Dialogical Acting Training 4
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202EKD4 | credit | 2 | 2 hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 32 to 42 hours of self-study | English | winter |
Subject guarantor
Name of lecturer(s)
Markéta MACHKOVÁ, Eva SLAVÍKOVÁ, Pavel ZAJÍČEK
Department
The subject provides Department of Authorial Creativity and Pedagogy
Contents
A mental-physical discipline created by Prof. Ivan Vyskočil. The foundation is experience and trials in behaviour (speaking, acting) with oneself (with and internal partner), in principle, alone - self-dialogue. To learn authentic, spontaneous, acting and interplay behaviour (behaviour and experience) and produce publically in situations of „public aloneness“ (Stanislavsky), with the presence and attention of „the audience“. In situations when - that is if - friends, observers are not there and the exclusion of visual and tactile contact.
Learning outcomes
Dialogue behaviour with an internal partner is a physical-mental discipline whose creator is Prof. Ivan Vyskočil.
Largely this can be:
- a path to self-discovery, self-acquaintance, self-acceptance and self-actualization,
- creation of the physical-mental condition for creative commuications „conductive“ empathy,
- experience, recognition and study of drama acting principles,
- experience, recognition and study of non-subject acting,
- a path to understanding, „embodiment“ and realization of defined challenges, questions, defined tasks, texts,
- method of trying, searching, perceiving, being attentive and finding.
Prerequisites and other requirements
Creativity, analysis and crictical skills.
Literature
Čunderle, Michal and Komlosi, Alexander: Ivan Vyskočil: A Life Commitment to the Alternative, in Slavic and East European performance, Volume 31, No1. Spring 11, p. 63–73.
Čunderle, Michal, Komlosi, Alexander and Zich, Jan: Ivan Vyskočil – A portrait. Internal material of the department, 2010.
Hořínek, Zdeněk: The Non-theatre of Ivan Vyskočil, Czech + Slovak theatre, November 1997, No. 6, p. 5–11.
Vyskočil, Ivan and company: (Inter)acting with the inner partner. (Edited by Michal Čunderle and Alex Komlosi), Czech translated by Alexander Komlosi. Praha: Brkola 2011.
The Landscape of a Life – film by Pavel Kolaja – a portrait of Professor Ivan Vyskočil, 2009.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Credit is awarded primarily based on one's experience in the classes of dialogue negotiations. A condition for successfull completion of the course is two written reviews per semester. As well, an acquaintance with the recommended literature is required.
Note
This course may be either in Czech or English.
Schedule for winter semester 2024/2025:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
Schedule for summer semester 2024/2025:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Authorial Acting in English (B.A.) (Elective subjects)