🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Description

Introduction to the complex phenomenon of the performing arts (Theater, Dance, Performance, Music Theater), their history, their connections and affinities. Study of their traditional and modern manifestations, as well as their historical development. Emphasis on the concept of performance, its characteristics and functions. Study of the effects of the stage performer, the spectator, space, time and body in the context of the performance process. Introduction to the basic tools for reading works of performing arts, as well as to the main theoretical tools for their understanding.

Upon successful completion of the course, students:

• know the main contributors and the main parameters of the performance.

• are familiar with the main historical phases of the performance and recognize its different cultural origins.

• recognize the main genre categories of the performance and the dialogue between them.

• have the basic tools for reading performances critically.

• are able to develop critical thinking on the occasion of specific examples of realized performances and use it in their written work.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory

1. What is Performance?
2. Performer and actor
3. Venues of the performance
4. Spectator and audience
5. Stories of the show 1: Ritual and performance
6. Stories of the show 2: Theatre and drama
7. Stories of the show 3: Non-dramatic forms of performance from antiquity to the Baroque
8. Stories of the performance 4: Opera and musical theatre
9. Stories of the show 5: Dance
10. Presentation and feedback of semester papers
11. Stories of the performance 6: From the prevalence of drama to its judgment
12. Stories of the performance 7: From the avant-gardes of modernity to the post-dramatic
13. The Future of the Show

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Short Answer Questions (10%)

• Written assignments (30%)

• Written exam (60%)

• Face-to-face
• Use of ICT in teaching
• Use of ICT when communicating with students.
• Learning process through an electronic platform.
• Communication with students via email and through an electronic chat space in the e-class.

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/2871/

🔵 🔴 🟡 Recommended Books (Eudoxus)

• Balme, Christopher, Introduction to Theatre Studies, Plethron, Athens 2016.
• Pavis, Patrice, Theatre Dictionary, Gutenberg, Athens 2006.

Additional bibliography

• Bablet, Denis, History of Contemporary Directing: 1887-1914 (First Volume), University Studio Press, Thessaloniki 2009.
• Carlson, Marvin, Performance -A Critical Introduction, Papazisis, Athens 2014.
• Fischer-Lichte, Erika, Theatre and Metamorphosis: Towards a New Aesthetics of Performance, Patakis. Athens 2013.
• Fischer-Lichte, Erika, History of European Drama and Theatre, vol. 1 & 2, Plethron, 2012.
• Jacqueline Jomaron, History of Contemporary Directing: 1914-1940 (Volume II), University Studio Press, Thessaloniki 2009.
• Barba, E. & Savarese, N., The Secret Art of the Actor, Koan, Athens 2008.
• Barbousi, Vasso, Dance in the 20th century, Kastaniotis, Athens 2010.
• Puchner, Walter, An Introduction to the Science of Theatre, Papazisis, Athens 2011.
• Schechner, Richard, The Theory of Performance, Telethrio, Athens 2011.
• Schechner, Richard, Performance Studies. An Introduction, Routledge, London 2002.