Dramatic Acting

The first two years focus on acquiring basic psychophysical abilities and skills with a gradual emphasis on creating a stage persona. In the third and fourth years, these skills are deepened and directed towards complex team acting, while the theoretical background of acting is strengthened. Students systematically master internal and external technique – working with motivation of action, situation, subtext and genre – and gradually move from etudes and dialogues to full-length productions. The work leads to the exploration of personal themes and the ability to formulate a generational statement; part of this is the development of reflection and self-reflection, which flows into the thesis topic.

The graduate is able to independently analyse a dramatic text from the point of view of acting, choose an adequate method of interpretation and perform it at a professional level (speech, verse, intonation, breathing). He/she has movement maturity (temporal rhythm, plasticity, work with the centre, basic techniques), is capable of psychophysical transformation into a character in different styles of production and creative cooperation with partners and the production team. They can develop special stage skills (e.g. fencing, tap, singing, dancing) according to the needs of the production, work creatively with costume and space and combine elements of different acting methods in an original way. He/she is ready to present the result of the team work publicly and take full responsibility for it.

The teaching is based on acting exercises that map and cultivate one’s own psychophysical self, and improvisational etudes that develop “actorly punctuation” (action-reaction, atmosphere, partner perception, changing character status). The stage realisations of the texts progress from short monologues and dialogues through scenes to closed forms – initially directed by acting teachers, from the third year onwards also by students of directing and dramaturgy. In the fourth year, students stage and rehearse complete productions for the public.

To develop a free, independent and responsible creative personality ready for professional practice, open to new methods and long-term educational growth.