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Pt of series of 4 about the Russian Avant-garde by Copernicus Films and directed by Michael Craig.
The Russian theatre director, Meyerhold devised an acting technique called biomechanics. Using actors this film attempts to recreate his ideas in the context of Russian Theatre of the 1920s. The film is extracts from a larger film about Meyerhold (50 Minutes) which can be found at Amazon or see http://www.createspace.com/224153 for details about how to buy this film and others from Copernicus Films or see site http://www.copernicusfilms.narod.ru


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Nice to find ... ( 1 year ago by Lorthanoth)
Nice to find something about this in video form online. I was introduced to biomechanics through a production I was acting in which utilised some of the ideas. Fascinating stuff!
Thanks for your ... ( 1 year ago by Copernicussun)
Thanks for your message. Much appreciated. If you have any questions please feel free to ask.
Michael
I really loved this ... ( 1 year ago by Got2bsingn117)
I really loved this video. My friend and I are doing a project on biomechanics for our theatre history project. We have to adapt a scene from the Cherry Orchard into constructivism/biomechanics. Some tips on biomechanics would be helpful because we cannot find much on the action of it and hearing it directly would just be great. Any ideas?
Thanks for your ... ( 1 year ago by Copernicussun)
Thanks for your comment, much appreciated. I worked with an actor here in Moscow. We had good fun trying to recreate some of Meyerhold's original ideas and experimenting with our own attempts. Its very difficult to imagine exactly what myerhold had in mind so we tended to improvise in order to show the basic idea of using the body and movement to release an actors potential emotional expressiveness. If you want to ask me anything feel free to ask.
I will mention this ... ( 1 year ago by Lorthanoth)
I will mention this to the director of the the show we did with bio-mechanical elements - she worked with a Russian actor who was frankly astounding (to judge by a video I saw of him)
Just to add. If you ... ( 1 year ago by Copernicussun)
Just to add. If you have any more questions, do ask, although I'm not an expert.
fantastic. Am I ... ( 1 year ago by moominpic)
fantastic. Am I correct that the moves are exaggerated/stylised but not fixed/frozen. The actor must be able to move flowingly from one move to another?
How widely is ... ( 1 year ago by moominpic)
How widely is Meyerhold studied in Russia? Funny thing; I once ran a project for students using commedia dell arte. By mistake one of the participants was from the Kaliningrad theatre and was a professional actor. However, he could not (and would not) do what we asked him because he was sooo grounded in Stanislavskian technique that he couldn't accept the idea of a physical theatre which was not based on internalised characterisation.
thank you again, ... ( 1 year ago by shursts)
thank you again, for pointing me in the direction of this Meyerhold piece. I had the pleasure of being in Moscow for 13 weeks on 2002 and immersed myself in as much theatre history and dom-musees as possible. It was an exciting study though this film has taught me more about Meyerhold than any trip to a museum would have done. Thank you for the illumination.
Hi! We in Zagreb, ... ( 10 months ago by skomdra)
Hi! We in Zagreb, Croatia, hardly have anybody understands the meaning and importance of biomechanics, so do you have any knowledge that somebody would come and make a workshop? You can p.m. me, maybe we can arrange something, I believe that I could find some funding for it Drasko
Very well done! ( 10 months ago by Oshenie)
Very well done!



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