Acting II. 1

Tutor:

Jana SMRČKOVÁ

Synopsis:

The actor's education as a basic subject of expert preparation builds the theoretical and practical bases for an actor's skills important for a pedagogue of dramatic education.

Prerequisites:

A lively temperament, imagination, empathy, sense for the rhythm of word and movement.

Study Objectives:

The basic range of targets is to develop the student's communication skills. Also to develop fantasy and creativity from conscious states and procedures of self-reflection, self-awareness and self-creation, to the psychomatic truth of being and acting, which contradicts the lived idea of acting as a superficially imitative activity. To reveal this cliche as unwelcome is also one of the study's goals.

Outline and Syllabus:

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- To perceive yourself in space.

- To be able to express yourself with non-verbal means.

- To cooperate with your partner using non-verbal means of communication.

- To be able to relax and concentrate on creative acts of a fantastic nature.

- Actor's work on the dialogue.

- Creating an extract from a theatre play or whole file, or students' authorial work.

SYLLABUS

1. Underlining natural signs of talent and a tendency to playfulness.

2. Introduction to specific simple tasks and assigning aligned perception and fantasy.

3. Practices for relaxing the psyche and body:

- finding a state of physical self-confidence,

- practices for reducing or removing nerves,

- work on practices which underline the desire to express yourself in movement (gesture).

4. Perceiving yourself in space:

- with rhythm,

- with music.

5. Simple sctor's studies without texts.

6. Building and developing:

- spatial and animated memory,

- actor's imagination and fantasy.

7. Developing improvisation and training related perception, fantasy, but with the desire to comunicate.

8. More complicated communication exercises.

9. Independence.

10. Acting in pairs - dialogue.

11. Collective work - mutual assessment.

12. Texts as a basis for ??

13. Actor's improvisation.

14. Work on extracts from plays or students' independent work.

Study materials:

BROOK, Peter

1968 The Empty Space; přel. Alois Bejblík, Prázdný prostor (Praha: Panorama, 1988)

1987 The Shifting Point; přel. Jan Hančil, Pohyblivý bod (Praha: Nakladatelství Studia Ypsilon, 1996)

ČECHOV, Michail

1953 To the Actor; přel. Zoja Oubramová, O herecké technice (Praha: Divadelní ústav-DAMU, 1996)

LUKAVSKÝ, Radovan

1981 Být nebo nebýt. Monology o herectví (Praha: SPN)

PILÁTOVÁ, Jana (ed.)

1990 Jerzy Grotowski a Teatr Laboratorium. Texty (První část) (Praha: Pražské kulturní středisko)

1990 Jerzy Grotowski a Teatr Laboratorium. Texty (Druhá část) (Praha: Pražské kulturní středisko)

1990 Jerzy Grotowski a Teatr Laboratorium. Texty (Třetí část) (Praha: Pražské kulturní středisko)

STANISLAVSKIJ, vl. ALEXEJEV, Konstantin Sergejevič

1938 Rabota akťjora nad soboj. Dněvnik uřenika; přel. Jaroslav Hulák, Moje výchova k herectví. Z deníku hereckého adepta (Praha: Athos, 1946)

TAIROV, Alexandr Jakovlevič

1921, 1970 Zapiski režissjora. Staťji, besedy, reči, pis´ma; přel. Alena Morávková spolu se Zdeňkou Psůtkovou, Odpoutané divadlo (Praha: AMU, 2005)

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2008/2009:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený magisterský dramatická výchova (subject determining qualification)