Relations in Space 1

Tutor:

Karel VOSTÁREK

Synopsis:

We constantly move in the space which surrounds us. This effects us - whether we wish or not - with it's size, divisions, form, orientation, etc. The actions which are the basis of a dramatic situation also occur in a space. They mutually fullfil or change the original relationship of the acting figures and the space itself as well. This course addresses knowledge and experience obtained in working with materials and masses and expanding the theatrical and creative skills of perceiving of masses and spatial organization at the professional level. This is an introduction to the set design discipline.

Prerequisites:

A condition for completing the course is the creation of one's own stage design proposal. The explication and defense of the concept on the floor plan of the narrative.

Study Objectives:

This course covers mainly attending to experience acquired in working with material and masses and expanding theatre and creative skills in the perception of masses qualities and spatial arrangement for the selected professional level.

The goals are:

1. Introduce students to the fundamentally possible compositional and spatial relationships (architecture, sculpture, surroundings, topography),

2. Provide students with fundamental information about the development of theatre space, stage design and it individual tools (types of theatre spaces, stage design tools),

3. Provide students with personal practical experience with a drama text considering the space and stage design (the path from the text to the drama space).

The result is to be an understanding of the place and sense of the stage design in the theatre staging or drama event creative process. The student should be able to use creative elements in practice in the structure of a staging as a part their theatre language.

Outline and Syllabus:

1. Development of stage space and set design facilities. Form and orientation of the stage and audience.

2. Set design dramaturgy: Practical experience in text analysis from a set design viewpoint.

3. Creative directorial conception - buiding the creative directorial conception for a particular text and its objective notation via creative-graphic means.

Study materials:

ARTAUD, Antonin

1938 Le Théâtre et son double; přel. Jan Kopecký, Ladislav Šerý, Divadlo a jeho dvojenec (Praha: Herrmann & synové)

BRAUN, Kazimierz

1979 Druga reforma teatru?; přel. Jiří Vondráček, Druhá divadelní reforma? (Praha: Divadelní ústav-Městská knihovna-AMU-JAMU, 1993)

BROCKETT, Oscar G.

1968, 1999 History of the Theatre; přel. Milan Lukeš a Zdena Benešová, Dějiny divadla (Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny-Divadelní ústav, 1999)

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)

ČECHOVÁ, Jana

1982 Kostým v amatérském divadle (Praha: SKKS)

HEROUT, Jaroslav

1961 Staletí kolem nás (Praha: Orbis)

JINDRA, Vladimír

1983 Specifičnost scénografie (Praha: Divadelní ústav)

KOUŘIL, Miroslav

1945 Divadelní prostor (Praha: ÚPUP)

KYBALOVÁ, Ludmila-HERBENOVÁ, Olga-LAMAROVÁ, Milena

1973 Obrazová encyklopedie módy (Praha: Artia Praha)

MAREŠOVÁ, Sylva (ed.)

1987 Naše současná loutkářská scénografie. Scénografie 55 (Praha: Divadelní ústav)

PTÁČKOVÁ, Věra

1982 Česká scénografie XX. století (Praha: Odeon)

1995 Zrcadlo světového divadla (Praha: Divadelní ústav)

PÖRTNER, Paul

1960 Experiment Theater; přel. Jan Rak, Experimentální divadlo (Praha: Orbis, 1965)

SCÉNOGRAFIE

1982 Scénografie 47 (Praha: Divadelní ústav)

STEHLÍKOVÁ Eva

1993 Římské divadlo (Praha: Koniasch Latin Press)

2005 Antické divadlo (Praha: Karolinum)

TOMÁNEK, Alois

1986, 1989 Scénický prostor loutkového divadla. Díl 1, 2 (Praha: SPN)

VACKOVÁ, Růžena

1948 Výtvarný projev v dramatickém umění (Praha: V. Tomsa)

VITRUVIUS

De architectura libri decem; přel. Alois Otoupalík, Deset knih o architektuře (Praha: Svoboda, 1979)

ZAVARSKÝ, Ján

1993 Scénografia. Kapitolky zo scénografie (Bratislava: Osvetový ústav)

ZICH, Otakar

1987 Estetika dramatického umění. Teoretická dramaturgie (Praha, Panorama - 2. vyd.)

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 magisterský dramatická výchova (compulsory subject)