Space: The Final Frontier

Beautiful imagery created by teachers at the Scenography Masterclass

My Masterclass at the Kuala Lumpur IB DP Theatre Category 3 workshop and student ISTA TaPS focused on scenography, and in particular how we can accent the three-dimensional space.

For further reading, some underpinning theory, and some ideas on practical explorations of your own, view the IB/ISTA Resource pack that accompanied the workshop here.

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We treated scenography as a collaborator, not a servant, and used movement as a starting point for identifying shapes, lines, intersections, and points of concentration in our space. This mapping of movement through space then became a new starting point, from which teachers and students used objects and light to draw attention to qualities of design they had found through their initial movement string. Some really cool visuals were created - and although the teachers and students never took the workshop at the same time, all made their own revelations about how angle, shadow, and negative space are as powerful as their opposites.

Exploring shapes, patterns, lines and spaces with light and objects is a great way to achieve two things:

1. A deep understanding of the aesthetics of symmetry, counterpoint, symbolism and vector.

2. The possibilities open to you when exploring how to stage a play text, devise a moment of TEAM in a collaborative or solo performance, and how you might respond in the Solo Theatre Piece, Production Proposal or Collaborative Project assessment tasks.

Take a look at my free unit planners on design and immersive theatre, as well as the student info booklets on each of the assessment tasks where these skills can be directly employed.