Movement and Space 1

Display Schedule

Subject guarantor:

Petra OSWALDOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s):

Petra OSWALDOVÁ

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:

Regular weekly meetings of the entire study-year in the grand hall.

Use of a large space for motional experimentation.

Feedback on individual movement assignments:

How I see myself/ How I appear to the audience.

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. Entire school-year´s authorial presentation of a buffoonery. The topic: without specifying, created from the improvisation.

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. Class attendance.

2. Interest and personal creativity.

3. Presentation of a group, the entire study-year´s buffoonery.

4. Written review.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2015/2016:

	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	místnost () OSWALDOVÁ P. 09:00–10:30 (paralelka 1)
Tue
Wed	místnost R302 Taneční sál (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 15:30–17:30 (paralelka 1)
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Mon	09:00–10:30	Petra OSWALDOVÁ			paralelka 1
	Wed	15:30–17:30		Taneční sál Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1

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