INTRODUCTION TO DIRECTING
| Title | ΣΚΗΝΟΘΕΤΙΚΕΣ ΠΡΟΣΕΓΓΙΣΕΙΣ / INTRODUCTION TO DIRECTING |
| Code | ΥΣ0200 |
| Faculty | Fine Arts |
| School | Drama |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Coordinator | Glykeria Koukourikou |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 120000716 |
Programme of Study: PPS Tmīmatos THeátrou (2019-sīmera)
Registered students: 74
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Compulsory Course | 5 | 3 | 5 |
| Academic Year | 2023 – 2024 |
| Class Period | Winter |
| Faculty Instructors | |
| Class ID | 600233159
|
Course Type 2016-2020
- Background
- General Knowledge
- Skills Development
Course Type 2011-2015
Specific Foundation / Core
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600233159
- At the Website of the School: http://www.thea.auth.gr/theagr.asp
- eLearning (Moodle): https://elearning.auth.gr/course/view.php?id=12290
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- Greek (Instruction, Examination)
- English (Instruction, Examination)
- French (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will have:
- Familiarize with different stage languages
- Get to know the features of stage narration
- Learn to solve stage problems
- Learn to manage stage space and time
- Learn to collaborate in a creative way
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Generate new research ideas
- Design and manage projects
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
Students are called to react creatively to a play that is prescribed by the teacher, and produce brief individual ‘sketches’, directing the actors and curating themselves the stage design, lighting and music. Individual presentations are thoroughly discussed in class.
Keywords
stage directing, theatre animation, TiE
Educational Material Types
- Interactive excersises
- Book
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading Assigment | 14 | 0.6 | ✓ | ||
| Artistic Workshop | 54 | 2.2 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Project | 22 | 0.9 | ✓ | ||
| Written assigments | 10 | 0.4 | |||
| Artistic creation | 25 | 1 | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Total | 125 | 5 |
Student Assessment
Description
Open discussion and criticism of all scenes and directing sketches.
At the end of the semester students have to submit also a stage directing dossier. Those who have not presented a scene can produce an imaginary directing plan "on paper".
Student Assessment methods
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Βιβλίο [22921661]: "Οι διάλογοι από την αγορά χαλκού", Μπέρτολτ Μπρέχτ.
Βιβλίο [22921664]: "ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΟΥ ΘΕΑΤΡΟΥ, Κείμενα των Αρτώ, Πιραντέλλο, Σόου, Μπρέχτ, Πισκάτορ, Μπέργκμαν, Τοκβίλ, 'Απια, Γκρέηγκ".
Βιβλίο [1362]: Σαίξπηρ ο σύγχρονός μας, Γιαν Κοττ Λεπτομέρειες
Βιβλίο [1362]: Γιαν Κοττ, "Σαίξπηρ ο σύγχρονός μας".
Additional bibliography for study
Jindrich Honzl, «Η κινητικότητα του θεατρικού σημείου», σκηνή τχ. 1 (2010), σ. 7-26 - http://ejournals.lib.auth.gr/skene/article/view/233/211.
Last Update
06-11-2020
