Work on Performance 8

Subject guarantor:

Karel MAKONJ, Miloslav KLÍMA, Jiří HAVELKA

Name of lecturer(s):

Karel MAKONJ, Miloslav KLÍMA, Jiří ADÁMEK, Marek BEČKA, Jiří HAVELKA

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

1. The capacity for theatrical creation in practical form.

2. The ability to produce your own authorial creation.

3. The ability to produce a normal theatre text.

4. The abiliity to work with a partner on stage, puppet, material.

5. The ability to communicate with the director, dramaturg, designer and others.

Mode of study:

Exams, consultations, supervision, discussions, classes, reviews.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

1. Creativity

2. Ability to reflect

3. Ability to communicate and a sense for team work

4. Ability to analyse and synthesise

5. Spontaneity

6. Creative ability

7. Organisational ability

Recommended optional programme components:

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

Course contents:

Curriculum:

1. Individual authorial creation as the starting point for theatre work.

2. Dramatic text as the starting point for the actor's work.

3. Work with the actor, puppet, material.

4. Improvisation.

5. Interacting with a space, relations and roles in a situation. The detail and the whole.

6. What makes the stage work. Costume, music, setting, lighting.

7. Rythm and space.

8. The production whole.

Syllabus:

The subject of production work is the space for a practical examination and test of the director's and actor's approaches, with an emphasis on the individual creativity of students.

The first study phase addresses the ability, under strictly defined conditions, to realise a literary idea while emphasising an understanding of the basic relations that constitute a stage work.

This means understanding the meaning of a situation, acting in the situation, the relation between the whole and the detail etc. of great importance is an evaluation of the use of modes of expression.

Another study phase focuses on how the relevant dramatic text is realised (also for works of collective direction), emphasising the individual authorial approach while concentrating on the ability to communicate with collaborators in the work, above all actors and the director. The final study phase focuses on creating a true theatre production in the DISK theatre, with an emphasis on the work as a whole, a sense for team work and resulting reflections on the work.

Recommended or required reading:

K.S.Stanislavskij: My Life in Art.

Peter Brook : Empty Space.

Jan Císař : Theory of Puppet Theatre Acting

Bertolt Brecht : Thoughts on Theatre

Denis Diderot: The Dramatic Paradox

Jan Hyvnar: The Actor in Modern Theatre

E.G.Craig : The Actor and Uber-Marionnette

Otakar Zich: Aesthetic of Dramatic Art

Jiří Veltruský: Contribution to the Theatre Theory

Anatolij Efros : Theatre: my love

Jindřich Honzl: Mimický znak a mimický příznak

And others

Planned learning activities and teaching methods:

Exams, consultations, classes, open hours, performances.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Student grading originates in the monitoring of participation in the collective creation process and the resulting artistic form and its review.

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 2013/2014:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2013/2014:

	06:00–08:0008:00–10:0010:00–12:0012:00–14:0014:00–16:0016:00–18:0018:00–20:0020:00–22:0022:00–24:00
Mon
Tue
Fri	místnost R208 Kancelář (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 11:00–15:00 (paralelka 1)
Thu	místnost R210 Učebna (Karlova 26, Praha 1) MAKONJ K. 11:30–13:00 (paralelka 1)
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Fri	11:00–15:00		Kancelář Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1
	Thu	11:30–13:00	MAKONJ K.	Učebna Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Dramaturgy for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (main subject)
• Directing for Alternative and Puppet Theatre (M.A.) (main subject)
• Directing for Alternative and Puppet Theatre in English (M.A.) (main subject)