„Nieodzowność nieuchwytnego” w autorskiej twórczości grupy Med a prach – odejście od słowa i dialogu
The Indispensability of the Elusive in the Works of the Med a prach Group – the Departure from Word and Dialogue

Author(s): Elena Knopová
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Med a prach; Bartimejove pašie; Domov Eros Viera; Krasa a hnus; performance; installation concert;
Summary/Abstract: Med a prach is a theater group which simply uses the term “stage works” to refer to its intermedial and intertextual productions. These are post-traditional theatrical forms; which combine traditional genres and theatrical elements with new perspectives (for instance; theateroratory; theatre-sound concert; performance as instrumental and vocal movement composition with an epic narrative ground). They employ means from a range of many arts (music; live painting; performance; literature); frequently tackling abstract subjects such as human and Christian values; beauty; monstrosity; faith. The scripts (librettos) take the form of varied collages. There; we find song lyrics; folk ballads; fragments of famous literary works; notes on musical motifs; dance or movement sequences; possible mise-en-scene and score solutions; employment of props; visual elements; comments on the effects of the role of the visual aspect on the audience; etc.The text of the librettos has a lose structure; and is; by assumption; an inspiration (an initiating interpretation of the subject) during the collective process of rehearsals. In case of words; it is not their univocal meaning which is of greatest importance; but their hidden melody; emotional colour and associations.

• Details
• Contents