Course: Tendencies of Contemporary Drama E

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Course title Tendencies of Contemporary Drama E
Course code KDU/TSDDE
Organizational form of instruction Seminar
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
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.
  • Bernátek Martin, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Kubina Lukáš, Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
In winter term 2024, the course includes lectures by Adam Czirak and Theresa Eisele from the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna. The course by Adam Czirak will focus on experimental performing arts in Central and Eastern Europe and their relationship to post-socialist society. The course will focus on current topics of theatre historiography, namely feminism and women history, in relation to Jewish theatre culture. The course will take place on Thursday and Friday 5-6 December, as indicated in the course schedule. You can read the interview with Adam Czirak in the journal Theatralia, Vol. 21, No. 1 (2018) here: http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/137917

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook), Projection (static, dynamic)
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to introduce students to current developments in performance, dance and theatre studies in a foreign professional context through a series of lectures, seminars or workshops by visiting experts. The name of the speaker or lecturer will be announced at the beginning of the term and the content of the lecture will be based on their professional interests and current research. The lecture series may also include the screening of a thematically selected audiovisual recording.
Students will: learn about the current state of performance research worldwide, learn about foreign cultures and strengthen intercultural awareness, practice using the English language in academic context.
Prerequisites
The course is usually taught in English.

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

- attendance (100%) - homework (reading assigned academic text or literature in English; watching assigned recordings; listening to assigned audio formats; writing short texts) active participation in class discussions. credit is awarded for completing assignments.
Recommended literature
  • BARTHES, Roland. (1997). Kritika a pravda.. Praha: Dauphin.
  • Boris Buden. (2013). Konec postkomunismu. Praha: Rybka.
  • ČERNÝ, Václav. (1968). Co je kritika, co není a k čemu je na světě. Vyd. 1.. V Brně: Blok.
  • DAVID, Ann R., HUXLEY, Michael, and WHATLEY, Sarah, (eds.). (2020). Dance fields: staking a claim for dance studies in the twenty-first century. Binsted, Hampshire: Dance Books, 2020.
  • Elke van Campenhout & Lilia Mestre (eds.). (2016). Turn, Turtle! Reenacting the Institute. Berlin: Alexander Verlag.
  • FISHER, Mark. (2021). Ako písať o divadle : Príručka pre kritikov, študentov a blogerov.. Bratislava: Kultúrny spolok MLOKi.
  • MACHONIN, Sergej. (2005). Šance divadla.. Praha: Divadelní ústav.
  • Maria Hlavajová and Simon Sheikh (eds.). (2016). Former West: art and the contemporary after 1989. Cambridge: MIT Press.
  • Marta Keil (ed.). (2015). Identity. Move! dance, process, artistic research. Contemporary dance in the political, economic and social context of "former east" of Europe..
  • PAVIS, Patrice. (2003). Analyzing performance: theater, dance, and film. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
  • Polish theatre Journal 1-2/2017. Theatre and Democracy: Institutional Practices in Polish Theatre.
  • SCHECHNER, Richard a BRADY, Sara, ed. (2013). Performance studies: an introduction. 3rd ed.. London: Routledge.
  • ZARRILLI, Phillip B. (ed.). (2009). Theatre Histories: An Introduction. New York: Routledge.


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): Film, Theatre, TV and Radio Studies (2017) Category: Theory and history of arts - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: -
Faculty: Faculty of Arts Study plan (Version): Theatre Studies (2019) Category: Theory and history of arts 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: -