Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov

<p>The Routledge Companion to Michael Chekhov brings together Chekhov specialists from around the world - theatre practitioners, theorists, historians and archivists – to provide an astonishingly comprehensive assessment of his life, work and legacy. </p><p>This volume aims to connect East and West; theatre theory and practice. It reconsiders the history of Chekhov’s acting method, directing and pedagogy, using the archival documents found across the globe: in Russia, England, America, Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland. It presents Chekhov’s legacy and ideas in the framework of interdisciplinary theatre practices and theories, as well as at the crossroads of cultures, in the context of his forays into such areas as Western mime and Asian cosmology. </p><p>This remarkable Companion, thoughtfully edited by two leading Chekhov scholars, will prove invaluable to students and scholars of theatre, theatre practitioners and theoreticians, and specialists in Slavic and transcultural studies.</p><p>Marie-Christine Autant-Mathieu is Director of Research at the National Center For Scientific Research, and Assistant-Director of Sorbonne-CNRS Institute EUR’ORBEM. She is an historian of theatre and specialist in Russian and Soviet theatre.<br><br>Yana Meerzon is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre, University of Ottawa. Her book publications include <i>Adapting Chekhov: The Text and Its Mutations</i>, co-edited with Professor J. Douglas Clayton, University of Ottawa (Routlegde, 2012).</p> <p>Introduction: <b>Michael Chekhov - Actor, Director, Pedagogue</b> </p><p>MARIE-CHRISTINE Autant-Mathieu and YANA MEERZON</p><p>PART I</p><p>Michael Chekhov in context: theory, practice, pedagogy</p><p>1 <b>Michael Chekhov’s Work as Director </b></p><p>LIISA BYCKLING</p><p>2 <b>The Theatrical System of Michael Chekhov</b></p><p>ANDREI KIRILLOV</p><p>3 Georgette Boner and Michael Chekhov. Collaboration(s) and Dialogue(s) in Search of a Method</p><p>CRISTA MITTELSTEINER</p><p>4 Meditation and Imagination. The contribution of anthroposophy to Michael Chekhov’s acting technique</p><p>MONICA CRISTINI</p><p>5 Michael Chekhov and the Cult of the Studio</p><p>MARIE-CHRISTINE AUTANT-MATHIEU </p><p>6 The Dynamics of Psychological Gestures</p><p>JOHN LUTTERBIE</p><p>7 Chekhov’s Notion of Radiating: From conception to concrete </p><p>Andrew R. White</p><p>8 Staging the Spectator in Michael Chekhov’s Acting Theory</p><p>YANA MEERZON</p><p>PART II</p><p>Michael Chekhov on stage: collaborations and encounters</p><p>9 Brief Encounters: Michael Chekhov and Shakespeare</p><p>LaUrence Senelick</p><p>10 Michael Chekhov, Homo Ludens</p><p>MARIA IGNATIEVA</p><p>11 Michael Chekhov and Yevgeny Vakhtangov</p><p>A Creative Dialogue</p><p>ANDREI MALAEV-BABEL</p><p>12 Michael Chekhov’s Legacy in Soviet Russia</p><p>A Story about Coming Home</p><p>SHARON MARIE CARNICKE</p><p>13 Michael Chekhov in England</p><p>Outside the Magic Circle</p><p>FRANC CHAMBERLAIN</p><p>14 Contrasting Modernities</p><p>The Rural and the Urban in Michael Chekhov’s Psychological Gesture and Meyerhold’s Biomechanical Études</p><p>JONATHAN PITCHES</p><p>15 "Prying Behind the Curtain(s) of the Creative Process"</p><p>Eugenio Barba’s Principles and Michael Chekhov’s Technique</p><p>IAN WATSON</p><p>PART III: </p><p>Michael Chekhov’s heritage and interdisciplinary performative practices</p><p>16 Michael Chekhov and the Visual Arts</p><p>Influences, Synergies, Collaborations</p><p>Julia Listengarten</p><p>17 Russian Delsartism and Michael Chekhov</p><p>The Search for the Eternal Type</p><p>Rose Whyman </p><p>18 "As the Shadow Follows the Body" </p><p>Examining Chekhov’s Creation of Character through "Eastern" Practices</p><p>Jerri Daboo </p><p>19 Cycles of Creation</p><p>Michael Chekhov and the <i>Yinyang Wuxing</i> Cosmology</p><p>DANIEL MROZ </p><p>20 Michael Chekhov in German Film</p><p>Oksana Bulgakowa</p><p>21 Michael Chekhov the Hollywood Actor</p><p>Jacqueline Nacache</p><p>PART IV</p><p>Michael Chekhov’s theatre system and acting pedagogy today</p><p>22 Chekhov’s Lithuanian Lessons</p><p>Gytis Padegimas</p><p>23 Developing the Imagination: Michael Chekhov in Actor Training</p><p>Lionel Walsh </p><p>24 Michael Chekhov’s Five Guiding Principles and Theatre Practice Today: The Case of "Tender Napalm" by Phillip Ridley</p><p>Cynthia Ashperger </p><p>25 The Legacy of Michael Chekhov: Then and Now</p><p>Joanna Merlin</p>