Scenology 4

Tutor:

Jakub KORČÁK, Jaroslav VOSTRÝ

Synopsis:

The seminar familiarizes Master's students of directing, dramaturgy, stage design, theory and criticism with the foundations of theoretical scenology and expands their experience with the stageability of a theatrical production leading to more cases of specific and non-specific stageable and staged expression and develping their awareness of the stagedness of a theatrical production on the basis of studying those cases and (in the case of directors, dramaturges and stage designers) in connection with their own work in the theatre.

Prerequisites:

A submitted term paper supported by an appropriate orientation in basic terms and problems, verifiable in discussion on various theoretical aspects and real cases.

Study Objectives:

The goal of the class is the anchoring (forming of a theoretical foundation) of past experience with practical and theoretical application of stage sense in conscious reflection on stageability and stagedness both in the arts and in life.

Outline and Syllabus:

Familiarization with the foundations of theoretical scenology is based on a term paper concentrating on individual problems relating both to actual stage experiences and current creative activity (directing, dramaturgy and stage design students) and the study of stageability and stagedness outside of the theatre and their relationship to theatrical stageability and stagedness and vice versa (for theory and criticism students). The term paper drawn from reflections (one's own or others') on a staged production (including outside of the theatre) is thus combined with term papers based on researching basic terms and problems. Within the framework of this research including of individual „case studies“ there is confrontation with spontaneous stageability and stagedness of various kinds of societal (political, sports, commercial etc.) activities, specific stagedness (i.e the stagedness of relevant artistic activities including the visual arts) with non-specific stagedness of ceremonies and non-artistic media productions, „acting in life,“ with acting on the stage, acting in a performance production, production with installations, „gesamtkunstwerk“ as the actuating of stagedness of elements of various arts with their theatrical transformation with the spectacle and stagedness of various artistic statements, the potential stagedness of a text with realized stageability of a theatrical production, live staged performances with recorded ones, the stage versus the media, performability, dramaticism etc.

Study materials:

Gajdoš, Július - From Drama Technique to Scenology

Aronson, Arnold - Looking into the abyss: essays on scenography

Baygan, Lee - Techniques of Three-Dimensional Makeup

Buchman, Herman - Stage Makeup

Brandesky, Joe (ed.) - Czech theatre design in the twentieth century: metaphor and irony revisited

Corey, Irene - The mask of reality: an approach to design for theatre

Docherty, Peter; White, Tim (ed.) - Design for performance: from Diaghilev to the Pet Shop Boys

Hopkins, Albert A. - Magic: stage illusions, special effects and trick protography

Lajcha, Ladislav - Hommage to scenography 1920-2000

Oddey, Alison; White, Christine - The Potentials of Spaces: the theory and practice of scenography & performance

Parker, W. Oren; Smith, Harvey K.; Wolf, R. Craig - Scene design and stage lightning

Simonson, Lee - The stage is set

Warre, Michael - Designing and making stage scenery

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 režie ČD (optional subject)