Output details
35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
University of Birmingham : B - Drama
Chapter title
L'acteur, la machine emotionelle
Type
C - Chapter in book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
L'Entretemps
Book title
Mickhael Tchekov/Michael Chekhov, de Moscou à Hollywood, du Théatre au cinéma : Michael Chekhov, from Moscow to Hollywood, from the theatre to the cinema
ISBN of book
9782912877031
Year of publication
2009
URL
-
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
-
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
None
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
Yes
English abstract
Three Russian innovators in actor training, Stanislavsky, Meyerhold and Michael Chekhov, claimed their methods were supported by current scientific discoveries. Paradigmatic ideas of their epoch conceptualised the human body as a machine with spiritual and emotional dimensions; and considered how the ‘mechanical’ aspects of the human organism could best function, in accordance with science. The three had different solutions to problems of the anatomy and physiology of acting and mechanics of emotion and/or spiritual mechanisms - in short, how the actor can move and speak with maximum efficiency and expressiveness, The article analyses the reasons for these differences in approach.
