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    Chapter 2 Robert Leach MEYERHOLD AND BIOMECHANICS “ialning! Tainng!Teining! Bur if e's the lind of wating which exercises only the body and mot che mind, chen No, thank you! have ae for store ws now how to move but esanot think” "[itxoucnour mis cansin, ystvoLop Meecold sought to ain the brains and bovtes oF actors so chat they would be abe to participate Ia his liflong quest fora theste which would noe attempt to mprocuce the surfer reality ofliving, but would be,zater, ‘teat’. Ye largely becatseofacldents of history, ‘which cruelly llenced him and forwitoudly aded the ideas of his mentor, college sn ideological vival, Konstan Stanisasky, the significance of hi quests, een in the rweny-fse century, rately recognised of acknowledged, His contemporaries believed that he was Stanisavsy's equal, and that this was aa tru fr hls ideas about actor taining as about stage production, Ics probably fair to sy that virtually all tore echolars,especally Wester scholirs, who have iscused his work since his “rehabilitation” in 1955, have underestimated te imporiance of his pedagogy. But any of his ideas were preserved dhrgugh diak times by his pup, and his pupils pupils. who are now promulgating them energeielly, nd the tne hat petaps ‘omne fora new assessman: of Meyerhold's work on taining stos Meyethold's own troupe, the Comrades of the New Drama, was funded in September 1902 when Meyerhold was twenty-eight yeas old. His experimental and [pedagogical practices developed alongside his malusteam production werk, aoably ‘hough bis work with Sanislvsky's Theatre Sttio.on Porarskaye Stet, Moseow in 1905, die from 1906 until 1908 at Vera Komiserahevskya's Drimatie Theat in Sx Feeding, and in his cv Studio on Borodinskaya Stet, St Petersbarg Benen 1913 and 1917, After the Bolshevik Revolution he developed a course on stage production in Petrograd (which, however, seems never to have Opetaed meaning folly): the, in 1921 dhe Meyerhold Free Workshop was extablished in Moscow, and this was absorbed imo the MeyerholdTheste wien that becstne a reality in 1923 rom then until i liquidation in 1938, the Meyerhold Theste school tralned setors ‘conscientiously and in iglfcane numbers WEVERWOLO AND SICMECHANICS 27 eyerhold eared passionately shout his pupils. Hast Garin, one of his star graduates, printed an unforgeeabe perare ofthe Maser oversesing his students He would appear inthe doorway with 2 green miliary greatoat ung Carclessly over his shoulders... The gesdlo was never Properly heated, but we were young, and invelved in energetic exerists, so we didn’t ‘mid, Meyerhold st by the round, tied stove, smoking -..and watching 7 ‘usa#ifhe was sudying each one of us! Meyerhoi’s own acting career began a8 ¢ founder member of the Moscow Art Thar A ht tne, Sansa fad not even Geveope hi rund te tle jpethod of anlsing txt, though he sossence that every age atin ust be Foviied, or mocvated and tht each character mast have 2m ‘bjecave’ was already presen i hie work method Meyerhold aways held wo here prin, even at he Encrgetallyscected the Moscow Are Thea’ sare for ¢ liek naturalism “The turn of the cemury was the period when Symbols domiagted avenlguc Iitrane and art especally in Russa, and Meyerbold sought a oyised means of soging thé works of Symbol dramas: In 1906, however ie production of ‘Neander Blok’s Te Faroend ach completly destroyed stg Symbolism. In che Play. dreamy mystics and saey-

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