PROJECT 8 ; LIVE PERFORMANCE (RUS104 PERFORMANCE & AWARDS NIGHT 2013)

LIVE PERFORMANCE

•    All RUS104 Students’ Task
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•  All students of RUS104 need to organize a special event as a ‘closing ceremony’ to their one-semester‘learning-by-doing’ studio life.

• The ceremony (named as ‘RUS104 Performance and Awards Night’) will take place at Dewan Kuliah D, USM (next to Penerbit USM).

• The event involves a series of live performances by 7 major-based groups, multimedia presentation, award  giving ceremony, and a farewell dinnerTo ensure that the event is successfully managed and organized, a main committee with following subcommittees should be formed:                                                                                                                                               
• i. Protocol & Official Ceremony
• ii. Stage, Backdrops & Decorations
• iii. Prizes & Souvenirs
• iv.Media, Publicity & Audio Visuals
• v. Technical, Performance & Logistic
• vi.Food & Beverages.
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•  The ceremony (named as ‘RUS104 Performance and Awards Night’) will take place at the Dewan Kuliah D, USM (next to Penerbit USM).Major-based Groups’ Task

• The theme for the Performance Night is ‘The Lost Kingdoms’. In line with the theme, each major-based group should represent the specific Nusantara kingdoms as follows:

       i.Architecture – Srivijaya
      ii.Interior Design – Singhasari
     iii.Urban & Regional Planning – Langkasuka
     iv.Quantity Surveying – Majapahit
     v.Building Surveying – Pagaruyung
     vi.Building Technology – Mataram
    vii.Construction Management – Demak

For this purpose, all members of the group should  ‘design’ and wear the costumes that can reflect their respective kingdom to the event.

•  Each major-based group should come up with its own sub-theme (or concept) of the 10 minutes Live Performance that is relevant to the stipulated main theme
• .The creative ‘Live Performance’ can be freely chosen from these types of presentation:

                                    i. Acting
                                    ii. Singing
                                   iii. Dancing (e.g. folk or contemporary dance, battle of the
                                        dance, LED Dance etc.)
                                   iv. Artistic / Inventive Live Show (Live Painting etc.)
                                   v. Musical Theatre
                                  vi. etc....

• Each group is encouraged to explore the meaning of its performance sub-theme and interpret it through creative performance, props, backdrops, backgroundmultimedia, sound and lighting. 
• The performance will be evaluated based on several criteria like excitement, contents and moral values, originality, costume & props, musical & sound direction and sense of creativity