunities that may enhance the student learning experience.
- Undertake personal tutor responsibilities.
Second Year responsibilities:
- Generate a deepening understanding of movement and Dance through methodologies and/or practitioners.
- Maintain further development of the actor’s individual creative toolkit to continue realising character and expressive choices through embodied and detailed physical understanding.
- Facilitate exploration of the fullest use of the imaginative cultural physical range through preparation and execution of group warmups alongside individual limbers so that the student actor experiences ownership in performance.
- Oversee and undertake assessments, ensuring feedback is delivered to deadlines
- Oversee the marking of logbooks/journals
- Explore co-teaching opportunities that may enhance the student learning experience.
Third Year responsibilities:
- Undertake pre-class/rehearsal movement warmups for the 3rd Year Actors
- Assessing & marking public performances.
- Assessing & marking TV/Films.
- Where necessary provide production movement support.
For the MA Course
- Teaching first and second year Movement and Dance classes.
- Directing first year projects.
- Sharing pastoral duties with head of year and as a personal tutor where necessary. This will include monitoring student’s wellbeing, 1-2-1 tutorials and group tutorials.
- Delivering Movement support on the third year Autumn and Summer shows.
- Undertaking formative, summative assessments written and verbal feedback for students where allocated
- Developing Movement and Dance modules in the BA Acting curriculum, in consultation with the Head of Movement, ensuring it remains contemporary, inclusive and practical.
- Participating in audition days, open days and induction days whenever required to do so.
- Undertaking internal and external professional development activity commensurate with the expectations of the post.
- Ensuring the curriculum taught and course structure matches the requirements of the Degree, the National Qualification and the professional accrediting bodies.
- Maintaining and updating assessment details to reflect curriculum changes.
- Facilitating BA Acting induction and student handbook sessions
For the Foundation Course
- Teaching a range of Movement and Dance Foundation Course classes as timetabled.
- Delivering Movement support on Foundation Course end of year project.
- In conjunction with the Head of Movement, formulating and reviewing plans for the delivery of Movement and Dance the Foundation curriculum in advance of the academic year.
- Implementing and overseeing relevant Movement and Dance student assessments.
- Undertaking written feedback, maintaining and updating assessment details.
- Ensuring the curriculum taught and course structure matches the requirements of the HE Cert qualification.
Assessment responsibilities:
- Undertake assessments ensuring the highest possible quality of learning and teaching of movement throughout the School of Acting.
Secondary Duties:
- Running Outreach workshops with feeder schools and colleges whenever available/required to do so.
- Facilitating auditions whenever required to do so.
- Being flexible in covering classes and offering assistance whenever available/required to do so.
- Contributing to the delivery and enhancement of the BA in Acting
Person Specification
Qualifications:
- Be educated to MA level in a teaching-based Movement Training discipline or possess significant HE or professional experience (Essential)
Knowledge:
- Possess the knowledge and professional connections to bring in a wide variety of relevant professionals and visiting professionals in the discipline of Movement that reflect the student population, in order to enhance teaching and learning within the movement modules and projects. (Essential)
- Be able to use Knowledge Exchange/Knowledge Transfer and strong national/international connections. (Essential)
- Have the ability to engage in current discourses of diversity and inclusion in actor training pedagogies. (Essential)
Experience:
- Have a proven significant professional profile in movement training for student actors (Essential)
- Have detailed expertise in at least three widely recognised methodologies and coaching expertise to support and enhance the individual natural and expressive creativity and imagination through movement of the student actor. (Essential)
- Have excellent practical teaching expertise of movement methodologies within the Conservatoire context as well as a proven significant professional profile in Actor Training. (Essential)
- Be able to demonstrate experience of performing, devising, and teaching across interdisciplinary contexts. (Essential)
Skills and abilities:
- Possess excellent communication and written skills (Essential)
- Have the ability to work in an interdisciplinary manner with artists, directors (Essential)
- Be able to combine experience of teaching and research with professional skills (Essential)
Personal Competencies:
- Possess a passion for teaching and learning across all years in the BA Acting, Foundation and the MA Acting courses and have the ability to pass on this passion. (Essential)
