Workshop of Clownery 1

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Subject guarantor:

Petra OSWALDOVÁ, Ctibor TURBA

Name of lecturer(s):

Petra OSWALDOVÁ, Ctibor TURBA

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

Theme and an instrument: Clownery.

Task: Discovery of a clown in myself and „my“ clown for the stage.

1. Feeling for a movement in a stage space.

2. Improving of a mind-body condition through the movement.

3. Body expression skills.

4. Training of a repeating of the improvisation.

Mode of study:

40 lessons in a summary divided into three blocks. With the guest pedagogue.

Prerequisites and co-requisites:

1. Body-mind health.

2. Coordinated movement.

3. Feeling for space.

4. Motional imagination.

5. Musicality.

6. Ability to review and analyze what I have seen.

7. Ability of a self-reflection.

8. To assume basic rules of a clownery.

Course contents:

Clownery, buffoonery.

1. Experimentation through rehearsals and short etudes.

2. Exploration of a space.

3. Tempo and tempo-rhythm exploring.

4. Mask exploration- a clown nose.

5. Play with an audience.

6. Discovering the clown.

7. The individual etude.

Recommended or required reading:

KRÖSCHLOVÁ, Eva: Jevištní pohyb. Praha: AMU 2002.

LECOQ, Jacques: Theatre of Movement and Gesture. ISBN-13: 978-0415359443.

REIDINGER, Jiří: Když bolí úsměv. Praha: AMU 2008.

TURBA, Ctibor: Cirkus Alfred. Praha: Divadlo Alfred 2006.

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on:

1. Attendance of the whole workshop.

2. Interest and personal creativity.

3. The individual etude.

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Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2015/2016:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

• Authorial Acting in English (M.A.) (compulsory subject)