The Department of Dramatic Theatre (, abbreviated DAMU) is one of three departments at the
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (alongside the
Film and TV school and the Department of Music). The academy was opened in 1945 immediately after the Second World War as a part of the newly created academy for the arts. The department's teachers have included prominent personalities in
modern Czech theatre, such as
Otomar Krejča, set designer , , director , and . DAMU is a member of the
European League of Institutes of the Arts
ELIA (formerly known as The European League of Institutes of the Arts) represents some 300.000 students in all art disciplines.
History
ELIA emerged from a conference organized in Amsterdam in 1990, ''Imagination and Diversity'', aimed to pro ...
(ELIA) and the
European network on cultural management and policy (ENCATC).
Departments
The two main departments of the school are:
* Department of Dramatic Theatre, which prepares students for the repertory theatre system and educates them in interpreting classic and contemporary texts
* Department of Alternative Theatre and Puppetry, including a sub-department devoted to scenography and a division for alternative stage design
Other departments include:
* Department of Stage Design
* Department of Authorial Creation and Pedagogy, educating in performance, including an improvisational acting discipline developed by Professor
Ivan Vyskočil, called "Acting with the Inner Partner".
* Department of Drama in Education, educating in the role of theatre in education
* Department of Theory and Criticism, educating in theatre criticism and theoretical subjects
* Department of Arts Management, educating in theatre management
The Department of Dramatic Theatre has recently introduced doctoral studies in four areas:
* Stage Creation and the Theory of Stage Creation
* Theory and Practice of Theatre Creation
* Alternative Theatre, Puppetry and its Theory
* Authorial Acting and Theory of Authorial Creation and Pedagogy
Notable alumni
*
Anda-Louise Bogza, Romanian singer.
*
Ivana Chýlková (born 1963), Czech actress, graduated from DAMU in 1985.
*
Štěpánka Haničincová
Štěpánka Haničincová (née Hubáčková; 30 September 1931 – 27 October 1999) was a Czechs, Czech actress, screenwriter, dramaturge and children's television presenter.
Early life
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, TV presenter.
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Petr Haničinec, actor
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* ]Juraj Herz
Juraj Herz (4 September 1934 – 8 April 2018) was a Slovak film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s. He is best known for his 1969 horror/black comedy '' The Cremator'', often ci ...
, Slovak film director ('' The Cremator''), studied at DAMU's Department of Puppetry in 1954–1958.Tomáš Klus
Tomáš Klus (born 15 May 1986) is a Czech musician and songwriter from the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic.
Life and career
Klus was born in the industrial town of Třinec, where he spent most of his childhood. His parents were ...
(born 1986), Czech singer-songwriter, graduated from DAMU in drama in 2012.
* Jan Kubíček
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(1927–2013), Czech constructivist painter and graphic designer, studied at DAMU in 1954–1957.
* Karel Roden (born 1962), Czech actor, graduated from DAMU in 1985.Jan Švankmajer
Jan Švankmajer (born 4 September 1934) is a Czech retired
(born 1934), Czech film-maker and animator, studied at DAMU's Department of Puppetry in 1954-1958.dramaturgy
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.
Deans of DAMU
* 1946–1948 Jiří Frejka Jiří (; ''YI-RZHEE'') is a Czech masculine given name, equivalent to English George. Notable people with the name include:
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* Georg Benda (Jiří Antonín Benda), Czech composer, violinist and Kapellmeister
* Jiří Baborovský, Czech phys ...
* 1948–1949 Klementina Rektorisová
* 1949–1950 František Götz
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* Frank Daniel (Franti ...
* 1950–1952 Jan Kopecký
* 1952–1953 František Götz
* 1953–1954 Vladimír Adámek
* 1954–1955 František Salzer
František Salzer (30 August 1902, Sušice – 23 December 1974, Prague) was a Czechoslovak Theatre Director, Theatre Actor, Film Actor, University Professor and Translator.
Biography
He studied at Prague Conservatory (1920–1924).
In the ...
* 1955–1958 Josef Bezdíček
* 1958–1961 František Salzer
* 1961–1963 Antonín Dvořák
* 1963–1970 František Salzer
* 1970–1972 Jan Císař
* 1972–1985 Eva Šmeralová
* 1985–1989 Jana Makovská
* 1990–1991 Jan Dušek
* 1991–1994 Miloslav Klíma
* 1994–1997 Miloš Horanský
* 1997–2000 Vladimír Mikeš
* 2000–2006 Markéta Kočvarová-Schartová
* 2006–2013 Jan Hančil
* 2013–2020
* 2020–present
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References
External links
Faculty of Theatre - official web
The Prague Summer Theatre School at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU)
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Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
Art schools in the Czech Republic
Drama schools in the Czech Republic
1946 establishments in Czechoslovakia
Universities and colleges established in 1946