Philosophy
Scenography is the art of global formalization of the space
for a theatrical performance. The scenographer is
responsible for all what is concerned in spatial and visual
aspects of a performance. Creation of a setting for a
staging, fitting of a whole space for a performance,
conception of a theatre place : scenographer's interventions
may vary in forms and importance.
Every formal setting work of a thinking about space as
performance place belongs to scenography. That's the reason
why these branch is more and more often extending beyond the
strictly theatrical domain towards fields which are staking
the concept of representation : exhibitions, museums, urban
spaces, … — wherever space is perceived as bringing about
some signification.
Education
The School of Scenography is turning out scenographers who
are knowing deeply conception, functionning and realization
of the theatre place in its most extended acceptation :
theatre of course, but also music-hall, concert, animation,
television, cinema, but moreover museum, exhibition,
advertising, architecture, town-planning. However, the
groundwork of the teaching remains the theatre, because it's
there that the relations between meaning and space are at
the same time the most many-sided and the most
understandable.
Thereby is the education based on three main axes :
- the space of the theatre, its
history, its representation, its expression;
- the technique of settings,
costumes, lighting and sound;
- the dramaturgy, the
relation between text and acting.
Studies organization
The School of Scenography Saint-Luc provides a short-time
éducation cursus, which extends on three years. As a social
promotion school, it offers a shifted time-table, at the
rate of three hours four evenings a week.
The studies require moreover a lot of hard home work |
