"For me, beauty lies not only in the movement but in its context." - Darren Stevenson
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Maybe I will fix this directory in the Fall 2002, when I teach THR121 Acting, or in the Spring 2003, when I teach THR221 Acting... or ...
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Acting One
Fundamentals : BioMethod
Oedipus05: Tragedy & BM
Title Page
SummaryFinally! BM got its own name -- biomechanics.vtheatre.net
No, it's not medical, but theatre pages!
In Method Acting -- Chekhov, The Three Sisters. For Stagematrix (directing) -- Hamlet. Acting One -- The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wile.
Homework
I do not think that BM as a course can be fully developed in non-conservatory setting. The same should be said about Method. Maybe it shouldn't be the goal. Applications -- for directing, script analysis and etc.
[ first, read the big old BM directory @ filmplus.org/biomx ]
Exer., exams, tests pages are updated every time I teach the class!
[ The main directory is @ Tripod will be for "members only" when I get the BM textbook published. I try to keep the old directory subject-topics oriented, and this (new) one -- arranged for the THR221 Intermediate Acting class. ]
PSMust hyperlink the pages to the textbook (chapters)! Plus, glossary from the Kaplan's book (5 Approaches to Acting, see contents on this page).
NB"Don’t use your conscious past, use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your character. I don't want you to be stuck with your own life. It's too little." Stella Adler
Must post the notes in method.vtheatre.net on:
stage movement list (amazon) *
With the fall of Greece and the rise of the Roman Empire, natural philosophy waned in favor of technology. The second century anatomist, Galen, physician to the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, comes and goes, leaving his monumental work, On the Function of the Parts (meaning the parts of the human body) as the world's standard medical text for the next 1,400 years, but nothing like another biomechanician is seen for a long, long time.
Indeed, the advancement of virtually all western science was halted until the Renaissance in the middle of the second millennium. Now we finally come to someone whom we might call a biomechanician of sorts: Leonardo da Vinci. Born poor in 1452 and largely self-educated, da Vinci became famous as an artist, but worked mostly as an engineer. He made substantial contributions to mechanics in the course of pursuing his numerous military and civil engineering projects and imaginative inventions, ranging from water skis to hang gliders. He had an understanding of components of force vectors, friction coefficients, and the acceleration of falling objects, and had a glimmering of Newton's 3rd law. By studying anatomy in the context of mechanics, da Vinci also gained some insight into biomechanics. He analyzed muscle forces as acting along lines connecting origins and insertions and studied joint function. However, delightful as his notebooks are to explore, they were personal and unpublished for centuries, and his brilliant daydreaming had little scientific impact.
Galen's anatomical hegemony was finally challenged when, in 1543, at age 29, the Flemish physician Andreas Vesalius published his beautifully illustrated text, On the Structure of the Human Body. Even so, it took still more centuries for the world to accept fact that Galen had made errors corrected by Vesalius. There is an old story of an anatomist telling a student that the reason the cadaver did not conform to Galen's description was that human anatomy had changed in the intervening thousand years. We smile, though we, too, still get lost in the darkness of our dogmas.
http://asb-biomech.org/historybiomech
Biomechanics is the science that examines forces acting upon and within a biological structure and the effects produced by these forces. Biomechanics addresses several different areas of human and animal movement.
VI. БИОМЕХАНИЧЕСКАЯ ГЛАВА [ ref ] :
[ru] - Это биомеханика, - пояснил мне приятель. Биомеханика!! Беспомощность
этих синих биомехаников, в свое время учившихся произносить слащавые
монологи, вне конкуренции. И это, заметьте, в двух шагах от Никитинского
цирка, где клоун Лазаренко ошеломляет чудовищными salto! ...
- Искусство будущего!! - налетели на меня с кулаками.
А если будущего, то пускай, пожалуйста, Мейерхольд умрет и воскреснет в
XXI веке. От этого выиграют все, и прежде всего он сам. Его поймут. Публика
будет довольна его колесами, он сам получит удовлетворение гения, а я буду в
могиле, мне не будут сниться деревянные вертушки. [Bulgakov]
Michael Chekhov
Vsevolod Meyerhold *
When will I get to "physics" (left) or take it BM II?
updates -- blog? (left)
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