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Instability of Character in Sam Shepard's Work of the 1970s
Lauer, Martin ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to undertake a thorough analysis of Sam Shepard's approach to the character in a selection of his plays from the 1970s. Instead of approaching characters as compact entities with fixed character features the thesis focuses on their instability and changeability and attempts to ascribe characters' transformations to dynamic non-subjective forces and to identify ego-loss as a partially liberating process that nonetheless confronts the characters with the unknown and is accompanied by fear of self-loss. From the theoretical vantage point of the collaborative writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the thesis equates the transformations of Shepard's characters and their inability to locate the "self" with the schizophrenic experience. As a musical genre based on variability, jazz, as well as its inherent form of expression, improvisation, are utilized as points of departure in the analysis of characters' instability in plays Suicide in Bb and Angel City. Furthermore, in Angel City, the phenomenon of film in the USA and the desire for success and fame intensified by it are perceived as instruments of manipulation and illusion, which characters easily succumb to and which severely alter their sense of reality. Moreover, the environment of filmmaking is introduced as a...
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Poetry slam and slam poetry in Germany and Czech Republic. History, forms and comparison
Lupínková, Martina ; Zbytovský, Štěpán (advisor) ; Blahak, Boris (referee)
This thesis deals with a contemporary phenomenon bordering on literature and performance, i.e. with the poetry slam. It summarizes the different attitudes to the terminology and the definitions of the key terms (particularly within the Czech-German discourse), includes the history of the poetry slam formation, its expansion to the other countries and its establishment in the Czech Republic and Germany. The work focuses on a comparison of important aspects of the "poetry slam" as an event format and the "slam poetry" as a literary genre on the Czech and German scene, which was based on available literature, slam visits, recordings from the events and interviews with the participants. The results of the comparative analysis provide the public better with the specifics of the both scenes, which is of importance especially to the Czech scene that has stayed without a public interest up to the present day.
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Improvisation and Creativity in Dance and Movement Education in Primary School
Bukvičková, Jitka ; Hník, Ondřej (advisor) ; Krčmářová, Tereza (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to remind the importance of the two selected categories of the educational content of the subject of dance and movement education in primary school: improvisation and creativity, their conception and implementation in education. The thesis is divided into theoretical and practical part. The theoretical part firstly deals with dance based on movement - the most natural activity of everyone. Then, the subject of dance and movement education is introduced together with its characteristics. The following chapters describe the importance of improvisation and creativity in dance and movement education. The practical part consists of a qualitative research of which the main aim was to find out how improvisation and creativity are being fulfilled in practice. The research was realized using the method of participating observation. That part also presents its results.
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Impro theatre - theatre sports in Czech Republic
Urban, Jan ; Christov, Petr (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
This thesis focuses on the Theatresports as a general category of improvisational theatre. Theoretically analyses their structure in terms of theatre studies and interprets the principles of this specific approach to theatre production, deals with their history and development, also is trying to establish a suitable theoretical and conceptual apparatus for them. It also reflects the decade of work of Theatresports in the Czech Republic, summarizes their characteristics and places them in context with other selected speeches theatrical improvisation on the Czech scene. Keywords: Theatresports, Keith Johnstone, improvisational theatre, improvisation, contemporary Czech theatre, Czech improvisational League
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Drama and its use in kindergartens
SVATOŠOVÁ, Lucie
This work is dealing with the drama education and its application in preschools. In the present work I am focusing on methods of the drama education, on the method of the improvisation. Further, I am trying to test weather the age of children has any influence on the improvisation and weather all selected methods of the drama education are suitable for all age groups of children in the preschool education. Not least, I am dealing which way is posible in preschools to provide a space for the improvisation. I use the method of participant observation and semistructured interview.
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Music Improvisation
Angelov, Michael ; Hradiš, Michal (referee) ; Fapšo, Michal (advisor)
The thesis deals with problems concerning algorithmic music compositon, especially the domain of musical improvisation. There is an opening presentation of some of existing tools and approaches that are commonly used in domain of computer music. Consenquently there is a proposal of a new system, using main principles of markov chains and prediction suffix trees (PST) with description of its implementation. The main task of developped application is to analyze an external MIDI recording that is proposed to the system by user and create a new and inovative musical material in MIDI format that would sound close to the original recording giving an impression of a computer improvised music to the listener.
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Qualitative research on the development of social skills of children preschool age through dramatic work with text
DOLEJŠÍ, Jana
The aim of my thesis is to concentrate on the development of social skills of children of pre-school age using the method of dramatic work with text. The beginning of the theoretic part is based on developmental conceptions of personality of well-known authors. I also pay attention to emotions. Not only because they are separate subject of my research but they also strongly influence surveyed social skills. The theoretical part is completed with description of socialization process and drama teaching. In the methodological part I try to clarify the method of grounded theory which is based on participant observation, semi-constructed interviews and individual levels of coding. The practical part is based on literary text which mainly serves as inspiration for dramatic creativity. At the same time it deliberately opens space for reflection on social relationships, conflicts and emotions in it. The way children interpret described social phenomena and their confrontation with their own experience, both of these are my source of information about personalities of surveyed children and especially the degree of development of their social skills. All this helps to regulate my other educational interventions. Dramatic creativity, which is elaborated in several parts, is described in detail. In the introduction it always characterizes its intent and in the end it evaluates surveyed social skills of individuals or groups. At the end of my thesis there is a total summary based on the conclusions of individual dramatic creativity and continuously conducted interviews.
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Pantomime with Deaf People in the Framework of Dramatic Education
ROLNÍKOVÁ, Šárka
The work is focused on the possibility of pantomime with hearing disabled people in the context of drama education. The first part deals with the pedagogy of a leisure time and the transition to dramatic education. The second part deals with the dramatic education and the common elements with pantomime. The third part is devoted to the history and definition of mime. The fourth explains surdopedie - hearing disability. In the fifth section is described the non-verbal communication. In the sixth, the last part, gives an overview of the history and work of associations of deaf people. Pantomime has it´s history mainly among adults. Increasingly used in the context of drama education for children, which is beneficial to their development of communication and the ability to communicate.
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