PQ Talks: Teaching Stage Design

Can art be taught? This is one of the key questions in having a modern perception of stage and costume design, an area that has long since cast off it supporting aspect of pure “outfitting". Due to their concepts of space, signature styles and aesthetics, stage and costume designers, like directors and actors, are a genuine part of an artistic overall concept, characterizing it in an independent, or even resistant, manner. Yet how can artistic authorship be taught? How much practical application does a course of studies require? And how extensive does the inner flexibility of young stage designers need to be, as they make their way between postgraduate studies as a master student, artistic challenges and demands and a regular income? These are some of the questions that Barbara Ehnes, Professor for Stage and Costume Design at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Stage and Costume Designer Teresa Vergho, and Anna Maria Münzner, master student under Barbara Ehnes will discuss with Theater der Zeit editor Dorte Lena Eilers.

PQ Talks, Teaching Stage Design, 26 June, 2 p. m., Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace. With B. Ehnes, A. M. Münzner, T. Vergho. By Theater der Zeit.

photo: Jitka Hejtmanová

photo: Jitka Hejtmanová