Biomecanica teatro meyerhold biography

Biomechanics was a system of actor training developed by Vsevolod Meyerhold. Its purpose was to widen the emotional potential of a theater piece and express thoughts and ideas that could not be easily presented through the naturalistic theater of the period.

Biomecanica teatro meyerhold biography

The techniques of biomechanics were developed during the rehearsals of a series of plays directed by Meyerhold in the 1920s and 1930s when Socialist Realism was at its height in Russia. Biomechanics is a precursor to and influence on much of the 20th century's physical theatre.

Despite a lack of scenery in many of Meyerhold's plays, “if the actor remains on the bare stage, the greatness of the theater stays with him”.^[1] In a similar vein, Markov claims that the constructivists saw the stage “merely as a platform for showing off the external technique of the actor”.^[2] This facilitated Meyerhold's use of biomechanics, an acting system which relied on motion rather than langua