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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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