Meyerhold’s Biomechanics: a workshop by Alexey Levinsky I
Video
This video captures a typical progression in Levinsky’s teaching of biomechanics, from work with sticks to footwork, balance and simple twirling skills, culminating in a demonstration of solo études.
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1990s
- Aberystwyth
- Acting Workshops
- Active Culture
- Actor Training
- Biomechanics
- Body Training
- Cardiff
- Constructivist Theatre
- Drama Therapy
- Dramatherapy
- Interview
- Invisible Theatre
- Jerzy Grotowski
- Masterclass
- Melodrama
- Pantomime
- Paratheatre
- Peter Hulton
- Political Theatre
- Ritual
- Soviet Theatre Training
- Vsevolod Meyerhold
- Wales
- Workshop
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Commentary
by Jonathan Pitches
Jonathan Pitches discusses the significance of Levinsky’s workshop, demonstration, and subsequent conference presentation on biomechanical études, ‘a pivotal moment in the … transmission of biomechanics into the British tradition’.
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One of only a handful of active practitioners in the world who were trained by Meyerhold’s collaborator Kustov, Alexey Levinsky is an expert practitioner working in Moscow as a teacher and director.
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Vsevolod Meyerhold is remembered predominantly for his courageous personal fight for innovation, his radically stylised theatre productions, and his invention of biomechanics for performer training.