Jerzy Grotowski – Texts and Contexts
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| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 202JGT | exam | 2 | 3 hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 19 to 29 hours of self-study | English, Czech | summer |
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Department
Předmět zajišťuje Department of Authorial Creativity and Pedagogy
Contents
I. Stage theatre (1959-1969):
- Stage theatre 13 order and the peak of Theatre Laboratorium works,
- exerises and their changes, actors and their changes,
- Towards a Poor Theatre (1968) - world response and changes in direction (1969-71).
II. Deserted Theatre (1970-1976); Institute Laboratorium:
- Phases „active cultures“ para-theatre, projects, Brzezinka,
- Universita Narodu Wroclaw, University searching for Venice - 1975,
- traveling for Theatre sources 1976-1982.
III. Grotowski in the world (1982-1999):
- American phase (1983, Irvine, California - objective drama).
- Italian phase (1985 Pontedera - Il Centro di Lavoro di Jerzy Grotowski).
- Performer teacher (1986-1996) - Dept. of Theatre Anthropology 1997 College de France.
IV. Main figure from Grotowski's nest and inheritance issues:
- Actors, dramaturgist, directors, teachers, intepreters - theatrology, filmmakers, collection makers.
Learning outcomes
The course aim is to introduce students to the main phases of Jerzy Grotowski's work.
Prerequisites and other requirements
DAMU students, able to study the assigned texts (electively in Czech, English, Polish) may register for the course. Capacity is 10 people. Priority is given to Czech and international Dept. of Alternative and Puppet Theater students.
Literature
I.
- J. Grotowski: Towards a poor Theatre. ed. E. Barba, Odin Teatrets Forlag 1968
- nebo J. Grotowski: Ku teatrowi ubogiemu. Instytut Grotowskiego, Wroclaw 2007
- nebo J. Grotowski - Teksty z lat 1965-1969, ed. J.Degler, Z. Osiński, Wroclaw 1989
- nebo J. Grotowski a Teatr Laboratorium – texty (3 části), ed. J. Pilátová, Praha 1990
II.
- J.Pilátová: Hnízdo Grotowského; na prahu divadelní antropologie. Praha 2009 (vybrané kapitoly anglicky nebo polsky)
- nebo Zbigniew Osiński: Jerzy Grotowski. Źródla, inspiracje, konteksty I, II. Slowo/obraz terytoria. Gdańsk 1998
- nebo anglicky výbor z Osińského Grotowski and his Laboratory, 1986
III.
- Peter Brook With Grotowski. Theatre is Just a Form. Inst. GrotowskiegoWroclaw 2009
- nebo Teksty zebrane. Grotowski. Inst. Grotowskiego, Inst.Teatralny, Warszawa 2012
- nebo překlady Grotowského in Svět a divadlo a Divadelní revue,dle bibl. Hnízda Grotowského
IV.
- Ludwik Flaszen: Grotowski & Company. Odin Teatret + The Grotowski Institute, 2009
- Virginie Magnat: Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance. Meetings with
- Remarkable Women. Routledge New York, London 2014
Evaluation methods and criteria
Credit base on class participation (75% attendance), in place of attendance is a written interpretative tex, studied during absences.
Further information
No schedule has been prepared for this course