‘Here, Today, Now: Stanislavsky for the 21st Century Actor’: A Practical Presentation
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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.
- 1960s
- 2010s
- 21st century
- Acting
- Active Analysis
- Actor Training
- Chay Yew
- Erwin Piscator
- Federico Garcia Lorca
- Futurism
- Intermedial Performance
- John Gillett
- Konstantin Stanislavski
- Laurie Anderson
- Live Internet Performance
- Liveness
- Multimedia Theatre & Performance
- Orlan
- Practical Lecture
- Psychophysical Acting
- Realism
- Rose Bruford College
- Stelarc
- Symbolism
- University of California Davis
- William Shakespeare
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