Master classes in the Michael Chekhov technique [videorecording] / produced by MICHA, the Michael Chekhov Association.
Contributor(s): Merlin, Joanna
| Freidank, Ragnar | Michael Chekhov Association | Routledge (Firm).
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Visual materialPublisher: Oxford : Routledge, c2007Description: 3 videodiscs (390 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user guide (41 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.).ISBN: 9780415422581; 0415422582.Subject(s): Chekhov, Michael, 1891-1955 | Acting -- Study and teaching | Method actingDDC classification: 792.028 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 792.028 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00150243 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A set of three DVDs professionally produced to a high broadcast quality presents an unprecedented level of access to the practice of the Chekhov technique. This collection provides six hours of filmed workshops by world-renowned Chekhov experts demonstrating his approach to actor-training, including:
exercises in body awareness 'the four brothers' - Ease, Form, Beauty, and sense of the whole qualities of movement - molding, floating, flying and radiating psychological gestures imagining a different physical body of a character.The DVD's bring to life all the essential elements of the Michael Chekhov technique in a way which is clear, engaging, practical and dynamic. It is a unique and essential training tool for all teachers, students, actors and directors and a copy should be in every library in every institution.
Produced by the Michael Chekhov Association, the classes feature many of the world's leading practitioners and teachers of the Michael Chekhov Technique, including teachers Ragnar Freidank, Joanna Merlin, Lenard Petit, Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan with actors Dawn Arnold, Bethany Caputo, Jessica Cerullo, John Capalbo, Anne Gottleib, Hugh O'Gorman and Mel Shrawder. The classes are followed by a panel discussion with Jack Colvin, Joanna Merlin and Mala Powers.
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Disc 1. Teacher conversation -- Waking up the instrument -- Feeling of ease, form, beauty, sense of the whole -- Expanding, contracting -- Qualities of movement I -- Qualities of movement II -- Disc 2. Radiating and receiving -- Psychological gesture -- Imaginary gesture -- Remembering Michael Chekhov -- Disc 3. Sensations (falling, floating and balancing) -- Imaginary body -- Atmosphere -- Ghost exercise -- Actor conversation -- Credits --
Producer, Joanna Merlin; artistic directors, Ragnar Freidank, Joanna Merlin; photography director, Edward Marritz; editor, Bob Jorissen.
Teachers: Ragnar Freidank, Joanna Merlin, Lenard Petit, Ted Pugh, Fern Sloan. Actors: Dawn Arnold, John Capalbo, Bethany Caputo, Jessica Cerullo, Anne Gottlieb, Hugh O'Gorman, Mel Shrawder.
Michael Chekhov was a teacher and innovator in the art of acting. A student of the famed Stanislavsky and a nephew of author Anton Chekhov, Michael Chekhov developed a psycho-physical technique using an actor's movement and gesture to show the psychological mindset of a character.
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Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Disc 1 Teacher Conversation
- 1 Waking up the Instrument
- 2 Feeling of Ease, Form, Beauty, Sense of the Whole
- 3 Expanding, Contracting
- 4 Qualities of Movement I
- 5 Qualities of Movement II
- Disc 2
- 6 Radiating and Receiving
- 7 Psychological Gesture
- 8 Imaginary Centers Remembering
- Disc 3
- 9 Sensations (Falling, Flaoting and Balancing)
- 10 Imaginary Body
- 11 Atmosphere
- 12 Ghost Exercise Actor Conversation Credits
- BOOKLET Foreword: From the Desk of Zelda Fichandler
- Introduction: In the Room with Michael Chekhov
- Joanna Merlin Outline of Classes Michael Chekhov: A Short Biography Bibliography of books by and about Michael Chekhov Teachers'
- Biographies Actors' Biographies Comments about the DVDs