Training for movement 4

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Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Petra OSWALDOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

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

2. Searching for a natural movement rid of bad habits.

3. Feeling for a movement in a stage space.

4. Body expression skills- experimentation with a movement as a form of a disclosure.

5. Training of skills in an improvisation and its repeating- how to preserve and to transfer the quality from the improvisation to the concrete image, form, etud.

6. Themes: animal-human being, dancing buffoonery.

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.

Course contents:

Deeper experimentation with movement and space through the relaxed body ready to communicate on the stage. It is necessary for the next step: finding the way how to catch what is just happening and be able to repeat it in the same quality.

1. Posture - spatial body placement.

2. Feeling of horizontal and vertical.

3. Spatial relationships. Middle of a space. Entering a space, leaving a space.

4. Tempo, tempo-rhythm.

5. Rhythmizing free tempo.

6. Transmission of attributes of animals´ behaviour to the behaviour of a human being, there and back.

7. Sensing the difference between a rythm and a meter through dancing and its transfer into a specific theatrical form with clear rules.

Recommended or required reading:

ČECHOV, Michail: O herecké technice. Praha: Divadelní ústav 1996.

KRÖSCHLOVÁ, Jarmila.: Nauka o pohybu. Praha: Orbis 1980.

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

KRÖSCHLOVÁ, Eva: Ladění- psychosomatická příprava k výuce herectví. Praha: AMU 2003.

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

LECOQ, Jacques: The Moving Body- Teaching Creative Theatre. ISBN-13: 9780878301416.

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 short buffoonery- solo, paired or in a group.

4. Written review.

Course web page:

Note:

Schedule for winter semester 2016/2017:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2016/2017:

	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
Wed	místnost R302 Taneční sál (Karlova 26, Praha 1) 11:00–12:30 (paralelka 1)
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Wed	11:00–12:30		Taneční sál Karlova 26, Praha 1		paralelka 1

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

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