Seminar of Theatre Anthropology 4

Display Schedule

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
202DAS4	ZK	3	3T	Czech	summer

Subject guarantor

Jana PILÁTOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Jana PILÁTOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

To introduce students to theatricality and theatre not only in aesthetic dimensions.
To develop the ability to perceive and interpret social-cultural contexts of theatre and theatricality.
To develop a theatre-anthopology idea and a bearing in the practice and theory contributions of these approaches in examples of world and domestic artists.
To introduce a list of tasks related to this approach.
To inspire student in their own original projects.

Mode of study

Classes, Group work. Repeated video screenings (3-4 repetitions of approx. 5 minute examples) and subsequent formulated observations and analyses of the examples offered which have not been previously „announced“ (examples of group pieces, exercises or parts of performances or in the field events of well-known ensembles, an introduction to Teatru Laboratorium, Odin Teatret, Gardzienic, etc.). This expands student knowledge in dialogue with other parts of their skills in the perception and interpretation of acting and direction of various quality, collaboration with the audience, etc. At the close each lesson is an example arranged into the context of the work of that ensemble or actor. Gradually students skills grow in the recognition of the specifics of certain theatre expression and their bearing in its sense and awareness of the scale of potential of theatre-antrhopology approaches (comparative examples).

Prerequisites and co-requisites

No entrance requirements other than an interest in this manner of study.

Course contents

This seminar of video viewings and their interactive analysis acquaints students with:

a theatre-anthropology approach to theatre and its cultural-historical contexts,
the founders of this concept (J. Grotowski, E. Barba, W. Staniewski, etc.),
various types of this approach (artists, thespian and anthropologist field and theory work, the International School of Theatre Anthropology and its contributors),
its importance for the manner of theatre and the reception of theatre,
overlaps to forerunners (theatre reformers of the 20th century, Artaud, Copeau, etc.),
todays artists of the „third“, „anthropological“, „social“ theatres in the world and domestically.

Assessment methods and criteria

Credit is awarded based on:

Class participation.

Attendance (75%).

Course paper, discussed at a colloquium.

The student is to attempt to answer a question formed by that student. The answer is to be supported by a better view of some covered topics (figures, examples), one's study of trade literature and a complementary example from theatre (At best a live work which other students may know, also possibly a video.).

Note

For those who have completed the previous Theatre anthropology course.

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

	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	room R210 Učebna R210 (DAMU) (Karlova 26, Praha 1) PILÁTOVÁ J. 16:30–19:00 (parallel1)
Wed
Thu
Fri

Date	Day	Time	Tutor	Location	Notes	No. of paralel
	Tue	16:30–19:00	Jana PILÁTOVÁ	Učebna R210 (DAMU) Karlova 26, Praha 1		parallel1

The subject is a part of the following study plans

Authorial Acting (B.A.) (optional subject)