Scenology 1
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language Instruction | Semester |
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| 201SCE1 | Z | 2 | 3T | Czech | winter |
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
An introduction to the basics of scene manifestations in the perspective of its particular and non-particular implementation and their relationship.
Mode of study
A combination of a presentation of the concepts and proper analyses of particular (particularly non-specific) events selected by the students themselves.
Prerequisites and co-requisites
A submitted term paper supported by an appropriate orientation in basic terms and problems, verifiable in discussion on various theoretical aspects and real cases.
Course contents
Familiarization with the foundations of theoretical scenology is based on a term paper concentrating on individual problems relating both to actual stage experiences and current creative activity (directing, dramaturgy and stage design students) and the study of stageability and stagedness outside of the theatre and their relationship to theatrical stageability and stagedness and vice versa (for theory and criticism students). The term paper drawn from reflections (one's own or others') on a staged production (including outside of the theatre) is thus combined with term papers based on researching basic terms and problems. Within the framework of this research including of individual „case studies“ there is confrontation with spontaneous stageability and stagedness of various kinds of societal (political, sports, commercial etc.) activities, specific stagedness (i.e the stagedness of relevant artistic activities including the visual arts) with non-specific stagedness of ceremonies and non-artistic media productions, „acting in life,“ with acting on the stage, acting in a performance production, production with installations, „gesamtkunstwerk“ as the actuating of stagedness of elements of various arts with their theatrical transformation with the spectacle and stagedness of various artistic statements, the potential stagedness of a text with realized stageability of a theatrical production, live staged performances with recorded ones, the stage versus the media, performability, dramaticism etc.
Recommended or required reading
Gajdoš, Július - From Drama Technique to Scenology
Aronson, Arnold - Looking into the abyss: essays on scenography
Baygan, Lee - Techniques of Three-Dimensional Makeup
Buchman, Herman - Stage Makeup
Brandesky, Joe (ed.) - Czech theatre design in the twentieth century: metaphor and irony revisited
Corey, Irene - The mask of reality: an approach to design for theatre
Docherty, Peter; White, Tim (ed.) - Design for performance: from Diaghilev to the Pet Shop Boys
Hopkins, Albert A. - Magic: stage illusions, special effects and trick protography
Lajcha, Ladislav - Hommage to scenography 1920-2000
Oddey, Alison; White, Christine - The Potentials of Spaces: the theory and practice of scenography & performance
Parker, W. Oren; Smith, Harvey K.; Wolf, R. Craig - Scene design and stage lightning
Simonson, Lee - The stage is set
Warre, Michael - Designing and making stage scenery
Assessment methods and criteria
Credits are awarded based on the submission of work with a view to the active participation in course discussion.
Note
Elective - for advanced study years.
Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:
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| Date | Day | Time | Tutor | Location | Notes | No. of paralel |
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| Tue | 15:00–16:30 | Jaroslav VOSTRÝ | Pracovna pedagogů Karlova 26, Praha 1 |
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Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:
The schedule has not yet been prepared
The subject is a part of the following study plans
- Dramaturgy for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)
- Directing for Dramatic Theatre (M.A.) (optional subject)