New Ways of Communicating Reflection and Criticality

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Learning outcomes of the course unit

Knowledge achieved:

• The student should show knowledge about, and be able to discuss different aspects of criticality in relation to a specific performance or a specific concept.
• The student should know in what way an expanded understanding of dramaturgy and criticality is influencing contemporary European theatre and performance practices.

Skills achieved:

• To actively produce presentations that are materializing and verbalizing ideas and concepts, in this making them clear, understandable, enjoyable and criticizable.
• To present and discuss dramaturgical and critical concepts and processes in public.

Mode of study

Seminar.

Prerequisites and co-requisites

None.

Course contents

The goal of the course is to enhance the student’s understanding of theatre/art performances, both in its relation to the audience and to the theatre practitioner, through widening the meaning of terms like analysis and criticism, and strengthening the student’s ability to communicate the process in different ways.

Themes of individual meetings:

1. Tendencies in contemporary European theatre, mainly through examples from filmed performances.
2. Investigating different tools for presenting and discussing performances.
3. The body and the site as vehicles for presenting and scrutinizing theoretical and artistic material.
4. Students‘ presentation of performances or theories, based on their own choice.

Recommended or required reading

Povinná literatura:

GOEBBELS, Heiner. LEW THOMAS, Emma. Research or Craft? Nine Theses on Educating Future Performing Artists. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 35, 2013, č. 1, s. 43-48.

SCHÖN, Donald A. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action. Aldershot: Avebury, 1991. ISBN 978-0465068784.

LEHMANN, Hans-Thies. PRIMAVESI, Patrick. Dramaturgy on Shifting Grounds. Performance Research. A Journal of the Performing Arts 14, 2009, č. 3, s. 3–6.

ROGOFF, Irit. ‘Smuggling’ – An Embodied Crticality. [08_2006] Dostupné z: https://www.scribd.com/document/144022528/Rogoff-Smuggling

Assessment methods and criteria

The course is examined through continuous assessment of oral and written assignments, and through active participation in the workshops. In order to pass, the student must participate in at least 80% of the lectures or workshops.

• Attendance: at least 80% (20% of classification).
• Active participation on the lectures and workshops (30% of classification).
• Assignments: 1 written assignment, 8–10 pages (50% of classification).

Further information

No schedule has been prepared for this course

The subject is a part of the following study plans

• Theory and Criticism of Theatre XXX (required subject)
• Theory and criticism (B.A.) (required subject)