Work on Performance 5

Subject guarantor:

Jiří HAVELKA

Name of lecturer(s):

Jiří HAVELKA

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

1. The ability to play a full actor's role in the production work.

2. The ability for authorial, actor's formulation of the dramatic text.

3. The ability to understand and master all forms of stage symbiosis between the actor and puppet.

4. The ability as an actor to use the stage space for actor and puppet.

5. Authorial acting with preference in addressing the child viewer.

Mode of study:

Semester year's production and projects, primarily in collaboration with directing, dramaturgy and set-design students. Productions of invited instructors in block instruction. Workshops on given topics with presentation.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

1. communicativeness

2. partnership

3. ability for undiluted concentration

Recommended optional programme components:

Course contents:

Curriculum

1. Involvement in small authorial creations led by the teacher.

2. Creation of short productions on fairy-tale themes - authorial work.

3. Collaboration with students of direction-dramaturgy on their subjects; supervision by the teacher.

4. Collaboration with students of set design in creating the puppet, mask, costume, space.

5. Realisation of small productions led by RD students.

6. Appreciating the viewer.

7. Involvement in performance projects in an untraditional setting.

8. Actor?s role in a full production by the school theatre.

Syllabus

In this subject students gradually apply the knowledge they've acquired when studying Acting. The first phase stresses the ability to communicate with a partner in finding the optimal form of expressing the actor?s theme and the relevant situation, while regularly emphasing the function of the subject, the puppet. The study leads to the formation of fairy-tale plays for the youngest viewers with an emphasis on the actor's authorial participation. Specific production projects created with students of direction-dramaturgy are the precondition for generating valuable productions both in school theatre and in site-specific projects. All production attempts and realisations are reflected on regularly during studies.

Recommended or required reading:

- literature:

works of Czech and world dramatic literature

accompanying literature to the productions studied

- sets of various types of puppet

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

1. Work on productions and projects.

2. On-going improvement in mind-body coordination disciplines.

3. Written review

4. Potential theory preparations for independent projects.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Participation and creativity during work on productions and projects. Independent creative skills. Overall and self-review skills.

Course web page:

Note:

This course is instructed in close cooperation between the Directing and Set-design studies.

Instruction schedule see: www DAMU / katedra ALD / Rozvrhy hodin

Schedule for winter semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2012/2013:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Herectví alternativního a loutkového divadla (Mgr.) (main subject)