Scenology 3

Subject guarantor:

Jaroslav VOSTRÝ

Name of lecturer(s):

Jaroslav VOSTRÝ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

An introduction to the basics of scene manifestations in the perspective of its particular and non-particular implementation and their relationship.

Mode of study:

A combination of a presentation of the concepts and proper analyses of particular (particularly non-specific) events selected by the students themselves.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

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

Recommended optional programme components:

No elective requirements.

Course contents:

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.

Recommended or required reading:

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

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Classes

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credits are awarded based on the submission of work with a view to the active participation in course discussion.

Course web page:

http://casopisdisk.amu.cz/cs/temata/scenicnost-a-scenologie

Note:

Elective - for advanced study years.

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:

• Dramaturgie činoherního divadla (Mgr.) (optional subject)
• Režie činoherního divadla (Mgr.) (optional subject)