Stage Design Propaedeutic 1

Course unit code:

203SCP1

Course unit title:

Mode of delivery:

zápočet

Range:

4/T

Type of course unit:

compulsory subject

Level of course unit:

Year of study

1st year

Semester when the course unit is delivered

zimní

Number of ECTS credits allocated:

Garant předmětu:

Jan BURIAN

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan BURIAN

Study Objectives:

Cílem studia je uvědomělé rozvíjení (kultivace) scénického smyslu režisérů, dramaturgů, scénografů i teoretiků a kritiků z hlediska chápání a vytváření jevištného obrazu, resp. dramatické situace. Jde přitom jak o jeho praktické („instinktivní“) uplatňování na úrovni imaginativního myšlení, tak o seznámení s příslušnými pojmy, které umožňují reflexi příslušné scénické aktivity, nezbytnou už z hlediska jejího úspěšného dotvoření, a to i ve spojitosti s možností vzájemného dorozumění inscenačního týmu.

Mode of delivery:

Semináře, praktická cvičení a jejich reflexe.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Creative participation in producing at least one (developed) staged scene with dramaturgists, directors and stage designers in their respective fields and theorists in principle dramaturgists.

Recommended optional programme components

Continuous monitoring of theatre novelty, progressive productions and films and exceptional acting performances.

Course contents:

The 1st semester proceeds from simple static scenes (tableaux) expressing a certain situation to their playing out in time and space. This playing out involves developing of students' stage sense, a decisive component of which is feeling for a spatial solution allowing relevant movement in a given arrangement, based on awareness of the corresponding energy properties of each (stage) space. This stage sense is developed both with respect to the visual (i.e. stage design in the narrow sense) at the level where there is a meeting of the view of the director, stage designer and public, and with respect to internal feel (i.e. the dramatic) that is decisive for actual, conscious stage action (and for audiences experiencing it). One could speak of acting sense, if directors, stage designers, dramatists, dramaturges and even critics and theorists did not also need it to an appropriate degree. Clearly the playing out of the given scenes is based primarily on developing stage sense at the level of directing/stage design or dramaturgy and not specifically at the acting level, although participation by students from all fields as actors is also important for real learning of the basics of stagecraft (i.e. learning „from within“). When conceiving and developing individual scenes, students alternating in various roles also learn teamwork or the art of a creative production dialogue.

Study materials:

Jaroslav Vostrý: Režie je umění, Praha (AMU) 2001

Otakar Zich: Estetika dramatického umění, Praha 1986

Michail Čechov: O herecké technice, Praha 1996

Also see the literature for the Creative Writing course

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Classes, exercises and their review.

Assessment methods and criteria

Creative participation in production of at least one (developed) stage performance, as the dramaturgist, director, set designer in the appropriate study in theory, usually dramaturgy.

Language of instruction:

Czech

Work placement(s):

Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:

	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 K222 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:00–18:00 (paralelka 1)
Tue
Fri
Thu
Fri

Datum	Den	Čas	Tutor	Místo	Notes	Č. paralelky
	Mon	15:00–18:00		Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1

Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

Scénografie (Bc.) (compulsory subject)