The craft of being on stage: voice, movement, focus and collaboration.
These are the statements the Drama Year 8 syllabus makes about Performance Skills. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Vocal warm-ups and breath support - Performance Skills, Year 8.
Articulation and accent work - Performance Skills, Year 8.
Physical warm-ups and spatial awareness - Performance Skills, Year 8.
Stage combat basics: safety first - Performance Skills, Year 8.
Character physicality - Performance Skills, Year 8.
Focus and concentration - Performance Skills, Year 8.
Listening and reacting on stage - Performance Skills, Year 8.
Sustaining a performance - Performance Skills, Year 8.
Year 8 Assessment Task Shape is 50 marks in 75 minutes. Questions on Performance Skills are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Drama Year 8 uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Performance Skills is module 3 of 3 in Drama Year 8. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Drama Year 8 dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.