Direction of Alternative and Puppet Theatre (8203R083)

bachelor's programme qualification

Specific admission requirements:

Successful completion of the talent entrance examination, which is intended to demonstrate the candidate`s talent, relationship to the field and ability to collaborate in a team.

Specific arrangements for recognition of prior learning:

The programme does not have any specific requirements for the recognition of prior learning.

The procedure for recognition at AMU is governed by Articles 89 and 90 of the Act on Higher Education Institutions No. 111/1998 Coll., as amended, and by the AMU Attendance and Examination Regulations (Articles 8, 14, 18).

Qualification requirements and regulations

A completed secondary or completed secondary vocational education with a matura examination. Exceptionally (in the case of significant talent) it is possible to admit a candidate conditionally (with the requirement to complete the secondary education with a successful matura examination during the Bachelor`s programme).

Regulations: The Czech education system is governed by the Act on Higher Education Institutions, as amended (Act No. 111/1998 Coll.), and by the internal regulations of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

Field of study characterization

The field of Directing and Dramaturgy of Alternative Theatre in the Theatrical Creation in Non-Traditional Spaces programme is focused on activities of a theatrical, performative and visual character, and is based mainly on interventions into public space. It involves the study of alternative theatrical tendencies of a crossover, interactive or multimedia nature. It is based on a tradition of site-specific projects, para-theatrical activities, visual installations, events and happenings. These interventions are intentionally not purely artistic, but have a significant sociological crossover and impact; they assume the activation of the viewer as well as imaginative perception. Projects emerge in close team and interdisciplinary collaboration. From the point of view of the wide palette of alternative theatre, it is a specific programme with many similarities to and many differences from the department`s regular offerings.

Key learning outcomes:

A graduate of the Bachelor`s programme in Directing and Dramaturgy of Alternative Theatre is equipped with basic psychosomatic proclivities and skills, is oriented in the issues of authorial theatre, and is able to establish contact with the viewer, space and objects. He/she is able to use his/her body as a tool of performance and not just as a psychophysical identity. He/she is oriented in the issues of contemporary post-modern art, and is capable of reflection and self-reflection. He/she is capable of independent, artistically demanding creation in solo as well as collective projects, and of using projects in social interventions. He/she perceives artistic creation not only in the narrow bounds of his/her own work, but also in larger societal contexts and developmental trends.

Occupational profiles of graduates with examples:

A graduate of the Bachelor`s programme in Directing and Dramaturgy of Alternative Theatre is capable of doing independent creative work in non-traditional spaces. He/she is capable of making use of grant space in the Czech Republic and the EU, of participating in public events and festivals such as 4 Days in Motion, etc., of leading thematic workshops and of working in the most variegated authorial projects, in the animation and participative programmes of museums and galleries, and at interdisciplinary symposia, festivals and events involving interdisciplinary and community creation. He/she should be able to realise these events in a creative manner as „turnkey projects“ (from formulating the intent, to project coordination, to the realisation and post-production work).

Access to further studies:

The completed Bachelor`s programme makes it possible for the graduate to enter a continuing Master`s programme in related fields at university-level art schools or at related universities with a humanities or artistic focus.

Examination regulations, assessment and grading:

Studies are assessed by credits and examinations stipulated by study plans. The student is informed of these through the information system. The student registers for examinations using the information system, and is entitled to a second and third attempt to pass an examination. If neither of these attempts proves successful, the Dean may in exceptional cases permit a fourth attempt (administered by a commission). It is not permitted to repeat an examination for the main subjects or to repeat written examinations.

The credit is an ungraded form of assessment of studies. It is allocated upon fulfilment of requirements stipulated for individual subjects and is recorded in the information system with the word „Credited“ (Z). An examination is a graded form of assessment of studies, which tests knowledge and level of creativity in the relevant subjects. In the main subjects, examinations are administered by a commission. Examinations are graded on the scale „A, B, C, D, E, F“.

Graduation requirements:

Completion of the Bachelor`s programme in all subjects and accumulation of the relevant number of credits. Completion of the State Bachelor`s Examination.

A condition of advancement to the Bachelor`s examination is a creative artistic performance in the final Bachelor`s production.

The State Bachelor`s Examination is graded on the scale „A, B, C, D, E, F“. The examination committee shall decide the overall assessment for the state final examination by vote in-camera.

The State Bachelor`s Examination consists of the following parts:

the Bachelor`s diploma thesis and its defence;

the history and theory of the field;

the history and theory of alternative and puppet theatre.

Mode of study:

full-time

Qualification director or equivalent:

Tomáš ŽIŽKA

Field of study is part of study programme:

• Theatre in Non-Traditional Spaces – (B8212)

Qualification study plans

No study planned is available.