Alternative World Theatre in the 20th and 21st Century 1
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 204ASD1 | credit | 2 | 2 lecture hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 32 to 42 hours of self-study | English, Czech | winter |
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Department
Předmět zajišťuje Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre
Contents
Contemporary work in the performing arts in the form of profiles and examples of the work of contemporary theatre, dance, visual puppetry, musical theatre and performance. The main focus is on creators in the field of post-dramatic and post-spectacular theatre, mainly from the Occidental performing circle - Europe and the USA (John Cage, Tadeusz Kantor, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, Heiner Goebbels, Rimini Protokoll, Christoph Schlingensief, Christoph Marthaler, Forced Entertainment, Gob Squad, Piotru Urbanski, Survival Research Laboratories). The seminar focuses on annotated excerpts from the works.
Learning outcomes
To introduce students to the most diverse trends in contemporary world theatre. Emphasis is placed primarily on the diversity of contemporary theatre and the dissolution of borders between individual artistic forms. Particular attention is devoted to post-dramatic or non-interpretive theatre forms.
Prerequisites and other requirements
- Ability to analyse and reflect in writing.
- At least passive knowledge of the English language.
Literature
Recommended reading:
John Cage: Silence, Composition in Retrospect
Vincent Katz: Black Mountain College
Kazimierz Braun: Druhá divadelní reforma?
Jan Hyvnar: Herec v moderním divadle
Eugenio Barba - Nicole Savarese: Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology
Hans-Thies Lehmann: Postdramatické divadlo, Postdramatic Theatre, Brecht Lesen, Das politische Schreiben
Rochard Schechner: Performance Theory
Arnold Aronson:Looking Into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography, American Avant-Garde Theatre: History, Amerciká divadelní avantgarda, Pohled do propasti: Eseje o scénografii
Patrick Primavesi: Heiner Müller Handbuch
Erika Fischer Lichte: Aesthetics of Performativity, The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics
Stephen Bottoms and Matthew Goulish: Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology and Goat Island
Peter Brook: Prádzny prostor, Pohyblivý bod, The Empty Space, The Shifting Point
Elinor Fuchs: The Death of Character, Perspectives on Theater after Modernism, Indiana University Press, 1996
Jon Whitmore: Directing Postmodern Theatre
Gob Squad and the Impossible Attempt To Make Sense of It All
Tim Etchells: Doing Time, Endland
Heiner Goebbels: Proti gesamtkunstwerk, Komposition als Inscenierung, Aesthetic of Absence
Thomas Irmer: Die Bühnerepublik
Eric Salzmann, Thomas Desi: The New Music Theatre
Jonathan Kalb: The Theater of Heiner Müller
Andre Lepecki: Exhausting Dance
Gerald Siegmund: Abwesenheit
Evaluation methods and criteria
A condition for acquiring credit in the winter semester is 80% class participation. A condition for sitting the exam in the Summer semester is also a condition for successful completion of the course is class participation, completion of the course in the form of a 5 page essay reviewing the instruction content over the entire year.
Note
This course may be attended by a limited number of Production Dept. and Theory and Critique Dept. students.
Further information
This course is an elective for all students of this school
Schedule for winter semester 2024/2025:
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| Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
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| Mon | 15:00–16:30 | Lukáš JIŘIČKA | Posluchárna - Hallerův sál Karlova 26, Praha 1 |
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Schedule for summer semester 2024/2025:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Scenography - Theatrical Scenography in EN (M. A.) (Elective subjects)
- Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (Elective subjects)
- Acting for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (Elective subjects)
- Acting for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (Elective subjects)
- Alternative and puppet theatre (M.A.) (Elective subjects)
- Directing and Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (Elective subjects)
- Directing for Devised and Object Theatre in English (M.A.) (Elective subjects)
- Directing for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (Elective subjects)
- Stage Design for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (Elective subjects)
- Stage design of Alternative and Puppet Theatre (Elective subjects)
- Stage Design for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (Elective subjects)
- Acting for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (Elective subjects)
- Directing of Devised and Object Theatre (Elective subjects)
- Directing and Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (B.A.) (Elective subjects)
- Arts Management (M.A.) (Required elective subjects)
- Arts Management (M.A.) (Required elective subjects)