Acting Ideas and Philosiphies from Michael Chekhov
Michael Chekhov's famous techniques are being widely used until today. His main idea was not to immitate performances but to interpretate and understand it. First of all, actors should be trained to know how to change and open their inner life of the specific character he or she is acting, also having an imaginary center in the actor's mind in order to act differently for assorted characters. Second of all, the actor should enter psychologically into the character he or she is acting. This technique could be trained by observing and figuring out why the character acts in the certain way, asking why is the character reacting in a way like this. Third of all, a technique that Michael Chekhov mentioned was to have a imagination of the character the actor will be acting. Ask or pretend to be the character in your imagination, what will you do if you are facing this situation, what will your reaction be as the character. Another very important element towards acting, is the atmosphere. Michaed Chekhov said that it is important to let the atmosphere and the sensation combine during acting. Atmospheres like happinness, sadness or madness should be imagines and set up when the actor is acting, a specific way to accomplish this technique is to imagine the atmosphere "in the air". Last but not least, the gestures. An actor should start of thinking how the character will be reacting and wanting, next on, to start of with a smaller gestures then untill it spreads through the actor's whole body. Make it nature and simple but withouth loosing any decisive movements to state the character's feelings within the scene. Over all, Michael Chekhov believes more on the actors' instinct and imagination. He also encourages practicing improvise acting in order to be more open and free as an actor.
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A Short video I found from Michael Chekhov Studio in London
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