Seminar of Theatre Anthropology 3

Subject guarantor:

Jana PILÁTOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Jana PILÁTOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Continuation of the Theatre Anthropology 1 course. It has these aims:

- To introduce theatricality and theatre not only in its aesthetic dimensions.

- To develop the ability to perceive and interpret social-cultural contexts of theatre and theatricality;

- To devleop theatre anthropology ideas and a bearing in the practice and theory contributions of those approaches in examples of world and domestic artists.

- To introduce a range of tasks related to those approaches;

- To inspire students in their own original projects.

The task is expanded to the recognition of particular and non-European cultures (A Montenegrin village, Bali, Haiti, India, etc.) and in relation to this we invite specialist from other faculties or trades.

Mode of study:

Class and group work. Video-screenings (at best repeated samples) and subsequent observations and analysis of offered examples (these are anthropological recording sample or exercises, performances or field events of significant creative ensembles in the spirit of this concept of theatre) expanding student dialogue with other skills in perception and interpreting various qualities of the theatrical, types of work with the audience, etc. Student skills grow in the recognition of the particulars of certain theatre expressions, their senseand an awareness of the potential of theatre anthropology approaches (comparison samples).

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

Completion of Theatre Anthropology 1 and 2.

Recommended optional programme components:

An advantage is participation in at least one theatre-anthropology workshop and a practical knowledge of some non-interpretive theatre (original).

Course contents:

This course continues the first and second semesters of this subject. Through vVideo screenings and interactive analyses, students are introduced to a wide context of this phenomenon:

- theatre anthropology approaches to theatre and its cultural-historical background.

- founders of this concept (J. Grotowski, E. Barba, W. Staniewski, etc.).

- various types of this approach (creative, theatre field and theoriticians and anthropologists. International schools of theatre anthropology and their collaborators).

- its importance for manners of creations for theatre and the reception of theatre.

- overlaps into precursors (theatre reformers of the 20th century, Artaud, Copeau, etc.) and todays artists of „the third anthropological, social“ theatre in the world and domestically. The wider context of the rise of introduction to minority, specific, European phenomena and non-European theatre and searching for domestic parallels in new original theatre. Thorough study of the accompanying writings is required.

Recommended or required reading:

BARBA, Eugenio; SAVARESE, Nicola. Slovník divadelní antropologie: O skrytém umění herců. Přel. Jan Hančil, Dana Kalvodová, Jitka Sloupová a Nina Vangeli. Praha: NLN; Praha: Divadelní ústav, 2000. 288 s. Přel. z: A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology. The Secret Art of the Performer. ISBN 80-7008-109-0 (DÚ). ISBN 80-7106-369-X (NLN).

BRAUN, Kazimierz. Druhá divadelní reforma? Přel. Jiří Vondráček. Praha: Divadelní ústav; Praha: Městská knihovna; Praha: AMU; Brno: JAMU, 1993. 176 s. Přel. z: Druga reforma teatru? ISBN 80-7008-037-X.

PILÁTOVÁ, Jana. Hnízdo Grotowského: Na prahu divadelní antropologie. Praha: Insdtitut umění-Divadelní ústav, 2009. 584 s. ISBN 978-80-70008-239-3.

PILÁTOVÁ, Jana (ed.). Jerzy Grotowski a Teatr Laboratorium: Texty: (první část). Praha: Pražské kulturní středisko, 1990130 s. ISBN 80-85040-05-3.

---. Jerzy Grotowski a Teatr Laboratorium: Texty: (druhá část. Praha: Pražské kulturní středisko, 1990. 126 s. ISBN 80-85040-07-7.

---. Jerzy Grotowski a Teatr Laboratorium: Texty: (třetí část). Praha: Pražské kulturní středisko, 1990. 134 s. ISBN 80-85040-07-8.

TURNER, Victor. Průběh rituálu.Překl. Lucie Kučerová z The Ritual process: Structure and Anti-Structure.Computer Press, Brno 2004, 194 str. ISBN 80-722-6900-3

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

One „outgoing“ course to some current Czech theatrical project (ex, To Malovice to Theatre Continuo, etc.) and group attendance at selected performances and subsequent conversations with the artists.

Assessment methods and criteria:

In the middle of the year - credit, at the end - exam.

Credit is awarded based on:

class participation

attendance (75%)

a course paper, discussed in colloquium. The student will attempt to respond to questions formed by themselves; the response should be supported by a greater view of some covered topics (personality, examples, cultural surroundings), one's own study of the subject literature and complimentary samples in theatre practice (at best, in live theatre which they and other students know, possibly also video).

Course web page:

Note:

Some lessons may be attended by Athoropology 1 &2 students, particularly when there are guest experts.

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:

• Authorial Acting (B.A.) (optional subject)
• Authorial Acting - 3 years (M.A.) (optional subject)