13THE COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE ORIGINS OF BIOMECHANICSPart 1: Actor Training and Collective Creation at Meyerhold’s Borodinskaia Street Studio
In 1921, Vsevolod Meyerhold opened the State Higher Director’s (later Theatre) Workshops at the site of a former high school on Moscow’s Novinsky Boulevard. According to one of the exuberant incoming students, future director Sergei Iutkevich, Meyerhold announced at the first lesson that they would be studying two subjects: directing and Biomechanics. Iutkevich describes his initial encounter with the latter, ‘an experimental new programme’, which, Meyerhold informed them, they would develop together:
Meyerhold himself showed us the first exercise… . It was ...
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