RE; Meyerhold and biomachanics.
Mon, 29 Jan 2001, 02:13 pmWalter Plinge5 posts in thread
RE; Meyerhold and biomachanics.
Mon, 29 Jan 2001, 02:13 pmHa,
I'm a student and I need help to understand how Meyerholds methods of actor training would assist an actor and how his work fits into comp Australian theatre practices today and the implications caused. What evidence is there of Meyerholds work being practised today?
Ta, Ez
I'm a student and I need help to understand how Meyerholds methods of actor training would assist an actor and how his work fits into comp Australian theatre practices today and the implications caused. What evidence is there of Meyerholds work being practised today?
Ta, Ez
Walter PlingeMon, 29 Jan 2001, 02:13 pm
Ha,
I'm a student and I need help to understand how Meyerholds methods of actor training would assist an actor and how his work fits into comp Australian theatre practices today and the implications caused. What evidence is there of Meyerholds work being practised today?
Ta, Ez
I'm a student and I need help to understand how Meyerholds methods of actor training would assist an actor and how his work fits into comp Australian theatre practices today and the implications caused. What evidence is there of Meyerholds work being practised today?
Ta, Ez
Grant MalcolmMon, 29 Jan 2001, 08:02 pm
RE: Meyerhold and biomachanics.
Hi Ez
Just to get the ball rolling and perhaps to confirm that you're not just asking someone to do your homework for you...
;-)
What have you discovered so far about Meyerhold's training methods? Have you managed to dig up any of your own evidence of Meyerhold influencing current Australian theatre practices?
Perhaps it was this discussion that brought you here in the first place:
http://theatre.asn.au/read.php3?num=5&id=369&loc=0&thread=369
Maybe you could argue a standpoint in relation to the views expressed?
Cheers
Grant
PS. Drew, you might want to check out the discussion too in order to find out a little about Meyerhold. There's some informative links in Sharon's post titled MEYERHOLD.
Just to get the ball rolling and perhaps to confirm that you're not just asking someone to do your homework for you...
;-)
What have you discovered so far about Meyerhold's training methods? Have you managed to dig up any of your own evidence of Meyerhold influencing current Australian theatre practices?
Perhaps it was this discussion that brought you here in the first place:
http://theatre.asn.au/read.php3?num=5&id=369&loc=0&thread=369
Maybe you could argue a standpoint in relation to the views expressed?
Cheers
Grant
PS. Drew, you might want to check out the discussion too in order to find out a little about Meyerhold. There's some informative links in Sharon's post titled MEYERHOLD.
Walter PlingeTue, 30 Jan 2001, 12:19 pm
RE: Meyerhold and biomachanics.
Yes!!! Meyerholdian approaches to theatre are being practised in Perth!
As a diresctor I used Meyerholdian methodology in my last two productions 'an elektra', and 'A Radical Re-Interpretation: Chekhov's The Seagull'.
My up and coming production of Dr Koppelius (a Postmodern Rock/Horror Musical) To be performed at the Subiaco Theatre Centre (Studio) in March is a further exploration of practises used by Meyerhold.
From my personal experience I find that actors (and audiences) are so familiar with Stanislavkian 'stylisation' that any other approach becomes at the same time both alienating and invigorating.
His ideas on Bio-Mechanics are still useful but not generally used in modern actor training. More recent understandings of human movement and physical semiotics have replaced them.
My pet theory about the obscurity of Meyerholdian methods today is purely that the acting techniques of Stanislavsky better fit the current dominatant mode of entertainment; Film and Television.
Meyerhold maintained that Theatre was intinsicaly 'theatrical' and that realism was as much a passing phase as expressionism. The ideas of Meyerhold were in a great part appropriated by Brecht.
Interestingly on his death bed Stanislavsky handed over his company Moscow Arts and Entertainment over to Meyerhold and said: "Meyerhold is the future of theatre"
As a diresctor I used Meyerholdian methodology in my last two productions 'an elektra', and 'A Radical Re-Interpretation: Chekhov's The Seagull'.
My up and coming production of Dr Koppelius (a Postmodern Rock/Horror Musical) To be performed at the Subiaco Theatre Centre (Studio) in March is a further exploration of practises used by Meyerhold.
From my personal experience I find that actors (and audiences) are so familiar with Stanislavkian 'stylisation' that any other approach becomes at the same time both alienating and invigorating.
His ideas on Bio-Mechanics are still useful but not generally used in modern actor training. More recent understandings of human movement and physical semiotics have replaced them.
My pet theory about the obscurity of Meyerholdian methods today is purely that the acting techniques of Stanislavsky better fit the current dominatant mode of entertainment; Film and Television.
Meyerhold maintained that Theatre was intinsicaly 'theatrical' and that realism was as much a passing phase as expressionism. The ideas of Meyerhold were in a great part appropriated by Brecht.
Interestingly on his death bed Stanislavsky handed over his company Moscow Arts and Entertainment over to Meyerhold and said: "Meyerhold is the future of theatre"
Grant MalcolmThu, 1 Feb 2001, 06:41 pm
RE: Meyerhold and biomachanics.
Hi Malcolm
Malcolm Crisp wrote:
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> Interestingly on his death bed Stanislavsky handed over his
> company Moscow Arts and Entertainment over to Meyerhold
> and said: "Meyerhold is the future of theatre"
Stanislavsky was wrong.
;-)
Cheers
Grant
PS. I'm sure Dr Koppelius will make for challenging viewing regardless!!
Malcolm Crisp wrote:
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> Interestingly on his death bed Stanislavsky handed over his
> company Moscow Arts and Entertainment over to Meyerhold
> and said: "Meyerhold is the future of theatre"
Stanislavsky was wrong.
;-)
Cheers
Grant
PS. I'm sure Dr Koppelius will make for challenging viewing regardless!!