Acrobatics 105, 110, 130–133, 135, 184, 216, 233
Actor as emotional and spiritual machine xii, xiv
Adashev, Aleksandr I. 156
Afigenogenov, N. 75
Agit-prop theatre 32
Alekseev 17, 137
Alekseev Circle 13
Alekseev factory 32
Alekseev, Vladimir Sergeevich 20, 129
Alexander II 1
Alexei Suvorin Dramatic School 10, 174
Alienation 215, 235
All-Russian Theatrical Association 72
America, interpretation of Stanislavsky in 252
Anatomy 184, 190
See also physiology
Andreev, Leonid 206, 216
The Life of Man 168
Antarova, Konkordia xv, 135
Anthroposophy 3, 86, 183, 189, 200–201, 237
See also Rudolph Steiner
Higher/lower ego 187
I AM 197
Antoine, André
Théâtre Libre 215
Appia, Adolphe 126
Apukhtin, Aleksei Nikolaevich 207
Aristotle 13, 102
Armenian studio 163–167
Ashanin, A. E. 72
Associationist philosophy 8, 52, 69, 75
Babanova, Maria Ivanovna 206
Bain, Alexander 4, 52, 59, 61, 231, 264
Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich 210, 212, 214
Ballet 110, 125, 133–134, 137
Ballets Russes 133
Behaviourism 88
Bekhterev, Vladimir Mikhailovich 223, 229, 230–231
Bel Canto 139, 141
Belinskii, Vissarion Grigor’evich 2, 13, 14, 26, 31, 35, 259
Bely, Andrei 185, 186
St Petersburg 178
Bernhardt, Sarah 47, 50, 55
Besant, Annie 185
Bezpiatov, Evgenii 10, 61, 92, 254, 264
Binet, Alfred 47, 52, 102
On Double Consciousness 47
Biologism 234
Biomechanics x, 34, 60, 127, 204, 206, 212, 216, 219–237, 253
Posture 233
Refusal, sending, full stop 229
Scientific basis 233–234
Voice 233
Birman, Serafima Germanovna 170, 171
Blavatsky, Helena 86, 185
Blok, Aleksandr 185, 209, 212
The Fairground Booth 170, 213, 216
Bogdanov, Aleksandr Alexandrovich 8, 219
Bogdanov, Gennadi x, 223
Boleslavsky, Richard 67, 175
Bolshevism xiii, 5–7, 33, 123, 163, 205, 220
Bolshoi Opera studio xv, 31, 33, 80, 84, 129, 135, 142, 145, 166, 202, 239
Bolshoi Theatre 114, 135
Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) 84
Boy Scouts 107
Brecht, Bertoldt 75
Alienation effect 215
Briusov, Valerii Iakovlevich 25, 185, 190, 208, 213
‘Unnecessary Truth’ 206–207
Bromley, Nadezhda Nikolaevna 187
Brown, Moses True 123
Buddhism 79, 213
Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanas’evich
Days of the Turbins 34
Molière 36
Callot, Jacques 210
Cannon, Walter 247
Chagall, Marc 170
Chaliapin, Fedor Ivanovich 11, 139, 140, 144
Cheban Aleksandr Ivanovich 163
Chekhov, Alexander Pavlovich 174
Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich 13, 25–27, 30, 101, 173, 205
The Seagull 26–27, 31
Three Sisters 27, 30, 31
Chekhov, Michael ix, x, xii, xiii, xiv, 3, 10, 31, 36, 39, 66, 82, 104, 122, 125, 126, 140, 144, 154, 157, 158, 159, 164–165, 169, 172, 173, 204, 206, 207, 232, 256, 260, 264, 265, 266
Ableukov, role in St Petersburg 179
Adaptation 98
Anthroposophy 3, 86, 174
Anthroposophy and acting 185–188
Archetype 177, 194, 215
Atmospheres 183, 191, 195, 201, 192–208
Attention 182, 192
Caleb Plummer, role in The Cricket on the Hearth 173, 175
Chekhova, Olga 174
Cobe, role in The Wreck of the Good Hope 175, 188–190
Communion 177
Concentration 192
Creative individuality 188
Dual/divided consciousness 195, 198
Emotional memory 196–198
Erik XIVth 170, 185, 194
Fantasy/imagination 182
Feeling of ease 202
Feeling of the truth 190
First studio 174–179
Fraser, role in The Deluge 175, 190, 194
Fribe, role in Festival of Peace 156
Given circumstances 182
Hamlet 177–178, 200, 202, 253
Higher self/ego/I and lower self/ego/I 187–188, 190, 195, 197–198
Imagination 196, 192–208, 215
Imitating the image 161, 198
Improvisation 184
Intellect 183
Justification 182, 202, 217
Khlestakov, role in The Government Inspector 177, 185, 192, 194
Malvolio, role in Twelfth Night 192
Meeting with Stanislavsky in Berlin 179, 195–200
Method of acting 180, 253
Mind, will and feelings 189
Muromsky, role in The Case 179
Objective (task) 195
On science 200–201
‘On the System of Stanislavskii’ 166, 181–183
On ‘truth’ 201–202
‘Other worlds’ 189
The Path of the Actor 179
Petersburg 186
Psychological gesture 193, 229, 237
Radiation 191
Rhythm 183, 193
Rhythmic movement 177
Sense of the whole 183
Skid, role in Artists Watters and Hopkins 199
Sound as gesture 193
Soviet view of
Studio 82, 167, 176, 183, 192
System 174, 203
Transformation 28, 188, 189, 190
Voice 192–193
The Wedding 168
Yoga 186
Chelpanov, Georgii Ivanovich 231
Chernyshevskii, Nikolai Gavrilovich 2, 4, 35, 45
Cimarosa Domenico
The Secret Marriage 135
Circus 209
Civil war 29
Comédie Française 22
Commedia dell’Arte 38, 204, 205, 223, 237, 242
See also Meyerhold
Constructivism xii, 2, 220
Conventionalisation (uslovnost’) 156, 172, 207
Copeau, Jacques 126
Coquelin, Benoit Constant 48, 102, 218–219, 248
Dual personality 218
Representation 218–219
Cotogni, Antonio 19, 139
Craig, Edward Gordon 31, 217
Hamlet 157
Creuzer, Friedrich 3
daily work 122
A Cup of Tea 18
Dalcroze
See Jaques-Dalcroze
Dance 105, 133–134, 135, 137, 216, 223
Darwin, Charles 4, 14, 88, 123, 124, 134, 174, 175, 213, 224, 243, 262, 264
Evolution, theory of 4–5
Origin of Species 5
Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals 5, 59
Daumier, Honoré 170, 211
Declamation 141, 184
Delsarte, François ix, 98, 104, 108, 123, 133, 146, 217, 218, 253
Emotion 126
Justification 126, 217
Laws of Motion 124
‘Semiotics’ 123
Denikin, Anton Ivanovich 32
Deportment 135
Descartes, René 68, 76, 211
Deussen, Paul 3
Dewey, John 259
Diaghilev, Sergei 133
Diderot, Denis 45, 46, 55, 102, 111, 149, 218
Dual consciousness 98, 255
Paradoxe sur le Comédien 45
Dikii, Alexei Denisovich 179, 187
Dohrn, Wolf 127
Dorat, C. J. 47
Dostoevsky, Fedor Mikhailovich 24, 25, 28, 32, 101, 118, 174
Dubois-Reymond, Emil 69
Duchenne, Guillaume 5–7
D’Udine, Jean 229
L’Art et le Geste 127–128, 152
Dukhobors 79, 80
Dumont, Léon 121
Duncan, Isadora 31, 80, 110, 133–134
Duse, Eleanora 84, 205
Duval, M. 112
Efros, Nikolai Efimovich 46
Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich 155, 215, 219, 229, 231, 236
Emancipation of the serfs, 1861 1, 17
Emotion xii, 4, 38, 217, 246, 258, 266
Physiological basis of 4, 61, 264
See also Chekhov, Meyerhold, system
Empiricism
See empirical psychology
Engel, J. J. 124
Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Acting 123
Engels, Frederick 4
Eurhythmics
See Jaques-Dalcroze
Eurhythmy
See Steiner
Evreinov, Nikolai Nikolaievich 154, 209
The Storming of the Winter Palace 154
Exercise and drills 104, 107, 263
Expressive Movement 155
Faddeev, Tikhon Dmitrevich 264
Psychology 9–10, 93, 263
Fechner, Gustav 2, 3, 69
Fedotov, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich 19, 22, 204
Fedotova, Glikeria Nikolaevna 19, 22
Fencing 107, 130, 135, 137
Ferdinandov, Boris Alekseevich 154
Experimental-Heroic Theatre 155
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb 2, 16, 69
Five Year Plans 226
Foregger, Nikolai Mikhailovich 154
Mastfor 154
Theatre of the Four Masks 154
TePhysTrenage 154
Formalism 212, 214, 215, 229, 236
Foucault, Michel 7, 266
Episteme xi
Fournel, Victor 47
Frazer, James 3
Freud, Sigmund 4, 66, 89, 92, 174, 199, 224, 245
Futurism xii, 2, 8, 220
Gaidarov, Vladimir Georgievich 90
Gandhi 78
Garin, Erast Pavlovich 206
Gastev, Alexei K 219, 225–227
How Should Work be Done? 226
Gates, Helmar 87
Giantsintova, Sof’ia Vladimirovna 158, 177
Gilbreth, Frank 224
GITIS Gosudarstvennyi Institut Teatral’novo Iskusstva 205
Glagolin, Boris Sergeevich 174, 188–189
Glasnost’ 205
Gluck, Christoph Willibald
Orpheus 127
Gnesin, Mikhail Fabianovich 216
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 16, 142, 186
Gogol, Nikolai Vasil’evich 2, 13, 16, 19, 22
Dead Souls 162
The Gamblers 19
Golden Age of Russian Literature 2, 37
The Government Inspector 176, 253
Notes on how to act The Government Inspector 100
Goldoni, Carlo
La Locandiera 209
Gorky, Maxim 27, 157, 206, 242
Goya, Francisco 170
Gozzi, Carlo 170, 205
GPU, Gosudarstvennoe Politicheskoe Upravlenie 186
Griboedov, Aleksandr Sergeevich 16, 19
Woe from Wit 113, 226
Gromov, Viktor Alekseevich 155, 193
Grotowski, Jerzy xiii, 9, 22, 217
Gunst, Anatoly 163
Studio 168
Gurevich, Liubov’ Iakovlevna xv, 14, 15, 32, 45, 47, 145, 258
Guts-Muths, Johann Christoph Friedrich 130
Guttman, Oscar
Gymnastics of the Voice 146, 150
Gutzkow, Karl, Uriel Acosta 24
Gymnastics 105, 130–133, 135, 155, 223
Swedish 80, 107, 110, 130
Gzovskaia, Ol’ga Vasil’evna 166
Habimah studio/theatre
See Moscow Art Theatre
Habit xiv, 36, 96, 249
See also second nature, Stanislavsky, William James
Habituation 249
Hall, G. Stanley 123
Hamsun, Knut 25
The Drama of Life 30, 79, 115, 180
Hapgood, Elizabeth Reynolds 75
Hartmann, Edouard von 3, 27, 45, 87, 88–89, 113, 213
Philosophy of the Unconscious 88
Theory of the unconscious 4, 111, 263
Hauptmann, Gerhardt 14, 25, 205, 206, 213
The Assumption of Hannele 24
Schluck and Jau 208
Hegel, Georg 2, 6, 16, 88
Heidegger, Martin 199
Heijermans, Herman
The Wreck of the Good Hope 175
Hellerau 126
Helmholtz, Hermann von 69, 224
Herbart, Johann Friedrich 59, 69
Hill, John 46
Hinduism 3, 80, 82, 175
Hoffding, Harald 3, 231
Hoffman, Ernst Theodor Amadeus (Wilhelm) 211
Hogarth, William 211
Huxley, Thomas 4
Hypnosis 87, 176, 247
Ibsen, Henrik 1, 14, 25, 27, 206, 213
Rosmersholm 162, 163–164
Il’inskii, Igor Vladimirovich 206
Image 159, 161, 214–215
See also Chekhov, Meyerhold, Vakhtangov
Imperial theatres 205
Impressionism 88
Irving, Henry 218
Ivanov. Viacheslav Vsevolodovich 199
Ivanov, Vsevolod Viacheslavovich
The Armoured Train No. 14-69 33, 168
James, William 4, 11, 59, 60–61, 85, 87, 95, 100, 153, 201, 223, 231, 247, 262, 265
Habit 12, 104, 121, 226
Ethical importance 121–122
‘James-Lange’ theory of emotion 59–60, 61–64, 127, 204, 229, 251, 263, 264
Principles of Psychology 59
Stream of consciousness 10
Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals 114
Textbook of Psychology 60, 61, 114, 122–128
Janet, Pierre 52
Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile 104, 123, 126–129, 152, 217, 218, 229
Eurhythmics (Rhythmic Gymnastics) 126, 128, 134, 135
Judic, Anna 84
Kabanov, N. Essays on the Physiology of the Healthy and Unhealthy Human Organism 112
Kabuki 209
Kachalov, Vasilii Ivanovich 32, 65
Kamenskaia, Anna Alekseevna 185
Kamerny Theatre 154
Kandinsky, Wassily 127
Kant, Immanuel 174
Transcendental ego 187
Kataev, Valentin Petrovich 151
Kedrov, Mikhail Nikolaevich 36
Kerzhentsev, Platon Mikhailovich 225–227
Khaliutina, Sof’ia Vasil’evna 58, 157
Knebel’ Maria Osipovna 192, 240
Knight Schools 130
Knipper-Chekhova, Ol’ga Leonardovna 204
Kofler, Leo
Art of Breathing as the Basis of Tone-Production 149–150
Kommisarzhevskaia, Vera Fedorovna 205
Kommisarzhevsky, Fedor Petrovich 21, 22, 68, 139, 143, 166
Korenev, Mikhail Mikhailovich 227
Koroviakov, Dmitri Dmitrievich
Studies in Expressive Reading 149
Kristi, Grigorii Vladimirovich 239
Method of Physical and Verbal Action 241
Kronegk, Ludwig 25
Krylov, Ivan Andreevich 22
Kuhn, Thomas 7, 266
Paradigm xi
Kuleshov, Lev Vladimirovich 125, 155, 229
Kursk studio 155
Kustov, Nikolai Georgievich 223
Ladd, G. T. 61
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste 4
Lancret, Nicholas 211
Lange, Carl 59
Lapshin, Ivan Ivanovich 50, 60–61, 87, 261
Mystic Knowledge and the Universal Feeling 86
The Universal Feeling 86
Le Brun, Charles
Méthode pour apprendre à dessiner les passions 211
Leibniz, Gottfried 88
Lekain (Henri Louis Cain) 47, 102
Lenin, Vladimir Il’ich xiii, 7, 33, 46, 224, 225, 236
Lermontov, Mikhail Iur’evich 19
Leskov, Nikolai Semenovich 187
Levinsky, Alexei x, 223
Lilina (Maria Petrovna Perevoschikova) 22
Ling, Per Henrich 130
Linnaeus, Carolus 124
Liubimovka 17, 18
Lobanova, Yogi Ol’ga 81, 149–150
Locke, John 52
Lopatin, Lev Mikhailovich 93
Lunacharskii, Anatoly Vasil’evich 7, 30, 46, 129, 155, 163, 168, 178
Luzhskii, Vasilii Vasil’evich 65
Machine
Age of xii, 33, 75, 220
and the system 106–111
Ideas of (human body as) xii, 1, 7, 104–153, 227, 238, 261, 263
Maeterlinck, Maurice 14, 25, 190, 206, 213
The Blue Bird 156, 162, 168
The Death of Tintagiles 208
The Miracle of St Anthony 163, 169
Malinovskaia, Elena Konstantinovna 135
Mantegazza, Paulo 124, 264
Physiognomy and Expression 60
Marey, Étienne-Jules 224
Massalitinov, Nikolai Osipovich 65
Massenet, Jules
Werther 135
Materialism 5, 60, 71, 103, 144, 185, 200–201, 243, 244, 245
Marx, Karl 2, 175, 224
Das Kapital 1
Marxism 5, 37, 71
Marxism-Leninism 244
Maudsley, Henry 59, 87, 96, 264
Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich 209, 220
Mystery-Bouffe 216, 220
Mei Lan-fang 215
Meiningen Court Theatre 13, 23, 25, 27, 171
Mendeleev, Dmitri Ivanovich 243
Meyerhold, Vsevolod Emil’evich ix, x, xii, xiii, xiv, 4, 14, 25, 28, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 46, 48, 51, 60, 104, 108, 122, 123, 125, 126, 133, 136, 154, 163, 169, 170, 171–172, 180, 183, 185, 190, 198, 203, 204–237, 248, 256, 260, 264, 266
Action 233
Actor-audience relationship 215–216, 235
Balagan 217
Biomechanics
Walking 113
See also biomechanics
Chronométrage 226
Commedia dell’Arte 209–216
Conventionalised verisimilitude 208
Conventionality (uslovnost’) 212, 229
Dame aux Camellias, Dumas 216
Differences with Stanislavsky 206, 234
Dr Dapertutto 31, 205, 213
Emotion 207, 219, 223, 232, 234
Emploi 214
Experiencing 207, 234
The Fairground Booth 216
Fencing 216
Grotesque 211–212
Image 192–208, 215
Imagination 215
Improvisation 209
Justification 217
Love of Three Oranges 205, 217
Magnanimous Cuckold 220
Mask 214–215
Mirrorising the self 218
Movement/motion 216, 219, 221
Mystery-Bouffe 216
Pierrot, role as 213–214
Raccourci 227
Reflex excitability 221, 230
Reflexes, Reflexology (Pavlov) 7, 228, 229–231
Representation 235
RSFSR Theatre No. 1 220
Signs 212, 229, 234
Soviet view of 38
Sport 216
State Higher Directors’ Workshops 205, 226
Studio on Borodinskaia St 205, 207, 216–218, 219
Stylisation 168, 207, 210
Temperament 208
Theatre in the name of Meyerhold 205
Theatricality 219
Training 216
Unconscious 235
Mill, James 52
Mill, John Stuart 52
Mind-body 9, 247
See also psychological/physiological
Modernism 2, 3, 12, 37, 107, 123, 199, 207, 213
Molière, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin 20
Georges Dandin 23
Tartuffe 36
Moscow Art Theatre xiv, 1, 3, 8, 25–36, 65, 80, 86, 104, 122, 130, 135, 154, 155, 158, 166, 167, 173, 174, 194, 199, 204, 206, 220, 236
Line of Historical- Everyday Life 25
Line of Intuition and Feeling 25
Line of the Fantastic 25
Line of the Socio-political 27
Line of Symbolism-Impressionism 25
Moscow Art Academic Theatre (MAAT) 29
Museum xvi
Round-the-table work 180
School 152
Studios
First studio of Moscow Art Theatre 31, 39, 66, 80, 82, 129, 157–159, 162, 163, 166, 217, 242
(MAAT-2) 174, 177, 178
The Flea 187
Henning Berger’s The Deluge 156, 158
Second studio of Moscow Art Theatre 31, 80, 163, 192
Third studio of Moscow Art Theatre 31, 163, 169, 206, 256
Fourth studio of Moscow Art Theatre 36
Habimah studio/Theatre 130, 163, 167, 169, 170, 180, 191
Tours 33, 143, 177
Moscow Conservatoire 21, 135, 139
Moscow Philharmonic Society acting school 25, 204
Moscow Society of Art and Literature 22, 25
Moscow Theatre School 21
Moskvin, Ivan Mikhailovich 28
Movement/motion 60, 135, 168, 184, 231
See also Meyerhold
Müller, Friedrich Max 3
Muller, J. P.
My System 107
Munt, Ol’ga 204
Muzil, Nikolai Ignat’evich 18
Musina-Ozarovskaia, Daria Mikhailovna 129
Narkompros, The People’s Commissariat of Enlightenment 7, 178, 185, 205
Naturalism 13, 31, 166, 173, 207, 212, 234
Nature, natural science 6, 8
See also Stanislavsky, nature
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vladimir Ivanovich 20, 25, 27, 32, 65, 79, 130, 143, 156, 164, 171, 204
Neurophysiology 247
New Drama 205
New Economic Policy (NEP) 8, 33, 220
Nicholas II 24
Nietzsche, Friedrich 3–4, 123, 175, 186, 213
Nordau, Max 212–214
Novitskaia, Lidiia Pavlovna
Inspiring lessons (Uroki Vdokhnovenii) 136, 151
Old Mathematician or Waiting for a Comet in a District Town, The 18
Opera 19
Opera-Dramatic studio 135
Opera studio-theatre 135
Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nikolaevich 13, 24
Artists and Admirers 18
Don’t Live as You Wish 106
The Dowerless Bride 23
Snow Maiden 25, 55
Ozarovskii, Yurii Erastovich 128, 149
Psychological and physical timbre 145
Voice and Speech 129
Pantomime 223
Paradigm shift 37, 38, 266
Stanislavsky’s paradigm of the human organism 106–107, 113
See also theory of conditioned reflexes, theory of evolution
Paris Conservatoire 22
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich 67–68, 101, 111, 113, 205, 219, 223, 229–231, 239–240, 243, 244, 262, 263, 264
Nobel prize 1904 6, 71, 102
Second signalling system 240–241
Theory of conditioned reflexes xi, xv, 5, 6, 11, 37, 38, 67, 70–73, 103, 156, 204, 248, 259
Reflex of purpose 102
Pavlov, V. Ivanovich 72
Penza Popular Theatre 204
Peter the Great 213
Petrovsky, A. P. 60, 107
Phrenology 90
Physical culture 7, 32, 81, 105, 107, 114, 130, 223
Physiology and anatomy 111–113, 184, 262, 263
Pisarev, Dmitri Ivanovich 4
Pisemskii, Aleksei Feofilaktovich
Bitter Fate 23
Usurpers of the Law 1889 23
Plato 13
Podkopaev, Nikolai Aleksandrovich 72
Politics and science 5–8, 33
Popov, Alexei 159, 164
Prokofiev, Vladimir Nikolaevich 239
Proletkult, Proletarian Cultural Enlightening Organisation 8, 155
Psychological/physiological, spiritual/physical, psychophysical unity 10, 11, 31, 64–65, 72, 74, 104–153, 119, 240, 242, 244, 247, 248–256, 257, 258, 263, 265
Psychology 2, 3, 7, 37, 52, 71, 109, 209, 231, 234, 245, 262
Associationist 4, 38, 39, 45, 67, 263, 264
Empirical 10, 37, 61–62, 201, 262, 264
Experimental 9
Faculty 92
Pudovkin, Vsevolod Illiaronovich 155
Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich 2, 13, 16, 19, 25, 35, 44, 208
Miser Knight 22, 57
Mozart and Salieri 1, 31
Racine, Jean 22
Ramacharaka, Yogi (William Walter Atkinson) 12, 81, 150
Hatha Yoga 79, 81, 91, 161
RAPP Russian Association of Proletarian Writers 8, 34, 75
Razumovskii, Vasilii Ivanovich The Foundations of Physical Development 112
Realism 30
Poetic realism 26, 31
Reflexes, reflex conditioning 157, 179, 199
See Bekhterev, Pavlov, Sechenov, Max
Remond de Sainte-Albine 46
Revolution of 1905 2, 209
Revolution of 1917 xi, 1, 6, 12, 32, 34, 37, 67, 109, 133, 159, 161, 166, 175, 204, 219, 223, 225, 233, 236, 260
Rhythm 155
Rhythmic Gymnastics
See also Jaques-Dalcroze
Ribot, Théodule 4, 23, 51–60, 69, 70, 75, 91–93, 95, 101, 102, 110, 192, 241, 244, 246, 256, 258, 263, 264
‘Affective Memory’ ‘La Memoire Affective’ 52, 53–57
Diseases of the Memory 52, 91–93
Diseases of the Will 52, 94
La Logique des Sentiments 52, 93
L’ Evolution des Idées Generales 53
The Psychology of Attention 52, 82, 92, 96–99
Riccoboni, Luigi 46, 102
Francesco 46
Rittelmeyer, Freidrich 190
Robiezh, S. D. 149
Romanticism 2, 15, 37
Rosicrucianism 185
Rumiantsev, Pavel Ivanovich736 136, 143
Rush, James 146
Russian Musical Society 109
Sabaneev, Leonid Leonidovich
The Music of Speech, Aesthetic Research 145
Safonov, N. M. 129
Salvini, Tommaso 48, 55, 84, 140, 144, 149
Sankovskaia, Ekaterina Aleksandrova 17
Saussure, Ferdinand de 123
Savina, Mariia Gavrilovna 174
Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm von 2, 3, 16, 69, 88
Nature Philosophy 3
Schnitzler, Arthur
Columbine’s Scarf 209
Schopenhauer, Arthur 3, 88, 173, 174, 213, 215
Scientific context for Stanislavsky’s work 2–8
Sechenov, Ivan Mikhailovich 6, 19, 38, 60, 67–70, 90, 95, 102, 112, 113, 240, 244, 250, 263, 264
The Physiology of the Nervous System 68
Reflexes of the Brain 68, 69, 69–70, 101, 232, 264
‘Sensibility’ 47
Serezhnikov, Vasily K. 129, 144
The Music of the Word 145
The Technique of Speech 145
Shakespeare 25
Hamlet at Moscow Art Theatre 39, 65, 177
Othello 24, 238
Twelfth Night at the First studio 163
Shchepkin, Mikhail Semenovich 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 30, 48, 266
Sherrington, Charles 265
Shirokova, N. E.
Deep Breathing and Muscle Strain in Singing 112, 149
Signs, universal language of 123
Silver Age of Russian Art 2, 37, 209, 214
Simonov, Pavel Vasil’evich x, xiv, 67, 243–248
Skinner. B. F. 67
Sladkopevtsev, Vladimir Vladimirovich 174
The Art of Declamation 144
Smolensky, I. L.
A Manual for the study of Declamation 147–148
Smyshlaev, Valentin Sergeevich 176, 183–185
Socialist Realism 2, 8, xiii, 30, 35, 155, 236
Society of Art and Literature 25, 106
Socrates 13
Sokol movement 107
Sokolov, Ippolit 218
Sokolova, Zinaida Sergeevna 36, 137
Sollogub, Fedor L’vovich 22
Solov’ev, Vladimir Sergeevich 175, 210, 216
Solov’ev, Vsevolod 185
Solov’eva, Vera Vasil’evna 159, 173
Sophocles 25
Soviet science
Reflexes 67
Stanislavsky and 238
Spencer, Herbert 4, 59, 87
Spirit in acting xii, 105
Spiritualism 185
Sport 158
Stakhovich, Aleksei Aleksandrovich 65
Stage fighting
Stalin, Joseph xiii, xiii, 1, 33, 34, 35, 70, 204
Stanislavsky, Konstantin Sergeevich ix
Acting ‘in general’ 23, 36
‘Actor’s emotion’ 38
The Actor’s Work on Him/Herself in the Creative Process of Experiencing (AWHE) xv, 36, 38, 105
The Actor’s Work on Him/Herself in the Creative Process of Incarnation (AWHI) xv, 36, 38, 105
Singing and Diction 143
Speech and its Laws 143
‘Staging the Programme’ 136
The Actor’s Work on a Role (AWR) xv, 15, 36, 38–46
Aesthetic theory and naturalism 13–17
An Actor Prepares 252
Art as the communication of ‘feeling’ 15, 36, 49, 91–96, 266
The Art of Experiencing 49
The Art of the Actor and the Director? 196
Building a Character 252
Cain, Byron 168
Collected Works xv
Craft (in acting) 27, 48, 119, 141, 255
A Direction in Art 50
Energy 112, 134
Falseness in acting 119
Fourth wall 215, 235
Higher I 202
Ideological context for work 1–8
Improvisation 242
Iz Zapisnich Knizhek xv
Kernel of the play 100
Library xvi
Mechanical acting 1, 29, 114, 118, 120
The Mikado 168
Mood 26, 31, 88, 202, 207
My Life in Art (MLIA) xv, 17–33, 34
Natural machine 106–111
Naturalism 31, 37
Nature 2–3, 8, 37, 49, 111, 121, 141, 219, 257, 262, 263
Othello role of 141, 143, 149
A Pedagogical Novel xv
Realism 34
Reflexes 67, 73–76, 120, 248
Representation (in acting) 119, 26, 27, 48, 51, 255
Rostanev, role in The Village of Stepanchikovo 24, 32
Salieri, role in Mozart and Salieri 1, 31, 141, 142, 181, 202, 243, 254
Soviet views of x, xiii, 53, 266
Spiritual realism/naturalism 26
Stanislavsky on the Art of the Stage xv
Stencils 24, 36, 45, 48, 51, 99, 118, 141
Stockmann, role in An Enemy of the People 2, 27, 28, 29, 79, 91, 114–115, 178, 180, 214, 249, 254
Truth in acting 31, 188, 201–202
Vershinin, role in The Three Sisters 30
Vocal strain 143
Walking 112
Yoga 37, 3, 12, 30, 39, 45, 78, 78–85, 79, 87, 103, 114, 134, 160, 175, 209, 216, 245, 253, 262, 263
Centres 80, 112
Hatha Yoga by Ramacharaka 83–84
Raja Yoga by Ramacharaka 85
Solar plexus 79
Yoga and the subconscious 85
Stanislavsky House Museum xvi
Stanislavsky Opera studio 33, 135
Stanislavsky Opera Theatre 135, 234
Stanislavsky Opera-Dramatic studio 36, 135
State Institute of Declamation (Gosudarsvennii Institut Deklamatsii) 129
State Institute of the Word (Gosudarsvennii Institut Slova) 129
Stebbins, Genevieve
Delsarte System of Expression 98
Dynamic Breathing and Harmonic Gymnastics 146
Steiner, Rudolf 86, 179, 180, 185, 192, 195, 199, 200
Eurhythmy 185, 186, 189, 192–193, 195
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds 186
Speech Formation 195
See also anthroposophy, eurhythmy
Sticotti, Antonio Fabio 46
Stoicism 259
Strasberg, Lee
Method x, xiv
Objective 66–67
Strindberg 157, 206
Studio on Borodinskaia St
See Meyerhold
Studio on Povarskaia St 28, 205, 208
Stylisation 156, 178
See also Meyerhold
Sudakov, Il’ia Iakovlevich 34
Sukhanov, S. 90–91, 160, 261
The Subconscious and its Pathology 90–91
Sukhovo-Kobylin, Aleksandr Vasil’evich
The Case 179
Sulerzhitskii, Leopold Antonovich 3, 16, 29, 30, 31, 39, 45, 51, 65, 79, 80, 82, 113, 139, 156, 156–159, 162, 163, 175, 181, 183
Sushkievich, Boris Mikhailovich 156, 163, 166, 175
Suvorin, Aleksei Sergeevich 10, 174
Symbolist drama 2, 25, 78, 86, 88, 115, 163, 168, 185, 205, 206, 213
Synaesthesia 127, 229
System 4–13, 34, 72, 106–111, 114, 155, 156, 180, 183, 225, 236, 261, 264
Action xiv, 18, 31, 36, 39–44, 45, 57, 64–67, 67, 74, 95, 102, 148, 160, 170, 194, 232, 238–239, 242, 245, 253, 256, 259, 267–270
Action and the task 65
Active analysis 31, 63, 242
Activeness xi, 65, 149, 154
Adaptation 98, 115, 148, 160, 263
Articulation 145
Aspiration 94–96, 99
Attention 30, 32, 54, 74, 76, 79, 86, 91, 95, 110, 115–118, 139, 241, 246, 249, 250, 263
Circle of attention 86
Multi-layered attention 96–98, 199, 255
Objects 96–99, 148, 196
Belief (truth and) 29, 76, 120, 148, 246, 253, 264, 268
Bits 65, 101, 248, 267
Bodiless rehearsal 196
Breathing 11, 149–151
Characterisation 17, 105, 251, 270
Communion 14, 36, 79, 82, 92, 115, 191, 263
Self-communion 99
Conscious/unconscious 248
Consciousness 87
Control and finish 55, 105
Desire/wanting 66, 94, 101, 160, 247
Diction 105, 135, 140, 141, 142, 184
Dislocation 22, 27, 29, 31, 115, 122, 148, 232, 254–256, 257, 265
Elements of the internal region of the soul 96–102
Emotion xiv, 44, 50, 51, 67, 105, 203, 244, 246
Emotion and action/movement 45, 58, 103
Ethics and discipline 105
Experiencing xiv, 15, 17, 18, 21, 27, 29, 31, 31, 32, 36, 37, 65, 140, 149, 152, 153, 156, 158, 159, 181, 212, 216, 217, 218, 235, 242, 243, 244, 249, 252, 254, 257, 260, 261, 264
False Experiencing 58
Plan/scheme of experiencing 45
Expressiveness of the body: 129–135
See also plastique
Facial mask 141–148, 143
Feeling 16, 36, 37, 91, 199, 202, 236, 242, 259
Kernel of 51
Logic and consistency of feelings 9, 90, 93, 101, 238, 246
Feeling of truth (and faith) 29, 115, 207
Feeling-thought-word 139, 241
Freeing/relaxing the muscles (freedom from tension) 01, 29, 76, 79, 80, 96, 107, 110, 202, 252, 263
Fusion/merging 28–29, 76, 158, 256
Given circumstances 44, 65, 67, 84, 93, 108, 137, 148, 233, 239, 253, 267
Grasp 85–86, 261
Habit
See second nature
Here, today, now 168, 252, 267
Ia esm’ 78, 100, 252, 254–256, 261, 268
Imagination 73, 93, 115, 148, 151, 196–197, 237, 239
Incarnation xiv, 17, 30, 33, 39–47, 50, 100, 104–153, 181, 218, 252, 255, 264
Infectiousness 15, 49, 51, 83, 139, 212, 232, 244, 254
Inspiration 11, 26, 113, 254
Internal and external 1, 11, 17, 27, 27–226, 30, 107, 238, 250, 254
See also (experiencing, and incarnation)
Intonation 147
Justification 29, 30, 84, 88, 115, 137, 182, 252, 267
Laws of creativity 11
Laws of speech 11, 135–140
Life of the body/life of the spirit 105, 109, 111
Life of the human spirit of the role 36, 45, 50, 63, 104, 148, 242
Logic and consistency 105, 268
Lures 57, 108
Magic/creative if 29, 34, 57, 66, 76, 93, 108, 148, 196, 233, 239, 267
Mechanical habit 110
Memory 22, 28, 90, 91, 99
‘Affective’/‘Emotional’ 11, 19, 22, 27, 32, 38–103, 44, 48, 51, 56–57, 62, 75–76, 102, 115, 149, 151, 159, 162, 181, 195–200, 207, 236, 240, 242, 246, 247, 248, 254, 258, 263
Purification of emotional memory 57
‘Intellectual’ 11, 56–57, 102
‘Muscle’ 11, 48, 119, 120
Sense 54
Method of Physical Actions xiv, 31, 44, 62–64, 101, 102, 136, 234, 237, 239–248, 248, 251, 253, 257, 264, 267–270
Mind, will and feeling: psychic motivators 91–96, 101, 108, 247, 251, 263
Muscle controller 84, 98, 110, 118, 119, 122, 199
Pauses 147, 149
Perspective 105, 149, 255
In speech 146
Placing the voice 11, 135, 140, 141, 184
Plastique 11, 84, 105, 109, 135, 184, 218
Posture 109–110, 119
Prana (feeling of movement) 82–84, 88, 112, 161, 191, 232, 244, 261, 263
Prana rays 82
Psycho-technique 12, 129, 149, 183
Public solitude 100, 182, 210, 264
Radiation (sending out, receiving rays) 76, 82, 148, 181, 244
Relaxation
See freeing the muscles
Resonators 141
Rhythm 11, 80, 247
Second Nature xiv, 12, 18–19, 76, 113–122, 153, 250–251
Sense of the Self on Stage 29, 33, 36, 76, 96, 101, 151, 152, 181, 182, 264
Internal 100
External 100, 105
General 105
Sense of true measure 15–37, 140
Sense of truth and belief 64
Scientific basis 4, 122
Singing 105, 135, 143
Sitting on hands 252
Speech and its laws 105, 135
‘Gabbling the words’ 119
Stress, pauses and intonation 146–147
Stage charm 105
Subconscious 27, 28, 85, 149, 207, 245, 252–266, 268
See also Subconscious, Superconscious, Unconscious
Subconscious creativity of nature itself – through the artist’s conscious psycho-technique 4–13, 45, 76, 89
Subtext 148–149, 261
Superconscious 27, 29, 74, 76, 85, 86, 88, 111
See also Subconscious, Superconscious, Unconscious
Supertask (superobjective) 62, 66–67, 95, 100–102, 117, 148, 246, 248, 263, 267
Task 29, 36, 65, 93, 99, 101, 157, 160, 182, 194, 257, 260
Tatirovanie 152, 269
Tempo-rhythm 105, 127, 151–152, 242
Theory and practice x, xv, xv, 9, 10, 38, 109, 238–266
Three bases of the system: activeness, truth of passions and the subconscious 39–45
Three moments 98
Through-action 101, 148, 181, 250, 268
Toilette, actor’s 73, 96, 108, 113
Unconscious 27, 45, 67, 78, 160, 245, 263
Unconscious soul/spirit 76
Unconscious, superconscious and subconscious 86–91
The unconscious through the conscious 29
Units 248
Vocalisi 140
Voice and body ‘as instrument’ 111
Voice, vocal training, exercises 11, 32, 113, 135–141, 139, 140
Wanting-
See desire
Word-thought 139
See also machine
Tagore, Rabindranath 79–80
Tairov, Aleksandr Iakovlevich 154, 209, 236
Synthetic actor 154
Talma, François-Joseph 47
Taylorism/Taylor, Fredrick Winslow 204, 219, 223, 225–227, 228, 229
Scientific Time Management 223, 225
Tchaikovsky, Petr Il’ich
Evgeny Onegin
Temperament 162, 165, 169, 208
See also Meyerhold, Vakhtangov
Templar, Knights Templar 185
Theosophy 3, 85, 185, 201
Tikhomirov, Iosaf Aleksandrovich 130
Tolstoi, Alexei Konstantinovich 25, 102, 205
Tsar Fiodor Ivanovich 174
Tolstoy, Leo xiii, 2, 4, 13–15, 28, 31, 35, 51, 56, 64, 78, 101, 140, 165, 183, 199, 203, 212, 235, 241, 244, 266
Art as the communication of ‘feeling’
See Stanislavsky
Communion 14, 213
The First Distiller 185
Fruits of Enlightenment 24
Infectiousness
See system
The Living Corpse 39
What is Art? 13–17, 49–50, 212
Toporkov, Vasilii Osipovich 151, 152, 240
Tortsov xv
Tretiakov, Sergei Mikhailovich 155
Trotsky, Leon 225
‘Truth of passions’ 44, 208
Turgenev, Ivan Sergeevich 19
A Provincial Lady 79
Turnverein 107, 130
Ushakov, Dmitri Nikolaevich 129, 146
Vakhtangov, Evgenii Bagrationovich ix, xiv, 28, 31, 39, 80, 98, 104, 107, 122, 126, 140, 154–173, 176, 177, 180, 183, 185, 194, 198, 202, 203, 204, 206, 210, 256, 258, 259, 264, 266
Action 160
Adaptation 160
Affective/emotional memory 169, 172, 181
Alienation 198
Attention 160, 161
Doll of the Infanta, P. Antokolsky 162, 181
The Dybbuk by S. Ansky, Habimah studio 169, 170, 176
Emotion/temperament from the essence 162, 169
Erik XIVth by Strindberg 169, 170
Experiencing 164, 171
Festival of Peace, Hauptmann 158
Form 160, 169
Formula 161
Fraser, role in The Deluge 159
Fusion 163
Given circumstances 167
Grotesque 169, 172, 211
Here, now, today 167
‘I need’ 161
Image 161, 163, 165, 171
Imagination/fantasy 160, 161, 163
Imaginative/fantastic realism 166, 167, 199
Improvisation 169
Infectiousness 165
Inspiration 160
Internal sense of the self 161
Justification 162, 167, 217
Kernel of the role 165
Method of acting 159
Meyerhold 171–172
Miracle of St Anthony by Maeterlinck
1918 163
1921 169
Motion 168
Play-acting (igra) 170
Prana 161
Representation 171
Revolution 163–167, 166
Rhythm 168
Role as Tackleton in Cricket on the Hearth 157
Princess Turandot 169, 170, 176
Rosmersholm, Ibsen 162, 163, 163–164, 165
Studios: Students’ Dramatic studio 158
Mansurov studio 159, 162, 166, 167, 256
The People’s Theatre 163
Third studio 163
System 158, 160, 163–164, 169, 174
Tasks 160, 161
Temperament 165, 169
‘To those who write about Stanislavsky’s System’ 166
Transformation 161
Unconscious 160
Wanting/desire 160
The Wedding by Chekhov
1920 168
1921 169
Yoga 161
Vasileva, (Bugaeva) Klavdia Nikolaeva 186, 193
Verdi Guiseppe
Rigoletto 36, 135
Verhaeren, Emile
The Dawn 220
Vitalism (the vital force) 12, 34, 38, 81, 82
Viven, Leonid S. 205
Volkenstein, Vladimir Mikhailovich 53, 64, 102
Volkonskii, Prince Sergei 86, 104, 108, 115, 123, 141, 142–143, 152, 155
The Expressive Person 124, 126
The Expressive Word (Vyrazitel’noe Slovo) 145, 146, 146–148
Intonation 146
Iskusstvo i Zhest 127
Laws of Living Speech and Rules of Reading 142
Laws of Speech 142
Papers of Rhythmic Gymnastics Courses 128
Pauses (logical and psychological) 146
The Person on the Stage (Chelovek na Stsene) 128, 168
Populariser of Delsarte and Dalcroze 122–130
Stress 146
Voloshchin, Margarita 186
Wheatley, J. 247
Watson, J. B. 67
Wood, Ernest
Concentration 86
Work 7
Wundt, Wilhelm 2, 3
Yoga
Asanas 82
Bakthi Yoga 82
Gnani Yoga 82
Hatha Yoga
See Stanislavsky and Ramacharaka
Karma Yoga 81
Raja Yoga 81
See also Stanislavsky and yoga
Zaitsev, Boris Evgenevich The Lanin Estate 158
Zakhava, Boris 158, 159–162, 161–162, 206–208, 256–259
Zamiatin, Evgenii Ivanovich 187, 225
Zucchi, Virginia 21