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Improvisation and personality: exploring the effects of practicing improvisational theater on the development of select personality characteristics
Vondráčková, Veronika ; Šípek, Jiří (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This paper's first portion overviews the extant academic literature in an attempt to provide insight into the development of personality through the practice of improvisational theater. First, the author defines improvisation in relation to the broader concept of theater, identifies commonalities between it and play, and demonstrates its educational and therapeutic uses. She goes on to address the demands improvisation places on the actor's personality, with a focus on collaboration, creativity and spontaneity. Concluding the overview, the author explains the purpose of improvisation classes and, using the example of working with creativity, spontaneity and their inhibitors, describes how such classes facilitate the development of improvisation skills. In the paper's second portion, the author proposes a study designed to empirically assess the theory laid out previously. She suggests the use of an experiment to track the changes in selected personality traits over the course of a year of improvisation training.
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Experience in The Artwork and in The Gallery Space
Havránková, Simona ; Pfeiffer, Jan (advisor) ; Francová, Sylva (referee)
The theoretical part of the thesis is comprised of three interrelated areas: the exhibition as a medium, space, and curation. The chosen areas each include a presentation of the development of space. The thesis explores elements that transform the audience's overall experience of visiting an exhibition and the audience's impression of the displayed piece. The chapter which follows the facilitator's role in the exhibit determines the most common causes of the public's dismissive stance towards art. The third chapter is focused on curation and introduces the curator's role. The practical part of the thesis proposes solutions for a three-dimensional installation and offers means of linking artworks to their surroundings. In relation to the subject of the public's detachment from art, the thesis explores art from the viewpoint of the audience and the audience's experience. The thesis aims at designing an arrangement that aids in bettering the relationship between the public, the gallery, and art, through the use of gallery education. The practical part involves the author's project - a curatorial conception for which thematic series are provided in the didactic part. The basis of the work is finding relationships between different areas of art and viewing exhibitions from an educational perspective....
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Improvisation and personality: exploring the effects of practicing improvisational theater on the development of select personality characteristics
Vondráčková, Veronika ; Šípek, Jiří (advisor) ; Štětovská, Iva (referee)
This paper's first portion overviews the extant academic literature in an attempt to provide insight into the development of personality through the practice of improvisational theater. First, the author defines improvisation in relation to the broader concept of theater, identifies commonalities between it and play, and demonstrates its educational and therapeutic uses. She goes on to address the demands improvisation places on the actor's personality, with a focus on collaboration, creativity and spontaneity. Concluding the overview, the author explains the purpose of improvisation classes and, using the example of working with creativity, spontaneity and their inhibitors, describes how such classes facilitate the development of improvisation skills. In the paper's second portion, the author proposes a study designed to empirically assess the theory laid out previously. She suggests the use of an experiment to track the changes in selected personality traits over the course of a year of improvisation training.
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Jazz in French Literature
Jonczyová, Michaela ; Voldřichová - Beránková, Eva (advisor) ; Jamek, Václav (referee)
Jazz in the French literature is not a typical subject of academic papers perhaps due to the fact that the matter of jazz is generally assigned to the American culture. The aim of this work is to prove that even though jazz is established both from the aesthetic and mental aspect on the principles substantially different from the European cultural tradition, it is a topic which has been richly elaborated on in the French literature. In the first part of this work we provide a complex insight into those principles as well as on the possibility of the transfer of jazz into literature. In the second part we describe the coming together of jazz and the French culture and its presence in selected literary works of Pascal Quignard, Boris Vian, Philippe Soupault and Jean Cocteau. The final analysis of the life and work of Christian Gailly serves as evidence that the jazz makes the French literature approachable for the world, resulting in a text which is at the same time lively and unconventional both from the formal and substantive point of view.
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The New America in Beat Literature:Spontaneous, Far Out, and All That Jazz
Novická, Tereza ; Armand, Louis (advisor) ; Vichnar, David (referee)
1 Thesis Abstract This thesis establishes the Beat Generation as part of the American literary canon despite its rejection of the literary establishment and academic criticism of its day. The portrayal of the American postwar zeitgeist in Beat literature is examined through the innovative literary techniques proposed by Jack Kerouac based on jazz characteristics. The revitalization of poetic and narrative form are identified in Allen Ginsberg's earliest published poetry, notably "Howl; for Carl Solomon" (Howl and Other Poems, 1956), Kerouac's novels On the Road and Visions of Cody and his long poem Mexico City Blues, respectively. The emergence and peak of the initially marginal Beat literary movement that gave rise to the affiliated beatnik subculture illustrates the tradition of avant-garde art becoming incorporated into establishment culture. The first chapter outlines the political and cultural hegemony of the conservative fifties in America with focus on cultural and historical aspects relevant and parallel to the surfacing and development of the Beat/beatnik counterculture, i.e. Cold War policies, McCarthyism, poetic movements, the emergence of bebop and its innovations. The second chapter provides an in- depth analysis of Beat writing in reference to jazz as subject-matter and as influence on both...
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Children's Spontaneous Play and its Stages of Development
KOŠKOVÁ, Petra
Bachelor thesis draws attention to the transformation of children's spontaneous games of the changing society and the demand for the children. The theoretical part is focused on basic features, specifications and types of games. It deals with the concept of free game and toy, as an instrument of free games. Defines the term "childhood" in the context of the risks that are currently on this period of life associated. Practical research includes qualitative changes in spontaneous games existing children, their parents and grandparents.
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