Biomechanics Rehearsal for "Shadow Mechanics"

Biomechanics rehearsal in Moscow. This is a behind the scenes look at the preparation of the final video "Shadow Mechanics" which is a selection from a larger documentary about Meyerhold, called "Theatre, Meyerhold and the Russian Avant-garde". This piece should be seen as a companion to the film "Shadow Mechanics". For more about this film and the whole series about the Russian avant-garde see http://www.copernicusfilms.com

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Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Biomechanics
• performance
• Meyerhold
• avant-garde
• theatre
• Russia
• Moscow
• art

[Copernicussun]

This film is just additional information to a larger film. Its not an instructional video about "how to do biomechanics". The final film shows the graphic and sculptural quality of Meyerholds theatre to integrate the 3 dimensionality of the actors body with the 2 dimensionality of the set design I'm not sure Meyerhold was interested in the inner states of being of his actors in the same way that say Stanislavsky was for instance.Both were interested in the emotional possibilities of movement.

[greenrate]

This is not especially awful. It's just especially useless.

They're talking about the external movements . . . as if they can just learn to mimic them to some good effect by trial and error.

Instead, the external movements are only important as a reflection of the cultivation of internal states of Being -- which fact this video shows no sign of recognizing.

[whereismikeyfl]

This is so much better than the final "shadow mechanics" film. What is the point of making a pretty shadow show of a technique built on the blood and guts of actual bodies in space. The essence of biomechanics is in the weight shifts of a three-dimentional body in space--what you lose in the shadow version.