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Tsungirai Wachenuka in SLAP. BANG. KISS. Photo: Tiffany Garvie

Interactive

Expressive Skills

VCE Drama

VCE Drama students can use these interactive flashcards to remember and apply the expressive skills.

By Nick Tranter

Expressive skills are used to express and realise a character. Expressive skills may be used in different ways in different performance styles.

The Study Design for VCE Drama describes four expressive skills: voice; movement; gesture; and facial expression.

Click the arrows in these interactive flashcards to recall the definitions, and read examples of each expressive skill in Melbourne Theatre Company productions.