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Well..
Yeah..
And what if it were about the process of making it?
..Well?
How about we made it as an action movie? You know, like the blockbuster movies in the summer
…a lot of breathing, dynamic action… maybe some cool guy running around, focused, determined…
I was just an ordinary lad from a small village
Wait..what if I said it in the third person…
He was just an ordinary lad from a small village
But everything changed when he arrived in Prague to study art…
He liked composing songs…
He wrote his own authorial texts..
He did theatre…
But what kind of school would best develop all his talents?
And what if it were a documentary? About our department… how the things really are.
True stories about real people.
No, this music sucks…something a bit more serious. Like this one.
I don’t know exactly, but it all begun in the 2010s…
we were a bunch of strange people..
but then, suddenly…something started to happen, you know.
I actually didn’t know who I was before KATAP.
When I went to KATAP,
I realized who I could never be, really.
KATAP it was always like that.
People would ask me… and who are you?
There are still the same discussions about this… and that’s what it’s about.
The continuous discussions.
None of us knew what we’re applying for.
And if someone says he knew, he is full of crap.
I think that we were just young, you know.
You could say that our year was ground –breaking, in some sense.
And we blossomed … into roses.
Well, KATAP…is about who you are.
And they asked me…KATAP?
And I answered…KATAP.
I think that sound good, doesn’t it?
And what if it were like…a girl on a date.
Yea exactly! A stunning girl with a rather shy boy.
I mean… a handsome figure, a bit mysterious..
I would check him out all nervous,
then we would exchange the looks and he would wink at me with that look, you know, and then..
And what if he were an introverted intellectual?
Yes…that’s more like it.
And then, there would be this embarrassing moment,
we would be staring at each other, and I could no longer wait and would have to ask…
and what do you study?
KATAP.
Speech as active communication?
Yeah.
InterActing with the Inner Partner as a psychosomatic discipline based on Stanislavski’s concept of public solitude?
Yeah.
Feldenkrais method, training for movement, interpreting dramatic texts, voice education, finding your own authorial voice?
Nhung is asking if it can be a musical.
May you have a dancer’s soul
Or that one of a writer
It all matters very little
It is all the same
You might do this or that
or even something else
In the end yours will always be an author’s voice
But can you really tell from this that it’s about the process of individual authorial expression…
It is missing the dialog.
I think that we’re missing more on psychosomatic disciplines… it’s not clear what the department is really about, you know.
I’m not sure if the theme of authenticity is clear from this...it can be a musical, an action movie or whatever but…
For me it is important that…
From the founder of the Theatre on the Balustrade, an actor, playwright and pedagogue,
Ivan Vyskocil,
the Department of Authorial Creativity and Pedagogy at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
KATAP
What if we just say KATAP?
Wel..
Or just katap.