Animation 4

Tutor:

Ilona SEMRÁDOVÁ

Synopsis:

Mannequin - detailed work on how to achieve a high degree of mimetic technique in the puppet. Musical inspiration. Judging the ability to work as a team. Javajka ? finding possibilities in figures' characters and in relations with a live actor. Other examples of illusive and anti-illusive theatre. Javajka and poetry.

Prerequisites:

1. Conscious, gifted, creative behaviour in a stage situation.

2. Developed dramatic imagination.

3. Professional control over animating the puppet.

4. Ability to communicate.

5. Ethics of dramatic creation.

Study Objectives:

1. Appreciating the specific characteristics of puppet theatre.

2. Understanding the principles of animation.

3. Learning the basic puppet types and their technology.

4. Capacity for creativity, imagination, authenticity and the ethics of dramatic creation.

5. Understanding the various types of symbiosis between the actor and the puppet.

Outline and Syllabus:

Curriculum:

1. The hand as puppet, developing playfulness, the actor?s fantasy.

2. Playing with an object, perceiving the qualities of the material, physical laws.

perceiving the form and character of the subject in creating imaginative studies.

3. Puppets ? hand puppet, marionette, mannequin, javajka, defining the specific qualities of individual disciplines through practice.

Syllabus:

Emphasising the specific characteristics of puppet theatre, in which the dramatic component comprises two equal elements: the puppet and the actor. The synchonicity of the puppet?s speech and gesticulation. Artistic skill. Professional control in animating the puppet. Recognising the various types of symbiosis between the actor and the puppet in anti-illusive theatre. A capacity for conscious, creative behaviour in a stage situation while seeking alternative approaches. Study work ? developing potential as an author, the need to consider the whole, construction, gradation, logic, communication, degree of exaggeration, humour, punch-line. Supporting independent thought, individual and multi-layered dramatic representation.

Study materials:

K. Makonj - P. Schuman and his Bread Puppet Theatre

H. Jurkowski - The Magic of the Puppet

J. Císař - Theory of Marionette Theatre Acting

M. Česal - The Live Actor in Puppet Theatre

H. von Kleist - Dancer and Puppet

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon	místnost R213 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) SEMRÁDOVÁ I. 11:00–12:30 (paralelka 1)místnost R213 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) SEMRÁDOVÁ I. 12:30–14:00 (paralelka 1)
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The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený magisterský herectví ALD (subject determining qualification)