Light in Performance - Course 1

Subject guarantor:

Jan BURIAN

Name of lecturer(s):

Jan BURIAN

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

To familiarize students with the technique and artistic quality of light as a creator of space and medium of meaning in a theatrical production.

Mode of study:

Course combining lectures and classes.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Passage of the Bachelor's exam.

Recommended optional programme components:

Monitor of contemporary trends in light design.

Course contents:

Curriculum:

1) lighting techniques and their mastery;

2) light and space;

3) light and decoration;

4) light and the actor;

5) light as a dramatic factor;

6) light as an artistic factor;

7) light and dramatic time.

Syllabus:

Through the course organized in cooperation with the Department of Stage Design and an external specialist (light designer), directing students learn how to use light as a dramatic and artistic factor in a theatrical production both from historical and contemporary examples and from real practice.

Recommended or required reading:

Věra Ptáčková: Česká scénografie XX.století

catalogues of the Quadriennale

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Course takes place as lectures with subsequent debates on the basic topics.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Participation in the course.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Directing for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (compulsory subject)
• Directing for Dramatic Theatre in English (M.A.) (compulsory subject)