Course detail
Interactive storytelling 2
FaVU-1INST2Acad. year: 2023/2024
The subject partly refers to the method of a „dialogical acting“, primarily used as an actor’s method in the form of a psychosomatic and communication discipline (Ivan Vyskočil is the author of this method). Part of the course will be also introductory theoretic familiarization with some movement forms, or forms of a physical theatre, contemporary dance - in connection with the critical theory.
The concept of the course lies actually in a series of the acts in the form of practical experimental group exercises/discussions, and individual consultations and workshops focused on improvisation, self-recognition, playing, dialogue and critical reflection of author‘s approach in the artistic output, in connection to the expression, idea and movement, perceived through a choreographic framework.
The term Interactive Storytelling is more often used in the gaming environment of so called „open world“, but also, for example, in the immersive theatre. It is a narration of a story in which the actor influences the plot, as well as the environment itself through his acting, and vice versa - the environment influences the actor himself. When forming a construction of such an interactive story, it is necessary to identify as much potential interactions as possible in the network of participants, i.e. to realise and to recognize the environment elements and their choreography.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Classes will be held in the classrooms of the Department of Art Theory and History, at the Faculty of Fine Arts of BUT (Brno University of Technology), according to the schedule, and also individually as agreed with the lecturer. Minimum attendance 85%. Missed lessons will be compensated in the form of alternative assignments, according to the agreement with the lecturer.
Aims
The completing of the course should help students to strengthen their ability of critical reflection of themselves and their surroundings, and also to extend an insight into their own practice in relation to the interdisciplinary cooperation.
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
DELILLO, Don. White Noise. Penguin Books, 2009, 9780143105985,
LATOUR, Bruno, Nikdy sme neboli moderní, Kalligram, 2003, ISBN: 8071495956
LEPECKI, André, Choreography as Aparatus of Capture. The Drama Review, Volume 51, Number 2 (T 194), Summer 2007, pp.119-123 (Article)
LEPECKI, André, Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on dance and Performance Theory. Wesleyan University Press, 2004, ISBN: 0819566128
LOW, Setha M. Embodied Space(s): Anthropological Theories of Body, Space, and Culture. 2003, Space and Culture 6(1):9-18 DOI: 10.1177/1206331202238959
RUSINOVÁ, Zora. KRALOVIČ, Ján. Serialita a repetícia ako tvorivé princípy integrovaného umeleckého diela, Katedra teórie a dejín umenia VŠVU Bratislava, 2017, 978-80-8189-015-4
SPÅNGBERG, Mårten, Post-dance, an Advocacy. In Spanbergianism, MDT, 2017, ISBN: 978-91-983891-0-4
VYSKOČIL, Ivan, Dialogické jednání s vnitřním partnerem. Janáčkova akademie múzických umění (JAMU), 2005, ISBN: 80-86928-02-0
Type of course unit
Creative seminar
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