L'acteur, la machine emotionelle

Translated title of the contribution: The actor and the emotional machine

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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.
Translated title of the contributionThe actor and the emotional machine
Original languageFrench
Title of host publicationMickhael Tchekov/Michael Chekhov, de Moscou à Hollywood, du Théatre au cinéma
Subtitle of host publicationMichael Chekhov, from Moscow to Hollywood, from the theatre to the cinema
EditorsMarie-Christine Autant-Mathieu
Place of PublicationMontpellier
PublisherL'Entretemps
Pages219-232
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9782912877031
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2009

Publication series

NameLes voies de l'acteur
PublisherEntretemps

Keywords

  • acting, Michael Chekhov, Russian theatre

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