The Stanislavsky Technique

Author : Edward Dwight Easty
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307823779

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On Method Acting by Edward Dwight Easty Pdf

Practiced by such actors of stature as Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, Julie Harris, Dustin Hoffman, and Ellen Burstyn (not to mention the late James Dean) the Method offers a practical application of the renowned Stanislavsky technique. On Method Acting demystifies the "mysteries" of Method acting -- breaking down the various steps into clear and simple terms, including chapters on: Sense Memory -- the most vital component of Method acting Improvisation -- without it, the most integral part of the Method is lost Animal Exercises -- just one way to combat the mental blocks that prevent actors from grasping a character Creating The Outer Character -- so actors can give the freshness of originality to a role while at the same time living the life of the character On Method Acting is also an indispensable volume for directors, designers, lighting technicians, and anyone in the dramatic arts interested in creating a believable and realistic effect in their productions.

Author : Mel Gordon
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015014563491

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The Stanislavsky Technique by Mel Gordon Pdf

Stop reading about Stanislavsky and wondering what it's all supposed to mean. Meet the master and his disciples as they evolve new techniques and exercises in a workshop atmosphere over a quarter of a century.

Author : Mel Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Acting
ISBN : OCLC:123200309

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The Stanislavsky Technique: Russia by Mel Gordon Pdf

Author : Constantin Stanislavski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135855260

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Building A Character by Constantin Stanislavski Pdf

Building a Character is one of the three volumes that make up Stanislavski’s The Acting Trilogy. An Actor Prepares explores the inner preparation an actor must undergo in order to explore a role to the full. In this volume, Sir John Gielgud said, this great director “found time to explain a thousand things that have always troubled actors and fascinated students.” Building a Character discusses the external techniques of acting: the use of the body, movement, diction, singing, expression, and control. Creating a Role describes the preparation that precedes actual performance, with extensive discussions of Gogol’s The Inspector General and Shakespeare’s Othello. Sir Paul Scofield called Creating a Role “immeasurably important” for the actor. These three volumes belong on any actor’s short shelf of essential books.

Author : Irina Levin,Igor Levin
Publisher : Meriwether Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1566080797

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The Stanislavsky Secret by Irina Levin,Igor Levin Pdf

Everyone in theatre knows his name but only a few know Stanislavsky's last work. He died before writing any of his final discoveries for print. Only his colleagues and their pupils knew them. They are the ones, since 1938, who have been refining Stanislavsky's final ideas of modern theatre. Now, finally this book summarises these last concepts in an orderly text for teachers and students. In six comprehensive chapters the authors reveal Stanislavsky's method to help actors to transform themselves into believable and fascinating stage characters.

Author : Stephanie Daventry French,Philip G. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136519345

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Experiencing Stanislavsky Today by Stephanie Daventry French,Philip G. Bennett Pdf

This pioneering introduction to Stanislavsky's methods and modes of actor training covers all of the essential elements of his System. Recreating ‘truthful’ behaviour in the artificial environment, awareness and observation, psychophysical work, given circumstances, visualization and imagination, and active analysis are all introduced and explored. Each section of the book is accompanied by individual and group exercises, forming a full course of study in the foundations of modern acting. A glossary explains the key terms and concepts that are central to Stanislavsky’s thinking at a glance. The book’s companion website is full of downloadable worksheets and resources for teachers and students. Experiencing Stanislavsky Today is enhanced by contemporary findings in psychology, neuroscience, anatomy and physiology that illuminate the human processes important to actors, such as voice and speech, creativity, mind-body connection, the process and the production of emotions on cue. It is the definitive first step for anyone encountering Stanislavsky’s work, from acting students exploring his methods for the first time, to directors looking for effective rehearsal tools and teachers mapping out degree classes.

Author : Michael Chekhov
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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To the Actor by Michael Chekhov Pdf

In this practical guide, renowned actor and director Michael Chekhov shares his innovative approach to the craft of acting. Drawing on his extensive experience in the theater and his unique understanding of the actor's creative process, Chekhov presents a comprehensive system of techniques designed to help actors develop their physical, mental, and emotional abilities. Through a series of exercises and principles, actors can learn to create compelling, truthful performances that captivate audiences and bring characters to life on stage and screen.

Author : Konstantin Stanislavski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315474243

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An Actor's Work by Konstantin Stanislavski Pdf

Stanislavski’s ‘system’ has dominated actor-training in the West since his writings were first translated into English in the 1920s and 30s. His systematic attempt to outline a psycho-physical technique for acting single-handedly revolutionized standards of acting in the theatre. Until now, readers and students have had to contend with inaccurate, misleading and difficult-to-read English-language versions. Some of the mistranslations have resulted in profound distortions in the way his system has been interpreted and taught. At last, Jean Benedetti has succeeded in translating Stanislavski’s huge manual into a lively, fascinating and accurate text in English. He has remained faithful to the author's original intentions, putting the two books previously known as An Actor Prepares and Building A Character back together into one volume, and in a colloquial and readable style for today's actors. The result is a major contribution to the theatre, and a service to one of the great innovators of the twentieth century. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by the director Richard Eyre.

Author : Sanford Meisner,Dennis Longwell
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307830630

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Sanford Meisner on Acting by Sanford Meisner,Dennis Longwell Pdf

Sanford Meisner was one of the best known and beloved teachers of acting in the country. This book follows one of his acting classes for fifteen months, beginning with the most rudimentary exercises and ending with affecting and polished scenes from contemporary American plays. Written in collaboration with Dennis Longwell, it is essential reading for beginning and professional actors alike. Throughout these pages Meisner is a delight—always empathizing with his students and urging them onward, provoking emotion, laughter, and growing technical mastery from his charges. With an introduction by Sydney Pollack, director of Out of Africa and Tootsie, who worked with Meisner for five years. "This book should be read by anyone who wants to act or even appreciate what acting involves. Like Meisner's way of teaching, it is the straight goods."—Arthur Miller "If there is a key to good acting, this one is it, above all others. Actors, young and not so young, will find inspiration and excitement in this book."—Gregory Peck

Author : Nick O'Brien
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136945595

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Stanislavski in Practice by Nick O'Brien Pdf

Stanislavski in Practice is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski’s System. Author Nick O’Brien makes this cornerstone of acting accessible to teachers and students alike. This is an exercise book for students and a lesson planner for teachers on syllabi from Edexcel, WJEC and AQA to the practice-based requirements of BTEC. Each element of the System is covered practically through studio exercises and jargon-free discussion. Over a decade’s experience of acting and teaching makes O’Brien perfectly placed to advise anyone wanting to understand or apply Stanislavski’s system. Features include: Practical extension work for students to take away from the lesson Notes for teachers on how to use material with different age groups Exam tips for students based on specific syllabi requirements A chapter dedicated to using Stanislavski when rehearsing a text A glossary of terms that students of the System will encounter

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1614276692

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Acting by Anonim Pdf

2014 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "A wealth of material on the theory and practice of acting ... a book which may be read, re-read and absorbed by everyone who assumes the directing of actors or that most difficult task, the teaching of acting." --Quarterly Journal of Speech. Contains early contributions on the craft by Stanislavski, I. Rapoport, M.A. Chekhov, Vakhtangov, Giatsintova, Pudovkin, Zakhava and others. Also includes 25 illustrations related to the stage and the art of acting. Contents include: Introduction / Lee Strasberg -- The actor's responsibility / Constantin Stanislavski -- Direction and acting / Constantin Stanislavski -- The work of the actor / I. Rapoport -- The creative process / I. Sudakov -- Stanislavski's method of acting / M.A. Chekhov -- Preparing for the role: from the diary of E. Vakhtangov / E. Vakhtangov -- Case history of a role / A.S. Giatsintova -- From the production plan of Othello / Constantin Stanislavski -- Film acting: two phases / V.I. Pudovkin -- Principles of directing / B.E. Zakhava -- To his players at the first rehearsal of The blue bird / Constantin Stanislavski.

Author : Nikolai Demidov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317220695

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Nikolai Demidov by Nikolai Demidov Pdf

At the time of his death, Stanislavsky considered Nikolai Demidov to be ‘his only student, who understands the System’. Demidov’s incredibly forward-thinking processes not only continued his teacher’s pioneering work, but also solved the problems of an actor’s creativity that Stanislavsky never conquered. This book brings together Demidov’s five volumes on actor training. Supplementary materials, including transcriptions of Demidov’s classes, and notes and correspondence from the author make this the definitive collection on one of Russian theatre’s most important figures.

Author : Jonathan Pitches
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781134332335

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Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting by Jonathan Pitches Pdf

Providing new insight into the well-known tradition of acting, Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting is the first book to contextualise the Stanislavsky tradition with reference to parallel developments in science. Rooted in practice, it presents an alternative perspective based on philosophy, physics, romantic science and theories of industrial management. Working from historical and archive material, as well as practical sources, Jonathan Pitches traces an evolutionary journey of actor training from the roots of the Russian tradition, Konstantin Stanislavsky, to the contemporary Muscovite director, Anatoly Vasiliev. The book explores two key developments that emerge from Stanislavsky’s system – one linear, rational and empirical, while the other is fluid,organic and intuitive. The otherwise highly contrasting acting theories of Vsevolod Meyerhold (biomechanics) and Lee Strasberg (the Method) are dealt with under the banner of the rational or Newtonian paradigm; Michael Chekov’s acting technique and the little known ideas of Anatoly Vasiliev form the centrepiece of the other Romantic, organic strain of practice. Science and the Stanislavsky Tradition of Acting opens up the theatre laboratories of five major practitioners in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and scrutinises their acting methodologies from a scientific perspective.

Author : Elizabeth Y. Kelly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Child actors
ISBN : UOM:39015003627737

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The Magic If by Elizabeth Y. Kelly Pdf

Author : Konstantin Sergeevič Stanislavskij
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:958189537

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An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Sergeevič Stanislavskij Pdf