Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training

Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training
ISBN-10
1000077527
ISBN-13
9781000077520
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
258
Language
English
Published
2020-07-17
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson

Description

Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training offers a comprehensive analysis of the Sanford Meisner Acting Technique in comparison to the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. This compilation reveals the connections as well as the contradictions between these two very different approaches, while highlighting meaningful bridges and offering in-depth essays from a variety of sources, including master teachers with years of experience and new and rising stars in the field. The authors provide philosophical arguments on actor training, innovative approaches to methodology, and explorations into integration, as well as practical methods of application for the classroom or rehearsal room, or scaffolded into a curriculum. Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training is an excellent resource for professors teaching Introductory, Intermediate or Advanced Acting Technique as well as acting program directors and department chairs seeking new, impactful research on actor training.

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