Relations in Space 2

Tutor:

Karel VOSTÁREK

Synopsis:

We continually move within the space around us. This effects - whether we want or not - our sizze, divisions, form, orientation, etc. The acts, which are the bases of dramatic situations also take place in a space. They mutually change or supplement the original relationship of the figures involved as well as to the space. This course employs knowledge and experience acquired in working with materials and expanding abilites to theatrically and creatively sense a mass and space arrangement at the level of the selected profession. This is an introduction to set design disciplines.

Prerequisites:

A condition for completing the course is the completion of one's own stage design proposal. As well an explanation and defense of the concept on the stage plan of the narrative.

Study Objectives:

In this course particular attention is paid to acquiring experience in working with material and expanding creative and theatrical abilities in the perception of quality materials and the spatial organization at a professional level.

Course aims:

1. Introduce students with the basic possibilities in composition and spatial relationships (architecture, sculpting, the surroundings, topology).

2. Provide students the basic information regarding the development of theatre spaces, stage design and their individual media (types of theatre spaces, stage design instruments.

3. Provide students direct experience in working with a drama text with consideratoin of the space and stage design (the path from the text to the drama space).

The result is to understand the place and sense of stage design in the proces of creating a theatre staging or drama event. The student should be able to use creative elements for staging as a part of their theatre language in practice.

Outline and Syllabus:

1. Development of stage spaces and stage design instruments. Form and orientation of the stage and audience.

2. Stage design dramaturgy: practical experience analysing a text from a set design viewpoint.

3. Creative directorial concept - constructing the creative directorial concept with a particular text and its objective recording using creative-graphic instruments.

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 bakalářský dramatická výchova - komb. (compulsory subject)