Jerzy Grotowski – Texts and Contexts

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
202JGT ZK 2 3T English, Czech summer

Subject guarantor

Jana PILÁTOVÁ

Name of lecturer(s)

Jana PILÁTOVÁ

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course aim is to introduce students to the main phases of Jerzy Grotowski's work.

Mode of study

Elective course, regular meetings (3 hrs per week). Active interpretation of the Grotowski's work in context (theatre, cultural, social, political, anthropological, religious). Study based on texts by Grotowski, conversations with him and texts and films about him.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

DAMU students, able to study the assigned texts (electively in Czech, English, Polish..) may register for the course. Capacity is 10 people. Priority is given to Czech and international Dept. of Alternative and Puppet Theater students.

Course contents

a) Stage theatre (1959-1969)

Stage theatre 13 order and the peak of Theatre Laboratorium works,

exerises and their changes, actors and their changes,

Towards a Poor Theatre (1968) - world response and changes in direction (1969-71)

b) Deserted Theatre (1970-1976); Institute Laboratorium

phases „active cultures“ para-theatre, projects, Brzezinka,

Universita Narodu Wroclaw, University searching for Venice - 1975,

traveling for Theatre sources 1976-1982.

c) Grotowski in the world (1982-1999)

American phase (1983, Irvine, California - objective drama).

Italian phase (1985 Pontedera - Il Centro di Lavoro di Jerzy Grotowski).

Performer teacher (1986-1996) - Dept. of Theatre Anthropology 1997 College de France.

d) Main figure from Grotowski's nest and inheritance issues

actors, dramaturgist, directors, teachers, intepreters - theatrology, filmmakers, collection makers.

Recommended or required reading

  1. J. Grotowski: Towards a poor Theatre. ed. E. Barba, Odin Teatrets Forlag 1968

nebo J. Grotowski: Ku teatrowi ubogiemu. Instytut Grotowskiego, Wroclaw 2007

nebo J. Grotowski - Teksty z lat 1965-1969, ed. J.Degler, Z. Osiński, Wroclaw 1989

nebo J. Grotowski a Teatr Laboratorium – texty (3 části), ed. J. Pilátová, Praha 1990

  1. J.Pilátová: Hnízdo Grotowského; na prahu divadelní antropologie. Praha 2009 (vybrané

kapitoly anglicky nebo polsky)

nebo Zbigniew Osiński: Jerzy Grotowski. Źródla, inspiracje, konteksty I, II. Slowo/obraz

terytoria. Gdańsk 1998

nebo anglicky výbor z Osińského Grotowski and his Laboratory, 1986

  1. Peter Brook With Grotowski. Theatre is Just a Form. Inst. GrotowskiegoWroclaw 2009

nebo Teksty zebrane. Grotowski. Inst. Grotowskiego, Inst.Teatralny, Warszawa 2012

nebo překlady Grotowského in Svět a divadlo a Divadelní revue,dle bibl. Hnízda Grotowského

  1. Ludwik Flaszen: Grotowski & Company. Odin Teatret + The Grotowski Institute, 2009

Virginie Magnat: Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance. Meetings with

Remarkable Women. Routledge New York, London 2014

Assessment methods and criteria

Credit base on class participation (75% attendance), in place of attendance is a written interpretative tex, studied during absences.

Further information

This course is an elective for all students of this school

Schedule for winter semester 2018/2019:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2018/2019:

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
Thu
room R312
Učebna
(Karlova 26, Praha 1)
PILÁTOVÁ J.
16:30–19:00
(parallel1)
Fri
Date Day Time Tutor Location Notes No. of paralel
Thu 16:30–19:00 Jana PILÁTOVÁ Učebna
Karlova 26, Praha 1 		parallel1

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