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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Chekhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Чехов; 16 August 1891 – 30 September 1955), known as Michael Chekhov, was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. [1]
Michael Chekhov developed an acting technique, a ‘psycho-physical approach’, in which transformation, working with impulse, imagination and inner and outer gesture are central. It offers clear and practical tools in working with imagination, feelings and atmosphere.
Chekhov developed a series of exercises influenced in part by Rudolf Steiner, which explore a psychophysical approach to training and performing. “If the actor is engaged in the process of imagining through the body, then their sense of ‘self’ is forgotten, and the embodied imagination alters the psycho physicality to be or become that of ...
Many of Stanislavski's former students taught acting in the United States, including Richard Boleslavsky, Maria Ouspenskaya, Michael Chekhov, Andrius Jilinsky, Leo Bulgakov, Varvara Bulgakov, Vera Solovyova, and Tamara Daykarhanova. [87] Others—including Stella Adler and Joshua Logan—"grounded careers in brief periods of study" with him. [87]
Mikhail Chekhov may refer to: Michael Chekhov (1891–1955), Russian-American actor, known as Mikhail until the 1930s Mikhail Chekhov (writer) (1865–1936), Russian writer; youngest brother of Anton Chekhov
Platonov (Russian: Платонов, also known as Fatherlessness and A Play Without a Title) [1] is the name in English given to an early, untitled play in four acts written by Anton Chekhov in 1878. It was the first large-scale drama by Chekhov, [1] written specifically for Maria Yermolova, rising star of Maly Theatre. [2]
Mikhail Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Михаил Павлович Чехов; 6 October 1865 in Taganrog – 14 November 1936 in Yalta) was a Russian writer and theater critic; the youngest brother and biographer of Anton Chekhov.
Alexander Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Па́влович Че́хов; August 22, 1855 – May 29, 1913), was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and memoirist, and the eldest brother of Anton Chekhov. Alexander was also the father of famed actor and progressive acting theorist Michael Chekhov.