Directing 1
- Course unit code:
- 204RE1
- Course unit title:
- Directing 1
- Mode of delivery:
- zápočet
- Range:
- 2/T
- Type of course unit:
- compulsory subject
- Level of course unit:
- bakalářský
- Year of study
- 1st year
- Semester when the course unit is delivered
- zimní
- Number of ECTS credits allocated:
- 2
- Garant předmětu:
- Josef KROFTA
- Name of lecturer(s):
- Jiří ADÁMEK
- Study Objectives:
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Senior MA program teacher - as selected by the student
1. Familiarising students with the basic concepts of direction.
2. Developing and formulating students' authorial creative potential.
3. Developing an ability for practical directorial work (space, orchestrating different elements, rehearsal process , theoretical preparation).
4. Learning to cooperate with and direct actors. Ability to work with a team.
5. Developing and teaching a theoretical reflection on own work.
- Mode of delivery:
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Lectures, classes, moderated discussion, creativity exercises and one's rehearsal with acting students. Collaboration with set-design students and external colleagues.
- Prerequisites and co-requisites:
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1. Creativity
2. Capacity for reflection
3. Ability to communicate and a sense for team work
4. Capacity for analysis and synthesis
5. Spontaneity
6. Creative gifts
7. Organisational abilities
- Recommended optional programme components
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Visits to contemporary theatre productions and festivals, exhibitions and music concerts. Participation in recommended seminars, colloquiums, professional conferences.
- Course contents:
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Curriculum:
1. Dramatic situation. Performing in the situation.
2. Plot, motive, theme. Building the situation.
3. Acting. The actor's role in the situation. The work of acting.
4. Team collaboration with the dramaturg, set designer, composer. Theoretical preparation of the production.
5. Practical directing work and its reflection.
6. The direction itself. The whole of the production.
Syllabus:
From the beginning the study process is built around the dual practical and theoretical elements of teaching. Emphasis is placed on students' authorial, creative and authentic approach to the study subject. The first year emphasises research into the possibilities of theatrical direction from literary authorial creation and its transfer to a theatrical form. At a theoretical level this involves the designation and development of a situation as the basic component of a stage production. Another phase of study focuses on searching for stage devices and their orchestration. At this stage it is essential to study and research acting possibilities, especially in a practical situation. From the beginning, students learn team collaboration with a dramaturg, fine-artist, and musician; in the third year this will lead to an ability to realise a theatrical production. Study shall include regular reflection on practical direction with an emphasis on the ability to precisely formulate and analyse individual phases of work on productions and study assignments.
- Study materials:
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K.S.Stanislavskij: My Life in Art.
Peter Brook : Empty Space.
Jan Císař : Theory of Puppet Theatre Acting.
Bertolt Brecht : Myšlenky o divadle
Denis Diderot: Herecký paradox
Jan Hyvnar: The Actor in Modern Theatre
E.G.Craig : The Actor and Uber-Marionette
Otakar Zich: Aesthetics of Dramatic Art
Jiří Veltruský: Contribution to Theatre Theory
Anatolij Efros : Theatre My Love
Jindřich Honzl: Mimický znak a mimický příznak
And others
- Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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Attendance at theatre performances, festivals and other recommeded cultural events, participation at recommended workshops and classes.
- Assessment methods and criteria
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The course is evaluated based on continual assignment of creativity tasks and student activity during the course of the semester (50%) and one's semester creative work and it's review (50%).
- Language of instruction:
- Czech
- Work placement(s):
- Pracovní stáž není u tohoto předmětu zavedena.
- Course web page:
- Note:
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This course is only for a closed study-year group. Each study program specifies the course of study determined by the study year lead instructor.
- Schedule for winter semester 2011/2012:
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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 Tue Fri Thu Fri Datum Den Čas Tutor Místo Notes Č. paralelky Tue 16:00–17:30 ADÁMEK J. Učebna
Karlova 26, Praha 1paralelka 1 - Schedule for summer semester 2011/2012:
- The schedule has not yet been prepared
- The subject is a part of the following study plans: