ACTING CLASS

Students will concentrate their work in the following areas:

• special breathing technique;
• relaxation exercises and basics of meditation;
• stage awareness;
• imagination and boldness on stage;
• emotional memory and emotional awareness;
• partner and stage interaction;
• stage improvisation;
• creative games and stage freedom;
• basics of psychoanalysis and text analysis.

SCENE STUDY

Students will be working on some of the following plays and stories: 

Anton Chekhov	Ivanov, The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, The Seagull, Three Sisters, The Bear, Celebration, Marriage, Proposal, The Spouse, The Chorus Girl, The Tripping Tongue, The Hunting Master, The Criminal.
Alexander Ostrovsky	Diary of A Scoundrel, Talents & Admirers, The Storm.
Ivan Turgenev	Month in the Country
Alexander Vampilov	Farewell In June, The Elder Son, The Duck Hunting.

In preparation for the Summer School we recommend that you read:

1. My Life In Art and An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavsky.
2. Technique of Acting by Michael Chekhov.
   
3. Articles by Evgeny Vakhtangov and Vasily Toporkov in Actors on Acting.

MOVEMENT 

The stage movement class of Andrei Droznin is based on the tradition of Russian psychological theatre (Stanislavsky and Evgeni Vakhtangov), incorporating the crucial discoveries of Russian avant-garde directors of the 20th Century (biomechanics of Vsevolod Meyerhold, elastic training of Alexander Tairoff, "emphasized space" of Les Kurbas, etc.) The program will also include elements of stage, circus and trick acrobatics; locomotor skills - walking, jogging, jumping, hurdling, falls; stage combat and slow motion technique.

DRAMA HISTORY

1. The following are the main topics of lectures and seminars:

2. The personality of Stanislavsky in his unpublished diaries and letters.
3. How is the new theatre born.
4. The Stanislavsky System: myth and reality.
5. Stanislavsky in the context of Russian and world theatre (Stanislavsky and Meyerhold, Stanislavsky and Brecht, Stanislavsky and contemporary theatre.)
6. America in the life of the Moscow Art Theatre.
7. Beyond My Life In Art (Stanislavsky after the revolution.)