DERZX18 Acting as a gesture of testimony I

Theatre Faculty
Winter 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/30/30. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: graded credit.
Teacher(s)
MgA. Tomáš Hubáček (seminar tutor)
doc. Mgr. Pierre Nadaud, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Petra Riou (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Petra Riou
Theater without Borders Department – Dean’s Office – Theatre Faculty – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Supplier department: Theater without Borders Department – Dean’s Office – Theatre Faculty – Janáček Academy of Performing Arts
Prerequisites (in Czech)
FORMA(Z)
The course Acting as a gesture of testimony offers the student artistic practices focusing on author-actor training and fact-based theatre.
It is designed for students who have an interest in movement and body-based theatre (dance and physical theatre) and intermediality and wish to questioning the relation between theatre and reality.
The course includes artistic project, practical courses, body and theatre training, experimenting with digital media on the stage and open dramaturgical formats enable a variety of advisory and mentoring processes.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives (in Czech)
The aim of this subject is:
- to develop a process of cooperative creation by means of training to increase the collaborativity of the members of the creative team.
- to integrate public debate into the creative process, using a range of methods that have already been tried and tested or invented: written questionnaires, filmed or recorded interviews, etc.
- to integrate these surveys into the final form of the show in the form of texts, films, projections, recorded sounds, projected photos, etc.
- to develop interdisciplinarity in the media used and the modes of scenic expression employed.
Learning outcomes (in Czech)
A one-hour public show in which all the members of the creative team participate as performers and authors.
Literature
    recommended literature
  • Cantrell, Tom. 2013. Acting in documentary theatre. Palgrave, Macmillan.
  • Forsyth, Alison and Megson Chris. 2011. Get real, documentary theatre past and present. Performance interventions. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Martin, Carol. 2010. Dramaturgy of the Real on the World Stage. Studies in International Performance. Palgrave Macmillan.
Teaching methods (in Czech)
Euristic method. Discussions. Exercises.
Assessment methods (in Czech)
Will be evaluated and discussed:
- the evolution of the participation of each member of the creative team during the trial.
- the concret participation in the scenic project: more or less distant from the common subject?, how?, why?
- the written feedback of the participants.
- the integration of the scenic means into the final project: their relevance to the subject and the dramaturgy of the work as a whole.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Information on course enrolment limitations: předmět je otevřen pouze studentům výměnných programů
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2019, Winter 2020.
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