PERFORMING ARTS CONSERVATORY PERFORMANCE RUBRIC

STUDENT NAME: ________________________________________________

WEEK:
ACTING STAGE ALMOST GROWING BEGINNER
PERFORMANCE READY THERE! PAINS

Student Student Student is in Student

possesses possesses need of possesses little
exemplary skill sufficient skill additional skills to no skill and/
and application and application and application or application
of all of all of the of the
techniques techniques techniques techniques
needed for a needed for a needed for a needed for a
successfully successfully successfully successfully
delivered delivered delivered delivered
dramatic dramatic dramatic dramatic
performance.
performance.
performance.
performance.

100.00 PTS 80 PTS 70 PTS 50 PTS

CHARACTER *Character's *Character's *Character's *Student is

DEVELOPMENT motivation is motivation is motivation is doing little
How well has well-defined.
somewhat lacking.
more than
the student *Depth and defined.
*There is little reading from
researched, range of *Depth and depth or range the book when
developed, emotion is range of of emotion.
delivering lines
and delivered expansive.
emotion is *Life and world or speaking
their *Life and world adequate.
of character is with no
character? of character is *Life and world not illuminated theatricalities,
20.0% illuminated of character is by actor's emotions or
brilliantly superficial, but performance. motivation.
through actor's adequately
performance. displayed
through actor's
performance.

VOICE *Student *Student *Student *Student

Does the consistently enunciates strives to exhibits poor
student use uses their clearly.
enunciate and vocal
her/his voice voice *Student varies add variations, enunciation
as an expressively, voice pitch and but overall and no
instrument to safely, and tone, and effect is flimsy variations in
propel their articulately.
reflects some - due to either volume and/or
performance *Student level of too much or pitch.
20.0% projects their expressiveness too little
voice clearly.
. expression.
*Student
utilizes their
voice to
include
variations of
pitch, rate,
volume, and
tone consistent
to their
character.
MOVEMENT *Student *Student *Student *Student
Is the body employs employs strives to employs little
utilized to the phenomenal appropriate employ to no
student's use of use of appropriate physicality in
utmost ability physicality to physicality to use of scene.

to aid in enhance enhance physicality, but *Student's

development character with character with overall affect is moves are
of character's body body flimsy - due to without
intent and movements movement and either too purpose.
delivery of and facial facial much or too
lines? expressions.
expression.
little
20.0% *Student uses *Student uses expression.

a variety of an appropriate *Student's

blocking to add amount of movements
interest to the blocking to add rarely reflect
piece.
interest to the purpose.
*Student's piece.

movements *Student's
always reflect movements
purpose. usually reflect
purpose.
PREPARATION *Student's lines *Student *Student has *Student
How much are delivered delivers lines trouble cannot perform
time did the flawlessly from and follows delivering lines without the
student memory.
blocking well without calling script.

apparently *Student fluidly and with few for them.

*Student has
spend in delivers her/his errors. *Student lacks no fluidity and
preparation lines while *Student spent any fluidity in is obviously not
for their following their an appropriate movement and prepared.
performance? blocking amount of time delivery of
20.0% confidently.
preparing for lines; did not
*Student project. spend nearly
obviously enough time in
spent a preparation.
significant
amount of time
on project and
came to class
ready and
prepared.

FOCUS *Student stays *Student *Student never *Student

Does the completely weaves in and truly immerses makes little to
student retain immersed in out of enough into no attempt at
focus (stay in their character character their character staying in any
character) throughout the slightly to produce any type of
throughout entire throughout kind of character.

the entire performance.

performance.
believability.
*Student lacks
performance? *Student never *Student subtly *Student's focus and
10.0% breaks focus, breaks focus focus is easily seems
even during when thinking broken; unprepared.
missed lines/ of next line/cue attention
cues. or out of wavers often.
obvious
nervousness.
OVERALL *If monologue - *If monologue - *If monologue - *If monologue -
TECHNIQUE N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A

If graded *Student's *Student's *Student's *Student's

performance awareness and awareness and awareness and awareness and
is part of a application of application of application of application of
scene or techniques techniques techniques techniques
production taught is very taught is taught is weak.
taught is non
rather than a apparent.
acceptable.
*Student existent.

monologue, *Student *Student seems to listen *Student has

assessment listens and listens and little and reacts no concept of
should be reacts to reacts to to character's how to listen or
made on character's character's inappropriately, react to other
student's appropriately, appropriately, and is involved characters on
ability to work and is involved and is involved in meaningful stage.
with others in meaningful in meaningful stage buisness
5.00% stage business stage buisness throughout
throughout the throughout little of the
whole most of the performance.
performance. performance.

SLATE *Student *Student *Student *Student

Does the delivers name delivers name delivers name delivers name
student clearly and clearly and clearly and poorly because
introduce with with with of no
themselves confidence
confidence
confidence
projection and/
with *Student *Student *Student lacks or poor diction

confidence initiates eye initiates eye awareness of *Student lacks

and clarity? contact and is contact and is body language.
awareness of
5.00% fully aware of fully aware of *Student does body language.

body language. body language. not make an *Student

Feet are Feet are intentional shows little to
planted and planted and choice in no effort in
there is no there is no personality personality
nervous nervous presented. presented.
movement.
movement.

*Student *Student does

delivers slate not make an
with intentional
personality. choice in
personality
presented.
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