Playing with Object and Puppet 1

Tutor:

Jiří VYŠOHLÍD

Synopsis:

This course develops the creativity of the student in the area which in working with children, in a form of theatre and for a drama training aspirant - is very important. The instruction gradually moves from plays with a prop, in which the students investigate the object as a prop through experimentation in the relationship between man the object and the space to a play in which the prop collaboratively creates a stage character. A further phase of the course is the acquisition of skill in working with various types of puppets. The object is used in working in small theatre creations in which puppetry processes are used.

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of music and creative arts education at the middle-school level. Fundamental aesthetic and theatrical sense. Desire to experiment and „play.“

Study Objectives:

The goal of the course is to develop the sensitivity of the students to sense the metaphoric and metonymical use of an object for a drama training instructor (the characteristics of the subject, transfer of significance, putting the finishing touches on a subject for theatre use, etc.). Items such as substitute props, animated props, props such as a simple puppet.... Preparation of one's own etude, a „mini-staging“ with a prop. The work with the puppet will be focused upon acquiring basic skills and habits of puppetry theory and practice.

Outline and Syllabus:

1. Introduction to issues, some fundamental concepts and relationships:

- puppets

- puppet theatre

- props in a puppet theatre

2. Props as original material:

- Significance and insignificance of a prop.

- searching for appropriate common and specific props.

3. Characteristics of props and their use in drama training.

- characteristics of the material from which the prop is made and the prop itself

- The theatrical use of the prop characteristics in the original and shifted meaning

4. Shifting meaning based on metaphor and metonymics:

- development of imagination in searchinf for metaphor and metonymics

- „lexicalizing“ and special metaphors

- differences of metaphor and metonymics by linguistic and non-linguistic means.

5. Putting the final touches on a prop for theatre use:

- development of the aesthetic sensitivity of the student

- basic technology, set-design, costume design in animating a prop.

- development of manual dexterity in working with different types of materials

6. Animating a prop:

- a prop as a puppet, manners of animating by puppetry techniques

- creation of an etude

- „brainstorming“ for maximal breadth of use of a prop.

7. Creating a mini-staging:

- the role of pace in working with a prop (phases, relationships and dramatic situations)

- the sound design (voice means, sound effects, instrumentation)

8. Fundamental overview of the types of puppets and working with them:

- introduction to individual types of puppets

- basic practical manipulation of them

Study materials:

BUDÍNSKÁ, Hana

2006 Hry pro šest smyslů. Kartotéka pro loutkáře i neloutkáře, který si umějí hrát s dětmi (Praha: ARTAMA - 6.vydání)

DVOŘÁK, Jan V.

1997 Herectví s loutkou (Praha: DDD-ARTAMA)

JURKOWSKI, Henryk

1993 Szkice z teorii teatru lalek přel. Jana Pilátová, Magie loutky. Skici z teorie loutkového divadla (Praha: Nakladatelství Studia Ypsilon, 1997)

MAŠATOVÁ, Milada

1991 Dramatika s loutkou (Olomouc: OKS-STD)

2000 „O loutkovém divadle hraném dětmi“, Tvořivá dramatika XI, 2000, č.2

OBRAZCOV, Sergej Vladimirovič

1938 Aktjor s kukloj; přel. Jan Malík, Herec s loutkou (Praha: Československý Kompas, 1947)

RICHTER, Luděk

1997 Od předmětu k loutce, od loutky k divadlu (Praha: ARTAMA-DDD)

SOKOL, František a kol.

1987 Svět loutkového divadla (Praha: Albatros)

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2009/2010:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Doporučený bakalářský dramatická výchova - komb. (compulsory subject)
• Doporučený magisterský dramatická výchova (compulsory subject)
• Doporučený magisterský dramatická výchova - tříleté komb. (compulsory subject)