Texts and Contexts

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Subject guarantor

Name of lecturer(s)

Jana PILÁTOVÁ

Contents

I. 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).

II. 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.

III. 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.

IV. Main figure from Grotowski's nest and inheritance issues:

• Actors, dramaturgist, directors, teachers, intepreters - theatrology, filmmakers, collection makers.

Learning outcomes

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

Prerequisites and other requirements

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.

Literature

Literatura –anglicky, česky, i v překladech do mateřštiny jednotlivých studentů

Antonin Artaud: The Theater and its Double. Grove Press Books 1958. Dále A.Artaud Texty I., Herrmann & synové 1995

Jerzy Grotowski: Towards a Poor Theatre. Odin Teatrets Forlag1968 Dále české překlady in Texty – Teatr Laboratorium I, II, III, Svět a divadlo 9/1991, 6/1996, 3/1999

Peter Brook: With Grotowski. Theatre is Just a Form. Inst. Grotowskiego Wroclaw 2009

Ludwik Flaszen: Grotowski & Company. Odin Teatret + The Grotowski Institute, 2010 Virginie Magnat: Grotowski, Women, and Contemporary Performance. Meetings with Remarkable Women. Routledge New York, London 2014

Jana Pilátová: Hnízdo Grotowského. Na prahu divadelní antropologie. Institut umění – divadelní ústav 2009

Leszek Kolankiewicz – Jana Pilátová. Antropologické příběhy I, II, III. Taneční zóna 2019 č. 1 (s. 66- 81) č. 2 (s. 62 -77), č. 3 (s. 84-99)

Evaluation 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 AMU students

Schedule for winter semester 2022/2023:

The schedule has not yet been prepared

Schedule for summer semester 2022/2023:

The subject is a part of the following study plans