Work on Performance

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Code Completion Credits Range Language Instruction Semester
204PUWP ZK 12 28P+84CS+56S English

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Learning outcomes of the course unit

Mode of study

Lecture, Seminary, Exercise

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None

Course contents

The objective of the staging course is the creation of a space for practical work and testing student approaches with an emphasis on the individual creativity of the student. Each student develops their own concept of the final performance from varous perspectives (dramaturgy, directing, cast, stage design, lighting design, music, etc.). If the project requires other collaborators, the student is to build the team from other Dept. of Alternative and Puppet Theatre students. Work on the performance is regularly debated with key instructors on a weekly basis. The entire study process is focused on investigating individual, specific theatre language which the student is to create through review of the creation process. Another important layer of the creation of the resulting performance is the development of practical skills such as organizing the creative process: leading a creative team, organizing rehearsals, implementing parts of artists' performance such as scenes, music, acting, etc. into the production whole.

Instruction take place through preparations of individual and group stagings based on work with materials, visual dramaturgy and working with a text based on the data.

Work is divided into 2-4 day workshops with various artists and whole-semester continuous work under the guidance of a tutor. Independent work on the stage concept and implementation.

Effective collaboration, organization and distribution of tasks among team members.

Recommended or required reading

K. S. Stanislavskij: My Life in Art

Peter Brook: Empty Space

Bertolt Brecht: Thoughts on Theatre

Denis Diderot: The Dramatic Paradox

E. G. Craig: The Actor and Uber-Marionnette

Jiří Veltruský: An approach to the semiotics of theatre : with an afterword by Tomáš Hoskovec, and with a complete

scholarly bibliography of the author

Anatolij Efros: Theatre: my love

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Further information

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