Nikolai Demidov

Becoming an Actor-Creator
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-73700-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 832 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1451 g

At the time of his death, Stanislavsky considered Nikolai Demidov to be ‘his only student, who understands the System’. Demidov’s incredibly forward-thinking processes not only continued his teacher’s pioneering work, but also solved the problems of an actor’s creativity that Stanislavsky never conquered.

Despite being one of the original teachers of the Stanislavski system, Demidov’s name was little known either in his native Russia or the wider world until the turn of the 21st Century. Since then, his extensive works have been published in Russian but are yet to find their way to the English-speaking world. His sophisticated psychological techniques, stimulation of creativity, and methods of developing the actors themselves are now gaining increasing recognition.This book brings together Demidov’s five volumes on actor training. Supplementary materials, including transcriptions of Demidov’s classes, and notes and correspondence from the author make this the definitive collection on one of Russian theatre’s most important figures.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Demidov, Nikolai

Malaev-Babel, Andrei

Laskina, Margarita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Schauspieltechnik, Theaterpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

NIKOLAI DEMIDOV - A CREATIVE BIOGRAPHY (From the Editors) BOOK ONE: THE ART OF THE ACTOR - ITS PRESENT AND FUTURE, BOOK TWO: ACTOR TYPES, BOOK THREE: THE ART OF LIVING ONSTAGE, Part One: The Significance Of The Actor's Creative Experiencing. Part Two: The Path Of Spontaneous Reaction, Part Three: Some Basic Principles And Techniques, Part Four: Guiding Freedom And Involuntariness, Part Five: Conclusion, BOOK FOUR: THE ARTIST'S CREATIVE PROCESS ONSTAGE, BOOK FIVE: PSYCHO-TECHNIQUE OF THE AFFECTIVE ACTOR

Über Autor(innen)

Nikolai Demidov (1884-1953) began his career as a practising psychiatrist and athletic trainer, before becoming assistant to Konstantin Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre. He went on to be co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre School, and one of the original teachers of Stanislavski's system. Following his mentor's death, Demidov's radical, innovative approaches saw him ostracised from Moscow and his role in Russian actor training largely wiped from the history books. The efforts of his celebrated pupils - including Maria Knebel, Boris Livanov and Margarita Laskina - have seen his work gradually return to recognition following the demise of the Soviet Union.

Andrei Malaev-Babel is an actor, director and scholar, a graduate of the Vakhtangov Theatre Institute in Moscow. He serves as an Associate Professor of Theatre at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, and on the board of the Michael Chekhov Association. He is the editor of The Vakhtangov Sourcebook and author of Yevgeny Vakhtangov: A critical portrait.