Memoirs, Essays and Ceremonies
Autor
Datum obhajoby
2020-09-17
Fakulta
Akademie múzických umění v Praze.Divadelní fakulta
Katedra
Kat. alternativního a lout. divadla
Typ práce
Diplomová práce
Vedoucí
Oponent
Podnázev
toward a new approach to directing performance through a practiceof being with things
Abstrakt
This thesis is a personal reflection on the work that I made over the period of my
studies at DAMU September 2017 – January 2019. It focuses on four works created
by its author over four semesters. The Potato Piece, Eulogy, Before The Ceremony
and The Ceremony. These works have been created in response to the question of
how it might be possible to use the artist’s personal experience to create
performance that engages in an experiential and intimate way with its audience.
It tracks the author’s theatre-making practice over these four works as it develops
from staging simple compositions with objects to exploring new forms of
participatory performance that seek to find new intimacy and cross borders in the
audience-performer relationship.
Through a detailed description and reflection of The Potato Piece, Eulogy, Before
The Ceremony and The Ceremony this thesis invites the reader to enter into the
world of that process and to reflect on how each of these projects act as a stepping
stone toward a more expanded practice of ‘directing’. The final chapters of the
thesis look at how this work with objects (relating to things) can translate into a
way of approaching working with personal material (relating to the self) and
creating experience as performance by crossing the border of the
audience/performer relationship (relating to others).
Popis
Klíčová slova
práce na inscenaci, práce s hercem, performance (umění), divadelní inscenace, divadelní režie