Bending Time: Dramaturgical Principles in the Project Work of Eliška Brtnická and Collective; [Ohýbání času: Dramaturgické principy v projektovém způsobu práce Elišky Brtnické a kolektivu]

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F25%3ADFQ89EHP" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/25:DFQ89EHP - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/TY2024-1-9" target="_blank" >10.5817/TY2024-1-9</a>

Result language

čeština

Original language name

Bending Time: Dramaturgical Principles in the Project Work of Eliška Brtnická and Collective; [Ohýbání času: Dramaturgické principy v projektovém způsobu práce Elišky Brtnické a kolektivu]

Original language description

This case study describes dramaturgical decisions made in rehearsing the contemporary circus (nouveau cirque) performance Thin Skin (2022) by Czech acrobat Eliška Brtnická and her collective. It provides an overview of the transformations of dramaturgy in physical theatre and contemporary circus, particularly in the context of post-dramatic theatre, with an emphasis on the starting points in circus technique itself. Dramaturgy is understood in the text as a practice that encompasses multiple functions and forms. These unfold and interact over the course of rehearsal. The process of dramaturgical decisions is related to the working conditions of contemporary art in the Czech Republic, especially the residency system and the project-based way of working. Bojana Kunst’s critical analysis of the ‘projective temporality’ is correlated with the interpretation of data obtained mainly through participant observation of rehearsals and interviews with the creative team. The dramaturgical decisions related to the project work are interpreted in terms of the unstable position of contemporary circus artists in the Czech Republic, the ways in which they collaborate in a series of residencies, the ambivalent temporal constellation in projecting outcomes that have yet to emerge, and the specific interplay and orientation of decisions that move from rehearsals to the space of instant social communication. The study thus provides a detailed account of how dramaturgy in the new circus is related to working conditions, exhaustion, and lack of time. It also shows how these circumstances are reflected in the work itself. This work emphasises fragility, instability, and the relationship between matter, body, and time. © 2024 Masaryk University. All rights reserved.

Czech name

Bending Time: Dramaturgical Principles in the Project Work of Eliška Brtnická and Collective; [Ohýbání času: Dramaturgické principy v projektovém způsobu práce Elišky Brtnické a kolektivu]

Czech description

This case study describes dramaturgical decisions made in rehearsing the contemporary circus (nouveau cirque) performance Thin Skin (2022) by Czech acrobat Eliška Brtnická and her collective. It provides an overview of the transformations of dramaturgy in physical theatre and contemporary circus, particularly in the context of post-dramatic theatre, with an emphasis on the starting points in circus technique itself. Dramaturgy is understood in the text as a practice that encompasses multiple functions and forms. These unfold and interact over the course of rehearsal. The process of dramaturgical decisions is related to the working conditions of contemporary art in the Czech Republic, especially the residency system and the project-based way of working. Bojana Kunst’s critical analysis of the ‘projective temporality’ is correlated with the interpretation of data obtained mainly through participant observation of rehearsals and interviews with the creative team. The dramaturgical decisions related to the project work are interpreted in terms of the unstable position of contemporary circus artists in the Czech Republic, the ways in which they collaborate in a series of residencies, the ambivalent temporal constellation in projecting outcomes that have yet to emerge, and the specific interplay and orientation of decisions that move from rehearsals to the space of instant social communication. The study thus provides a detailed account of how dramaturgy in the new circus is related to working conditions, exhaustion, and lack of time. It also shows how these circumstances are reflected in the work itself. This work emphasises fragility, instability, and the relationship between matter, body, and time. © 2024 Masaryk University. All rights reserved.

Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

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Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Theatralia

ISSN

1803845X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

21

Pages from-to

194 - 214

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85200445192