Master Atelier 2

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Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
204MDMA2	Z	8	4SO	English	summer

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Learning outcomes of the course unit

Course graduates:

will be oriented in the basic discourse of the contemporary performance especially it’s practice and research side;
will be able to develop their own thinking about individual topics and issues as well as gain ability to think and create in dialogue with others.

Mode of study

Seminar.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None.

Course contents

In this course students learn to gather information about chosen topics, analyze them and discuss them in a group. The content of the seminar varies depending on students focus of research and varies from dramaturgical potential of specific performative formats to development of dialogue methods in research, collaboration and performing. The pre-condition for the exploration is that the contemporary performance is collaborative process that extends to audience; that it’s a process of researching and thinking and that the performance is a set of conditions that inspire and activate the research and thinking.

Recommended or required reading

Carlson, Marvin A. Performance: A Critical Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2004. Print.

Carlson, Marvin A. Places of Performance: The Semiotics of Theatre Architecture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1989. Print.

Carroll, Jerome, Steve Giles, and Karen Jürs-Munby. Postdramatic Theatre and the Political: International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

Critchley, Simon. Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance. London: Verso, 2007. Print.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota, 1987. Print.

Eco, Umberto. The Open Work. Cambridge: Harvard UP, n.d. Print.

Fuchs, Elinor, and Una Chaudhuri. Land/scape/theater. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan, 2002. Print.

Jameson, Fredric. Brecht and Method. London: Verso, 2000. Print.

Oddey, Alison. Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook. London: Routledge, 1994. Print.

Pavis, Patrice. Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and Analysis. Toronto: U of Toronto, 1998. Print.

Pearson, Mike. Site-specific Performance. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Print.

Read, Alan. Theatre and Everyday Life. London: Routledge, 1995. Print.

Read, Alan. Theatre, Intimacy & Engagement: The Last Human Venue. Basingstoke [England] ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Print.

Schechner, Richard. Performance Theory. New York: Routledge, 1988. Print.

Scheppele, Kim Lane. Hungary's Constitutional Revolution, in New York Times, December 19th, 2011.

Soja, Edward W. Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-imagined Places. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1996. Print.

Weber, Samuel. Theatricality as Medium. New York: Fordham UP, 2004. Print.

Assessment methods and criteria

Active participation in exercises, completion of homework, active participation in the course minimum participation per semester 75%.