Work on Performance 5

Subject guarantor:

Karel MAKONJ

Name of lecturer(s):

David JAŘAB, Alois TOMÁNEK

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:

Exams, classes, open hours, performances.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

1. communicativeness

2. partnership

3. ability for undiluted concentration

Recommended optional programme components:

Visits to recommended theatre productions and festivals. Participation in recommended workshops, courses and colloquiums.

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 on the studied productions

- sets of various types of puppet

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Exams, classes, open hours, presentations.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Sensitive grading of the artistic creativity should not be focused only on the evaluation of the resulting form for presentation, but primarily on a monitoring of the creative process and student activity during the entire semester.

Course web page:

Note:

The course is modified during the semester according to the year's lead instructor requirements and demands.

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:

• Režie a dramaturgie alternativního a loutkového divadla (Bc.) (main subject)