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Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training - Paperback

Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training - Paperback

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by Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson (Editor)

Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training offers a comprehensive analysis of the Sanford Meisner Acting Technique in comparison to the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique.

This compilation reveals the connections as well as the contradictions between these two very different approaches, while highlighting meaningful bridges and offering in-depth essays from a variety of sources, including master teachers with years of experience and new and rising stars in the field. The authors provide philosophical arguments on actor training, innovative approaches to methodology, and explorations into integration, as well as practical methods of application for the classroom or rehearsal room, or scaffolded into a curriculum.

Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training is an excellent resource for professors teaching Introductory, Intermediate or Advanced Acting Technique as well as acting program directors and department chairs seeking new, impactful research on actor training.

Author Biography

Anjalee Deshpande Hutchinson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She received her BA in Theatre from Kalamazoo College and her MFA in Directing from Northwestern University. In addition to directing, Anjalee's scholarship includes devised theatre and acting technique. Anjalee is certified in the Michael Chekhov Technique from the National Michael Chekhov Association, and the Sanford Meisner Technique from the True Acting Institute, and has also trained in Moment Work with the Tectonic Theatre Project.

Number of Pages: 258
Dimensions: 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN
Illustrated: Yes