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Stanislavski, Konstantin

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With his insights into acting and directing, Konstantin Stanislavski forged a definitive position in the development of 20th-century theatre, laying the groundwork for innovators such as Grotowski.


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In which Prof. Smeliansky outlines the importance of Stanislavsky’s work in the history of Russian theatre, including Stanislavsky’s relation to Chekhov, Gordon Craig, Meyerhold and others.
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This interview sees Jean Benedetti discussing some of the main precepts of Stanislavsky’s work, including Stanislavsky’s relation to Chekhov, Shchepkin, Meyerhold and others.
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Konstantin Stanislavski. After My Life in Art, Part 3: The Return
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The third episode of After My Life in Art, originally broadcast by The Culture Channel, Russia
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Konstantin Stanislavski. After My Life in Art, Part 4: The System
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The fourth episode of After My Life in Art, originally broadcast by The Culture Channel, Russia
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The fifth episode of After My Life in Art, originally broadcast by The Culture Channel, Russia
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Stan Asset
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This film tells a story from anticipation to realisation. We see students explore and experience Stanislavsky’s system, which allows you, the viewer, a front row seat in seeing how acting works.
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The Stanislavski Centre Annual Lecture sees a major international figure lecturing based upon their own expertise in the field of Stanislavsky studies every year – in this case, Anatoly Smeliansky.
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Stanislavsky and The Russian Theatre
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This film explores the main themes which led to the founding of The Moscow Art Theatre and the formation of Stanislavsky’s system of acting.
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Bella Merlin’s practical presentation uses Stanislavsky’s Six Fundamental Questions to contextualise a demonstration of ‘practice as research’ riffing off his work, as well as Maria Knebel’s.
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Actor, director, teacher, author of six books and pioneer of ‘Active Analysis’, Maria Osipovna Knebel is arguably the most influential figure in 20th-century Russian theatre, after Stanislavski.
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Bella Merlin is an actor, writer (of books and music) and Professor of Acting at the University of California, Davis. Her work combines acting processes, theatre history and practice-as-research.
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The text is the actor’s starting and end point when creating a character, requiring a certain forensic analysis to transform the page into flesh-and-blood character. This process is often intuitive.
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Theatre History aims to enlarge our understanding of theatre: the people, events and relationships involved in its development, the causes of change, and the ideas behind new forms of performance.


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