Course: Contemporary Performing Arts Analysis

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Course title Contemporary Performing Arts Analysis
Course code KDU/ASS
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Pavlišová Jitka, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
Contents: 1-2 Basic methods of performance analysis and their limitations. 3. Stereotypical approaches to performance analysis: aesthetic determinism, event-based reductionism, work-centredness. 4-7. The creation of meaning in a performance 8-12. Physicality and emotion in a performance; non-narrative works 13. Final session

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
  • Homework for Teaching - 50 hours per semester
  • Attendace - 25 hours per semester
  • Preparation for the Course Credit - 25 hours per semester
  • Semestral Work - 25 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
The course is intended for third-year Bachelor's students and aims to enhance their analytical skills, develop their proficiency in working with theatre studies terminology, and broaden their understanding of contemporary Czech and international theatre. Each semester, a different phenomenon and different productions are selected for analysis, based on the current theatre programme.
Students will learn to analyse complex performances that do not conform to the principles of semantic and structural analysis, or that are not based on a dramatic pretext. They will understand the relationship between the creation of meaning and physicality. They will be able to present their analytical approaches and conclusions independently and without resorting to clichés.
Prerequisites
As the course takes place at the end of the third year, students are expected to have completed all core lectures and seminars with an 'A' grade.

Assessment methods and criteria
Student performance, Analysis of linguistic, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary), Seminar Work

Assessment for a 15-minute presentation and the submission of the associated written paper of 10 standard pages.
Recommended literature
  • ARNTZEN, Knut Ove. (1991). A Visual Kind of Dramaturgy: Project Theatre in Scandinavia. In Claude Schumacher and Derek Fogg (eds.). Small is Beautiful. Small Countries Theatre Conference 1990, p 43?49.. Glasgow.
  • Aronson, Arnold. (2007). Pohled do propasti : eseje o scénografii. Praha.
  • Dvořáková, Dita (ed.). (2017). Tanec, postor a světlo. Brno.
  • MCKINNEY, Joslin. (2018). Seeing Scenography: Scopic regimes and the body of spectators. In ARONSON, Arnold (ed.). The Routledge companion to scenography, p. 102-118. Oxon.
  • PAVIS, Patrice. (2020). Analýza divadelního představení. Praha.
  • PAVIS, Patrice. (2015). Dramaturgia a postdramaturgia. In Nová dramaturgia, nový dramaturg II. : zborník prednášok z medzinárodnej konferencie 13.5.2014.. Bratislava.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Theatre and Performance studies (2024) Category: Theory and history of arts 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Theatre and Performance studies (2026) Category: Theory and history of arts 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Theatre and Performance studies (2024) Category: Theory and history of arts 3 Recommended year of study:3, Recommended semester: Summer