Constantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky was born in Moscow in 1863.This man is said to have had a more profound result on the development of acting than anyone else in the entire twentieth century.
When Stanislavsky was merely fourteen, he joined a well-known theatrical group which was centrally organized and run by his immediate family and he soon became one of the group's most notorious members.
Throughout the late 1800's, he worked endlessly to develop his style as actor and learn the ropes of other roles in the business such as directing and producing.He soon developed a theory which he felt would revolutionize acting and insisted that if theater was going to be a significant art, it would need to transform beyond the external representation of characters which it had principally remained.
He soon made the decision to dedicate his life to this cause, and in doing so spent over forty years in creating and identifying an approach which became the basis for modern-day psychological and emotional perspectives of acting.
The system which he eventually developed was commonly referred to as the Stanislavsky System, or "the method" to many actors.Its core value urged actors to believe that their primary responsibility as actors was to be actually believed rather than simply recognized or understood.
In order to teach this important value, Stanislavsky taught methods such as emotional memory.For example, to prepare for a role which involved a certain emotion, the actor must remember their own personal experience with such an emotion and thus draw from that experience emotionally in order to accurately represent it on stage.
Stanislavsky also believed that the actor's own personality and emotions were imperative to his or her ability to act.This was a far cry from previous methods of acting that encouraged actors to completely emotionally transform themselves into the character and abandon their own feelings and emotions.
When Stanislavsky was merely fourteen, he joined a well-known theatrical group which was centrally organized and run by his immediate family and he soon became one of the group's most notorious members.
Throughout the late 1800's, he worked endlessly to develop his style as actor and learn the ropes of other roles in the business such as directing and producing.He soon developed a theory which he felt would revolutionize acting and insisted that if theater was going to be a significant art, it would need to transform beyond the external representation of characters which it had principally remained.
He soon made the decision to dedicate his life to this cause, and in doing so spent over forty years in creating and identifying an approach which became the basis for modern-day psychological and emotional perspectives of acting.
The system which he eventually developed was commonly referred to as the Stanislavsky System, or "the method" to many actors.Its core value urged actors to believe that their primary responsibility as actors was to be actually believed rather than simply recognized or understood.
In order to teach this important value, Stanislavsky taught methods such as emotional memory.For example, to prepare for a role which involved a certain emotion, the actor must remember their own personal experience with such an emotion and thus draw from that experience emotionally in order to accurately represent it on stage.
Stanislavsky also believed that the actor's own personality and emotions were imperative to his or her ability to act.This was a far cry from previous methods of acting that encouraged actors to completely emotionally transform themselves into the character and abandon their own feelings and emotions.
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