| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 507 pages) : illustrations. |
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Routledge theatre and performance companions |
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Routledge theatre and performance companions.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Vsevolod Meyerhold and cinema / Anna Kovalova -- Meyerhold, the musician / Nathan Thomas -- Meyerhold in the 1930s : language, text, performance / Anna Muza -- Meyerhold's Hamlet : an unrealised dream / Michelle Assay -- Looking at Meyerhold's unseen theatre / Amy Skinner -- Performing communism, or, What if we took Meyerhold's politics seriously? / Teemu Paavolainen -- Meyerhold and Stanislavsky : forty years of cordial disagreement / Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu -- An unknown legacy : uncovering traces of Savva Mamontov's work in Meyerhold's conditional theatre / Donatella Gavrilovich -- Meyerhold's female collaborators / Stefan Aquilina -- The influence of Giovanni Grasso on Meyerhold's works, theories, and biography / Gabriele Sofia -- Toward conscious and independent action : Pyotr Lesgaft's system of physical education as inspiration for Meyerhold's biomechanics / Małgorzata Jabłońska -- Meyerhold and Trotsky / Robert Leach -- The commedia dell'arte origins of biomechanics : actor training and collective creation at the Borodinskaia Street Studio / Dassia N. Posner -- The Borodinskaia Street Studio : documents on actor training and collective creation / translated and edited by Dassia N. Posner -- Fragments of a creative life : introduction to five new sources / Stefan Aquilina -- Letters to Anton Chekhov, 1899-1904 -- Comments by Doctor Dapertutto on 'The Denial of Theatre' by Yury Aikhenvald, 1914 -- Theatre pamphlets I : on dramaturgy and theatre culture, 1921 -- From Meyerhold's speech at the discussion 'Creative methods at the Meyerhold Theatre', 1930 -- On the spatial composition of performance, 1936 -- A theatre company as a Meyerholdian experiment in grotesque / Paul Stebbings and Phil Smith -- The evolution of Proper Job : working with Meyerhold in contemporary British theatre / James Beale, Franc Chamberlain, and Chloe Whitehead -- Biomechanical diasporas : practitioner perspectives on the transmission of Meyerhold's techniques / Marcelo Bulgarelli, Terence Mann (Chapman), Claudio Massimo Paternò, Robert Reid -- Transmission impossible / Ralf Räuker -- Decoding the riddle : applying Meyerhold's conception of the director's explication / Bryan Brown and Olya Petrakova -- Meyerhold's influence on twentieth-century Japanese theatre / Min Tian -- Nesting dolls : sketches in search of Meyerhold in Australia / Chris Hay and Ian Maxwell -- An unexpected triangle : Politis, Meyerhold, and Karaghiozis in interwar Greece / Antonis Glytzouris -- Biomechanical resonances in Turkey : the working method of Studio Oyuncuları / Burç İdem Dinçel -- Meyerhold's influence on the production processes of Peforma Teatro (Brazil) / Arlete Cavaliere -- Meyerhold in the 21st century : the meeting points of biomechanics and postdramatic performance / Diana Monteiro Toombs -- The new Meyerhold theatre : visualizing a lost architectural experiment / Rachel Hann -- Theatrical biomechanics and movement science / Darren Tunstall -- Biomechanics in lockdown : teaching Meyerhold in the age of Covid-19 / Jonathan Pitches. |
| Summary |
"The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold brings together a wealth of scholarship on one of the foremost innovators in European theatre. It presents a detailed picture of the Russian director's work from when it first emerged on the modern stage to its multifarious present-day manifestations. By combining an historical focus with the latest contemporary research from an international range of perspectives and authors, this collection marks an important moment in Meyerhold studies as well as offering a new assessment of his relation to today's theatre-making. Its dynamic blend of research is presented in five sections: Histories enlarges on more conventional subjects like the grotesque and biomechanics, to overlooked topics such as Meyerhold's 'failed' projects and his work in film; Collaborations and Connections extends understandings of Meyerhold's well-known collaborative capacities to consider new cultural influences and lesser known working relationships; Sources engages with hitherto untapped material in Meyerhold's oeuvre by reproducing and contextualising previously untranslated primary sources on his work; Practitioner Voices radically extends geographical understandings of Meyerhold's practice by mapping the routes of migration across continents; Meyerhold in New Contexts examines ways in which Meyerhold's work is being applied in a number of contemporary scenarios, such as motion capture, computer-based 3D visualizations and the 'new normal' of digital pedagogy. This is a key resource for students and scholars of European Theatre, acting theory and actor training, as well as for those more broadly interested in the socio-political impact of theatre"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Jonathan Pitches is Professor of Theatre and Performance and Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds. He specialises in performer training, ecocriticism, and blended learning. He is founding co-editor of the journal of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. Stefan Aquilina is a Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Malta and Co-Director of the Stanislavsky Research Centre. He has published extensively on modern theatre (especially Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, and amateur theatre), the transmission of embodied practice, and interdisciplinary performance. |
| Subject |
Meĭerkholʹd, V. Ė. (Vsevolod Ėmilʹevich), 1874-1940 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Meĭerkholʹd, V. Ė. (Vsevolod Ėmilʹevich), 1874-1940 |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Pitches, Jonathan, 1968- editor.
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Aquilina, Stefan, editor.
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| Added Title |
Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Routledge companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9780367627843 (DLC) 2022018367 |
| ISBN |
9781003110804 electronic book |
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1003110800 electronic book |
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9781000764567 electronic book |
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1000764567 electronic book |
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9781000764499 electronic book |
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1000764494 electronic book |
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hardcover |
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paperback |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9781003110804 doi |
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