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35 - Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts
University of Birmingham : B - Drama
L'acteur, la machine emotionelle
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.