1st Edition
Physical Actor Training What Shall I Do with the Body They Gave Me?
Several words about Andrey Droznin and his book
Preface
Introduction
Actor’s External Technique
Actor’s External Technique (cont.)
Actor’s External Technique (end)
Body as a Material Medium of Acting
Desomatisation (Loss of Functions)
Desomatisation (Self-destruction)
Body and Soul (in Life)
Body and Soul (in Art)
Stanislavski
Meyerhold
The Problem (between Stanislavski and Meyerhold)
Vakhtangov
The Others (Time to Search)
After The Titans (Time to Lose)
Drama School in the Age of Pluralism
Physical Universalism
Phobia of the Physical
Phobia of the Physical (cont.)
On Actor’s External Technique Again (dropout of the external technique)
Actor Physical Training (Time to Gather)
Instead of an Epilogue
Biography
One of the most famous movement coaches in Russia, Droznin was among the founding members of the Tabakov Studio in Moscow and the Stanislavsky Summer School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.In addition to serving as Professor of Stage Movement at the MXAT School and the Vakhtangov Theatre Institute in Moscow, Mr. Droznin has taught in the Institute of Advanced Theater Training at the American Repertory Theatre in Harvard and Carnegie-Mellon University(USA) and directed movement in more than 140 theatre productions and movies in the former Soviet Union and abroad.
Natalia Fedorova was Andrey Droznin’s graduate student and long-term assistant. They have taught together in the Vakhtangov Theatre Institute, the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia and in Stanislavsky Summer School in the USA. Natalia currently teaches Droznin’s method of stage movement in the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Rose Bruford College in London.
