PERFORMING ARTS – PUPPETRY

In the Performing Arts (Puppets – Marionettes) Bachelor's programme, students become familiar with the artistic and technical elements specific to animation theatre and are involved, under the coordination of the teaching staff, in productions that emphasize the contemporary trends of the puppetry performance." Students have the opportunity to develop their individual skills by building and practicing with the main types of puppets (from simple objects to marionettes, from hand (bibabo) puppets to wayang and muppet-style puppets, to bunraku and shadow theatre), experiencing puppet animation in different theatrical styles (popular, musical, comic, experimental). The curriculum combines theoretical and practical disciplines, and students are encouraged to collaborate with other specializations to create performances within interdisciplinary creative and research teams." The compulsory subjects studied include: Art of Puppet Handling, Art of Marionette Handling, The Art of the Actor, Stage Speech, Vocal Technique (Musical Knowledge, Canto), The History of Universal Theatre, Universal Literature, Puppet Theatre, etc."