Training for movement 3

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Subject guarantor:

Name of lecturer(s):

Petra OSWALDOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit:

1. Being aware of my body and its sentience. Feeling the inner space of the body and its motion- concrete tasks, rehearsals.

2. Connection between the inner space and the space outside of the body- being aware of the body and movements „here and just now“ on the stage- concrete tasks, rehearsals.

3. Sensing differences: release, hypotonicity, activation and overstrain. Experimenting with a rythm and motional compositions- improvisation, short etudes.

4. Concrete themes of an improvisation. Students create short etudes from following themes: my space, elements, colours.

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. Coordinated movement.

2. Feeling of rhythm.

3. Motional imagination.

4. Musicality.

Course contents:

Training for movement is necessary for to be aware of my body and motion and its following transfer to the process of the individual creativity and being present on a stage.

1. Calm- perception of time and space.

2. Breathing

3. Release, hypotonicity, activation and overstrain.

4. Movement dynamics.

5. Plasticity of movement.

6. Rythm.

Recommended or required reading:

CALAIS-GERMAIN, B.: Anatomy of Breathing. USA: Eastland press 2006.

DYLEVSKÝ, Ivan: Základy anatomie. Praha: Triton 2006.

FELDENKRAIS, Moshé: Feldenkraisova metoda- pohybem k sebeuvědomění. Praha: Pragma 1996.

FELDENKRAIS, Moshé: Awareness Trough Movement, Health Exercises for Personal Growth. New York: HarperCollins 1993.

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

KRÖSCHLOVÁ, Eva: Jevištní pohyb. Praha: Akademie múzických umění 2002.

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

Assessment methods and criteria:

Credit is awarded based on:

1. Class attendance.

2. Interest and personal creativity.

3. One or more authorial etuds or improvisation- solo or in a group.

4. Written review.

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Schedule for winter semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2017/2018:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

The subject is a part of the following study plans:

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