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Jaroslav Malina (scenographer)
Jaroslav Malina (5 December 1937 – 14 May 2016) was a Czech scenographer. Born in Prague in 1937, Malina studied at the Pedagogical Faculty of Charles University from 1957 to 1961, then at the Academy of Fine Arts, from which he graduated in 1964, and at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. Malina served on the teaching staff at universities in the United States, Japan, Finland, and Great Britain. In 1990 he became a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts and was its president from 1996 to 1998. He was the commissioner-in-chief of the Prague Quadrennial in 1991, 1999, and 2003. Malina's career covered more than 40 years and included more than 450 scenographic works and costumes for theatre, film, and television, as well as 30 solo exhibitions of his scenographic works, paintings, graphics, and posters. His work away from the stage, or "free work", as he called it, was inextricably tied to his on-stage work. In his later years, his operatic projects were performed in Germany an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scenography
Scenography (inclusive of scenic design, lighting design, sound design, costume design) is a practice of crafting stage environments or atmospheres. In the contemporary English usage, scenography is the combination of technological and material stagecrafts to represent, enact, and produce a sense of place in performance. While inclusive of the techniques of scenic design and set design, scenography is a holistic approach to the study and practice of all aspects of design in performance. Etymology and cultural interpretations The term scenography is of Greek origin (''skēnē'', meaning 'stage or scene building'; ''grapho'', meaning 'to describe') originally detailed within Aristotle's ''Poetics'' as 'skenographia'. Nevertheless, within continental Europe, the term has been closely aligned with the professional practice of scénographie and is synonymous with the English-language term 'theatre design'. More recently, the term has been used in museography with regards to the curati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Research Institute
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actor, actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminology, classification into genres, and many of its theme (arts), themes, stock characters, and plot elements. Theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
