Directing 2

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
204MDDI2	credit	3	2 hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 54 to 69 hours of self-study	English	summer

Subject guarantor

Jiří ADÁMEK

Name of lecturer(s)

Branislav MAZÚCH

Department

Předmět zajišťuje Department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre

During the semester students will work on three succesive practical tasks, focusing on director's work. Each task will be based on a different trigger, chosen together with students: texts (fictional or scientific literature), images (photography, drawings or paintings), recent events (documentary approach), etc. The goal is to try in practice, on small-scale projects, the entire directing process: from the scope of a topic and drafting a concept, choice and spatial composition of theater components, towards a rough performative form that can communicate with target audience. The emphasis will be on work with situation, spatial relationships, rhythm and overal composition of performative forms.

Learning outcomes

Course graduate:

will cultivate the ability to define, keep and develop a personal; approach/interest/fascination for artistic research based on a specific material;
will develop the skill of sharing their approach to the topic and motivate their collaborators;
will aquire the ability to think through a situation and spatial relationships;
will cultivate the ability of composition and rhythm in performative forms.

Prerequisites and other requirements

None.

Literature

Bogart, Anne: A director prepares; And then, you act; What´s the story

Kleon, Austin: Steal like an artist; Show your work!; Keep going

Mitchell, Katie: The Director´s Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre

Evaluation methods and criteria

75% of attandance.

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