DIFA:DJTZ101 History of Stage Technology an - Course Information
DJTZ101 History of Stage Technology and Design I
Theatre FacultyWinter 2023
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.
- Teacher(s)
- MgA. Dominika Fišerová Kuntzmannová (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- prof. MgA. Blanka Chládková
Theatre Management and Stage Technology Department – Dean’s Office – Theatre Faculty – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Supplier department: Theatre Management and Stage Technology Department – Dean’s Office – Theatre Faculty – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts - Timetable
- each even Monday 8:30–10:00 MARTA_UCEBNY, each even Monday 10:15–11:45 MARTA_UCEBNY
- Prerequisites
- The student is properly enrolled in the first year.
This is the first encounter with the theatre technology taught in the first year, where generally begins a tutorial on theater issues. - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Theatre Management focusing on management and technology (programme DIFA, B-DRAUM)
- Stage Management and Technology (programme DIFA, Div_Pro:B)
- Stage Technology (programme DIFA, B-DRAUM)
- Opera directing (programme HF, Opdir:M5)
- Course objectives
- Objective: Introduce students to the history and development of theatre from early stage to the present
- Learning outcomes
- After graduating this course student will be able:
- to orientate in historical theatre technologies,
- to use historical theatre technologies even in current theatre art,
- to build on historical theatre technologies,
- to search for new technological solutions.
Student:
- will be able to reflect acquired knowledge in own artistic work,
- will know the historical practices that can be applied to own current artistic production,
- will be not inventing already invented but will focus on the latest technological applications of modern facilities for theatrical productions. - Syllabus
- Content of the course:
- - Types of stage technology
- - Overview of stage technology from Greek theater to the present
- - Greek and Roman Theatre
- - Medieval theater, humanist and Renaissance theater
- - Illusionary theater of the High Renaissance
- - Comedy dell'arte and Elizabethan theater
- - Baroque theater
- - A large theatrical reform, romanticism and historicism
- - Overview of inventions and discoveries that influenced the development of stage technology emergence and development of lighting technology stage (Furtenbach`s lighting system, gas, electricity)
- - The establishment and development of a sound stage technology
- - Creation and development stage of building technology
- - Mechanical stage technology - modernization of historical theater venues
- - Lower and upper mechanical stage technology
- - Mechanical stage technology - fog machines
- - Fire-fighting stage technology
- - Future of technology of scenic machinery.
- Literature
- recommended literature
- Doc. Mgr. Jan Kolegar: "Historie scénických technologií" (skriptum) JAMU. info
- Jiří Hilmera: Perspektivní scéna 17. a 18. století v Čechách. Praha, Scénografický ústav v Praze, 1965. info
- Josef Furtenbach: Prospektiva. PRAG, Praha, 1944. info
- Fr. Kranich: Bühnentechnik Der Gegenwart. R. Oldenbourg, München, 1932. info
- HILMERA, jiří. Česká divadelní architektura (Czech Theatre Architecture). Praha: Divadelní ústav, 1999. info
- HUNT, Nick, Bri NEWESELY and Franziska RITTER. 100 Stories: A CANON of technical theatre history. Edition 1.1 - December 2022. 2022. ISBN 978-94-6475-810-8. URL info
- Teaching methods
- Form: Regular lectures.
Methods: group work, work with text and pictures, discussion methods. Study materials are organized in the interactive curriculum section. - Assessment methods
- Graded credit based on completion of partial assignments.
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Follow-Up Courses
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2023, recent)
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