Constantin Stanislavski

Constantin Sergueïevitch Stanislavski (in Russian КонстантинСергеевичСтаниславский/Алексéев), born Alexeïev the January 5th 1863 with Moscow and dead the August 7th 1938, is an actor, director and professor of Russian dramatic art.

It is one of the creators, with Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, of the Théâtre of Art of Moscow and he is the author of the Training of the actor . When he dies in 1938, its teaching upset all Europe, and since, its system marked forever the art of the actor and the director.

Constantin Stanislavski was a man eminently committed in his Article Benefitting from the assistance of generous patrons, he could develop his art during decades. Stanislavski developed its system play in order to fulfill the requirements naturalist of authors such as Anton Tchekhov and Maxime Gorki. However, Stanislavski was undoubtedly inspired by actors with the very traditional play. Stella Adler, which was the only professor of American dramatic art to have worked with him, regarded it as a man of tradition inspired in particular by the Commedia dell' arte. It is besides one of the points of disagreement between the actors of Stanislavski tradition and the heirs to Lee Strasberg. Indeed, the Russian actors often reproach the American actors for lowering the character to their level, diluting the poetic and epic range of this one in the banality of their daily newspaper. The actors heirs to Stanislavski estimate that it is duty of the actor to rise on the level of its character. “He is not authentic actor who does not have, one day or the other, borrowed knowingly or not, some-a of the paths of this analysis, which Constantin Stanislavski thoroughly describes in his book” (Jean Vilar).

Extract of the introduction of training of the actor by Jean Vilar:

This book, this Large Book, is a total reconsideration of the actor .

anxious Expert, severe moralist, Torlsov-Stanislavski strips here, one after the other, the interpreter of its vanities. It dévêt of its foils. It analyzes without pity its false prestige. It absolutely destroys the base and its cousin, the showing off. By doing this, it offers to the actor a daily method of work, only certainly which, since always is effective .

Actors Studio, inspired by Stanislavski

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