Introduction - Dora.dmu.ac.uk
... Therefore this study uses a methodology that draws on both Foucault’s notion of genealogy (1977) and feminist forms of historiography (Scott, 1999) and presents a contrast to many traditional histories which, as Foucault notes, involves historians pretending to ‘[examine] things furthest from themse ...
... Therefore this study uses a methodology that draws on both Foucault’s notion of genealogy (1977) and feminist forms of historiography (Scott, 1999) and presents a contrast to many traditional histories which, as Foucault notes, involves historians pretending to ‘[examine] things furthest from themse ...
EUGENE VAKHTANGOV`S INFLUENCE UPON
... experiences, but they were originated in our soul in a different order according to a different logic than those necessary for an artistic image, and therefore. the work of an actor consists in extracting the traces of those emotions from various corners of his own soul and then lining them up in a ...
... experiences, but they were originated in our soul in a different order according to a different logic than those necessary for an artistic image, and therefore. the work of an actor consists in extracting the traces of those emotions from various corners of his own soul and then lining them up in a ...
Teaching Stanislavski - Higher Education Academy
... Stanislavski in the UK. It is, we hope, a small step towards a fuller documentation of Stanislavski-based performance pedagogy over the past fifty years. The study does pose questions for us as practitioners and educators. It is surprising that for teachers of acting and for those who teach the hist ...
... Stanislavski in the UK. It is, we hope, a small step towards a fuller documentation of Stanislavski-based performance pedagogy over the past fifty years. The study does pose questions for us as practitioners and educators. It is surprising that for teachers of acting and for those who teach the hist ...
Developing embodied pedagogies of acting for youth
... in the compound term. I find it obvious that in the artistic work of a professional actor the embodied ways to work and the more conventional, text-based ones co-exist. Instead, in my experience of young people interested in acting, acquired through more than twenty years of working as a theatre tea ...
... in the compound term. I find it obvious that in the artistic work of a professional actor the embodied ways to work and the more conventional, text-based ones co-exist. Instead, in my experience of young people interested in acting, acquired through more than twenty years of working as a theatre tea ...
stanislavski and postmodernism - eTheses Repository
... terms can still be seen as having a sense of a unique and individual essence. It was this unique sense of Self that Stanislavski saw as the source of each actor’s inspiration and material for performance. Whyman points out that ‘Stanislavski asserted that the ‘experiences which are analogous to the ...
... terms can still be seen as having a sense of a unique and individual essence. It was this unique sense of Self that Stanislavski saw as the source of each actor’s inspiration and material for performance. Whyman points out that ‘Stanislavski asserted that the ‘experiences which are analogous to the ...
Towards a theatre of psychagogia - Central Research and Creativity
... motorbike to go to the theatre. The architectural paradox of the ancient and the modern in this city reflects the historical and mythological stories of Greek antiquity that consciously or unconsciously penetrate my contemporary being. Within this landscape, I took two paths; I studied both acting ...
... motorbike to go to the theatre. The architectural paradox of the ancient and the modern in this city reflects the historical and mythological stories of Greek antiquity that consciously or unconsciously penetrate my contemporary being. Within this landscape, I took two paths; I studied both acting ...
Realistic Acting Methods in Non-Realistic Theatre
... being exposed to the exercises of one of his prolific disciples, Maria Knebel, who expanded upon his original ideas. My first two years in college were spent performing the basic exercises of these Russian practitioners with their culmination being my study abroad semester at Stanislavsky’s own Mosc ...
... being exposed to the exercises of one of his prolific disciples, Maria Knebel, who expanded upon his original ideas. My first two years in college were spent performing the basic exercises of these Russian practitioners with their culmination being my study abroad semester at Stanislavsky’s own Mosc ...
MICHA News – 2006-2007
... determine the value of such pre-conference sessions in which extended time could be taken to work in the studio prior to the full ATHE conference. It was forcefully stated that sessions like ours were not only enjoyable but extremely helpful and brought many people to the Technique who had never bef ...
... determine the value of such pre-conference sessions in which extended time could be taken to work in the studio prior to the full ATHE conference. It was forcefully stated that sessions like ours were not only enjoyable but extremely helpful and brought many people to the Technique who had never bef ...
Michael Chekhov as Actor, Teacher and Director in the West
... he opened a laboratory where he started at the beginning of the technique of acting, and he took people through the whole of it in every aspect. Chekhov's exploration was founded on the Moscow Art Theatre studio organization, on its spirit and principles; these he tried to implant first on English, ...
... he opened a laboratory where he started at the beginning of the technique of acting, and he took people through the whole of it in every aspect. Chekhov's exploration was founded on the Moscow Art Theatre studio organization, on its spirit and principles; these he tried to implant first on English, ...
Shakespeare`s original practices and the effect of surprise
... This thesis process has spanned two continents and more than eighteen months of time, and throughout that time and space I have been helped along the way by many people, without whom this project would have been a lonely endeavor. These acknowledgements can never quite cover the breadth of people I ...
... This thesis process has spanned two continents and more than eighteen months of time, and throughout that time and space I have been helped along the way by many people, without whom this project would have been a lonely endeavor. These acknowledgements can never quite cover the breadth of people I ...
Play Me Ishmael: Moby-Dick'
... appropriately theatrical (nigh Shakespearean) “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” and then leapt to the stage (Bogar 2). The assassination took place in Lincoln's audience box, and while this was surely a strategic act by Booth to ensure the President's vulnerability, the tradition of political performances usin ...
... appropriately theatrical (nigh Shakespearean) “Sic Semper Tyrannis,” and then leapt to the stage (Bogar 2). The assassination took place in Lincoln's audience box, and while this was surely a strategic act by Booth to ensure the President's vulnerability, the tradition of political performances usin ...
Unit Title: Exploring Acting Styles, Techniques, and Methods
... In this unit, students will examine the Fundamental strand of the styles, techniques and methods of various theatrical practitioners. The Fundamental strand focuses on the students’ exploration of different approaches to character creation and development established by individual teachers/theorists ...
... In this unit, students will examine the Fundamental strand of the styles, techniques and methods of various theatrical practitioners. The Fundamental strand focuses on the students’ exploration of different approaches to character creation and development established by individual teachers/theorists ...
Acting in Opera: A Stanislavsky Approach.
... and creates is a mystery which he carries into the grave with him. Some do it simply because they don't know themselves, because they create intuitively and have no conscious relation to their creations. Others know very well what, why, and how things are done. But it is their patented secret, which ...
... and creates is a mystery which he carries into the grave with him. Some do it simply because they don't know themselves, because they create intuitively and have no conscious relation to their creations. Others know very well what, why, and how things are done. But it is their patented secret, which ...
Seagull - Glow Blogs
... for popularizing the full-length plays of Anton Chekhov and was the home of the seminal acting teacher Constantin Stanislavski.) Dalcroze gave a presentation at the state theatre in St. Petersburg, the home of the influential young director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, the man who Stanislavski entrusted his ...
... for popularizing the full-length plays of Anton Chekhov and was the home of the seminal acting teacher Constantin Stanislavski.) Dalcroze gave a presentation at the state theatre in St. Petersburg, the home of the influential young director, Vsevolod Meyerhold, the man who Stanislavski entrusted his ...
Actor Training in Six Shakespeare Companies
... geographically removed from major centers of employment. Further, group training sessions serve as a means of bonding the ensemble of actors together. Finally, the training implies to the actors that they are expected to improve themselves throughout their contract, which encourages them to focus mo ...
... geographically removed from major centers of employment. Further, group training sessions serve as a means of bonding the ensemble of actors together. Finally, the training implies to the actors that they are expected to improve themselves throughout their contract, which encourages them to focus mo ...
thEAtrE ExpEriEncE thEAtEr ExpEriEncE
... Theater is most concerned with the study of humanity. The process of preparing for a performance requires the ability to step outside oneself and value the perspective of another human being. Theater exposes us to new ideas or reinforces time-tested values. Theater is a creative, collaborative, and ...
... Theater is most concerned with the study of humanity. The process of preparing for a performance requires the ability to step outside oneself and value the perspective of another human being. Theater exposes us to new ideas or reinforces time-tested values. Theater is a creative, collaborative, and ...
Copeau and Brook on Acting - CITA | International Centre for
... insincerity, or rather of falseness. He who suffers from it ceases to be authentic, to be human. He is discredited, unnatural. a m not only speaking o f the 'so-called stars', o f those phenomena, those poor monsters whose deformities are too obvious to require description. I am speaking of all acto ...
... insincerity, or rather of falseness. He who suffers from it ceases to be authentic, to be human. He is discredited, unnatural. a m not only speaking o f the 'so-called stars', o f those phenomena, those poor monsters whose deformities are too obvious to require description. I am speaking of all acto ...
Directing Actors
... Directing Actors The Craft of acting -directing actors can be taught as craft -you’ve got to completely let go of doing things “right” -you have chosen a profession where mistakes are not always bad. Sometimes a mistake is our subconscious speaking and we ought to listen -you will make mistakes. We ...
... Directing Actors The Craft of acting -directing actors can be taught as craft -you’ve got to completely let go of doing things “right” -you have chosen a profession where mistakes are not always bad. Sometimes a mistake is our subconscious speaking and we ought to listen -you will make mistakes. We ...
The Vakhtangov Technique - UAL Research Online
... Vakhtangov looked at this problem from a different perspective. By means of the stage character’s essence he wanted to reach the essence of the personality of the actor playing it. To this end he first established the supremacy of the creative game as forming the foundation of theatre, supported by ...
... Vakhtangov looked at this problem from a different perspective. By means of the stage character’s essence he wanted to reach the essence of the personality of the actor playing it. To this end he first established the supremacy of the creative game as forming the foundation of theatre, supported by ...
New Theatre Quarterly Embodying, Imagining, and Performing
... sources and strategies would then be shaped into a montage whose underlying aesthetic was to be textured as a weaving – the traces of an image or fragment of text in one structure might have resonances via juxtaposition and/or tension with the traces of another. From my directorial perspective, what ...
... sources and strategies would then be shaped into a montage whose underlying aesthetic was to be textured as a weaving – the traces of an image or fragment of text in one structure might have resonances via juxtaposition and/or tension with the traces of another. From my directorial perspective, what ...
Prof. Zoja BUZALKOVSKA
... It has been exactly 120 years since V.E. Meyerhold first left the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) and started working on something which was soon to seriously challenge the system of K.S. Stanislavki in regard to the method of working with actors and an actor’s work on himself and his role. Interestingly e ...
... It has been exactly 120 years since V.E. Meyerhold first left the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) and started working on something which was soon to seriously challenge the system of K.S. Stanislavki in regard to the method of working with actors and an actor’s work on himself and his role. Interestingly e ...
The Actor and his Presence (Dialogi 3
... How to conserve the actor at the symposium On the problematic conservation of theatre culture held as part of the Maribor Theatre Festival in 1987.1 In his later texts the emphasis shifted to selected roles from contemporary theatre production. As the compilation of these texts Tiho`itja in grimase ...
... How to conserve the actor at the symposium On the problematic conservation of theatre culture held as part of the Maribor Theatre Festival in 1987.1 In his later texts the emphasis shifted to selected roles from contemporary theatre production. As the compilation of these texts Tiho`itja in grimase ...
Education Resource Guide - Pittsburgh Public Theater
... He did not last in college, and for the next several years Kaufman worked at various jobs including the payroll clerk at the Allegheny County tax office. Kaufman often covered stories regarding the theater with Marc Connelly, who had similar responsibilities with his paper, The Morning Telegraph. Co ...
... He did not last in college, and for the next several years Kaufman worked at various jobs including the payroll clerk at the Allegheny County tax office. Kaufman often covered stories regarding the theater with Marc Connelly, who had similar responsibilities with his paper, The Morning Telegraph. Co ...
Chapter 5: Acting
... Acting is “one of the elements that’s often left out when people talk theoretically about the movies. They forget it’s the human material we go to see” [Pauline Kael]. The power of some actors to draw an audience is frequently more important to a movie’s financial success than any other factor. Ther ...
... Acting is “one of the elements that’s often left out when people talk theoretically about the movies. They forget it’s the human material we go to see” [Pauline Kael]. The power of some actors to draw an audience is frequently more important to a movie’s financial success than any other factor. Ther ...