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Master classes in the Michael Chekhov technique

Title
Master classes in the Michael Chekhov technique [videorecording] / The Michael Chekhov Association presents ; producer, Joanna Merlin ; [video prod. company] Routledge.
Publication
[S.l.] : Routledge, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Merlin, Joanna
  • Freidank, Ragnar
  • Marritz, Edward
  • Petit, Lenard
  • Pugh, Ted, 1937-
  • Sloan, Fern
  • Arnold, Dawn
  • Capalbo, John
  • Caputo, Bethany
  • Cerullo, Jessica
  • Gottlieb, Anne
  • O'Gorman, Hugh
  • Shrawder, Mel
  • Michael Chekhov Association
  • Routledge (Firm)
Description
3 videodiscs (DVD) (390 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Consists of twelve acting workshops in the Michael Chekhov technique, including skills such as waking up the body, radiating and receiving, and the Psychological Gesture.
Subjects
Credits (note)
  • Artistic directors, Ragnar Freidank, Joanna Merlin; photography director, Edward Marritz.
Performer (note)
  • Actors: Dawn Arnold, John Capalbo, Bethany Caputo, Jessica Cerullo, Anne Gottlieb, Hugh O'Gorman, Mel Shrawder.
Biography (note)
  • 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.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
Contents
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 --
Call Number
NCOX 2495
ISBN
  • 9780415422581
  • 0415422582
OCLC
135219692
Title
Master classes in the Michael Chekhov technique [videorecording] / The Michael Chekhov Association presents ; producer, Joanna Merlin ; [video prod. company] Routledge.
Imprint
[S.l.] : Routledge, c2007.
Credits
Artistic directors, Ragnar Freidank, Joanna Merlin; photography director, Edward Marritz.
Performer
Teachers: Ragnar Freidank, Joanna Merlin, Lenard Petit, Ted Pugh, Fern Sloan.
Cast
Actors: Dawn Arnold, John Capalbo, Bethany Caputo, Jessica Cerullo, Anne Gottlieb, Hugh O'Gorman, Mel Shrawder.
Biography
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.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.
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Added Author
Michael Chekhov Association.
Merlin, Joanna, producer.
Freidank, Ragnar, teacher.
Marritz, Edward, director of photography.
Merlin, Joanna, teacher.
Petit, Lenard, teacher.
Pugh, Ted, 1937- teacher.
Sloan, Fern, teacher.
Arnold, Dawn, actor.
Capalbo, John, actor.
Caputo, Bethany, actor.
Cerullo, Jessica, actor.
Gottlieb, Anne, actor.
O'Gorman, Hugh, actor.
Shrawder, Mel, actor.
Routledge (Firm)
Research Call Number
NCOX 2495
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