Meyerhold’s Biomechanics: a workshop by Alexey Levinsky II
Video
Levinsky explains his relationship to his teacher, then moves onto a workshop demonstration of stick work, balance and footwork, and his particular skill as a manipulator of sticks.
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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.