Vsevolod meyerhold biomechanics
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Biomechanics (Meyerhold)
Biomechanics was a system of actor training developed by Vsevolod Meyerhold. Its purpose was to widen the emotional potential of a theater piece and express thoughts and ideas that could not be easily presented through the naturalistic theater of the period.
The techniques of biomechanics were developed during the rehearsals of a series of plays directed by Meyerhold in the s and s when Socialist Realism was at its height in Russia. Biomechanics is a precursor to and influence on much of the 20th century's physical theatre.
Despite a lack of scenery in many of Meyerhold's plays, “if the actor remains on the bare stage, the greatness of the theater stays with him”.[1] In a similar vein, Markov claims that the constructivists saw the stage “merely as a platform for showing off the external technique of the actor”.[2] This facilitated Meyerhold's use of biomechanics, an acting system which relied on motion rather than language or il