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Mikhail Aleksandrovich "Michael" Chekhov (Russian: Михаил Александрович Чехов, 29 August 1891 – 30 September 1955) was a Russian-American actor, director, author, and theatre practitioner. His acting technique has been used by actors such as Clint Eastwood, Marilyn Monroe, and Yul Brynner. Konstantin Stanislavski referred to him as his most brilliant student. He was a nephew of the playwright Anton Chekhov.
Although mainly a stage actor, he made a few notable appearances on film, perhaps most memorably as the Freudian analyst in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), for which he received his only Academy Award nomination.
He was born in Saint Petersburg the son of Alexander Chekhov and his wife Natalya Golden. It was his father's second marriage his mother, a Russian Jew, having been the governess to his children from his first marriage. He was raised in a middle-class family his father being in the Imperial Customs Service as well as a moderately successful writer. Chekhov's first wife (1915–1919) was actress Olga Chekhova born Knipper, whom he met at the MAT First Studio. (She was named after her aunt, the wife of Anton Chekhov.) Their daughter, also baptized Olga, was born in 1916, she became a German actress under the name Ada Tschechowa. Olga Chekhova was a daughter of Konstantin Knipper and the niece and namesake of Olga Knipper, Anton Chekhov's wife. His second wife was Xenia Ziller, of German origins.
Lisa Dalton (Lisa Loving) is an American stage and film actor, director, documentary filmmaker, acting coach, and the co-founder of the National Michael Chekhov Association (NMCA), an accredited training program in the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique currently based out of the University of Southern Maine. Lisa is one of the most ardent proponents of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique as can be seen in her lifelong dedication to sharing her knowledge about Michael Chekhov and his approach to acting.
Lisa's professional career began in New York as one of the founding members of the Bond Street Theatre. Aside from acting, she also performed stunts while in New York, doubling for popular artists like Madonna and Cher, until she suffered a debilitating back injury in 1989. Notable film acting credits include ER, Carnivale, Inspector Mom, Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman, and Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon. In 2011, she toured a solo performance of Anton Chekhov's The Darling, adapted and directed by Victor S. Tkachenko's, at the New York Fringe Festival after first premiering in Fort Worth, TX at the Pantagleize Theatre.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (/ˈtʃɛkɔːf, -ɒf/;Russian: Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов, pronounced [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf]; 29 January 1860 – 15 July 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short fiction in history. His career as a playwright produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Along with Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theater.Chekhov practiced as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress."
Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text".
Michael /ˈmaɪkəl/ is a male given name that comes from the Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל / מיכאל (Mīkhāʼēl, pronounced [miχaˈʔel]), derived from the question מי כאל mī kāʼēl, meaning "Who is like God?" (literally, "Who is like El?). In English, it is sometimes shortened to Mike, Mikey, Mickey, or Mick.
Female forms of Michael include Michelle, Michele, Michaela, Mechelle, Micheline, and Michaelle, although Michael is occasionally seen as a female name; women named Michael include actresses Michael Learned and Michael Michele. Another form is Mychal, which can either be a male or female name.
Patronymic surnames that come from Michael include Michaels, Carmichael, MacMichael, McMichael, Micallef, Michaelson, Mikkelsen, DiMichele, Mikhaylov, Mykhaylenko, Mikeladze, Michels, and Mitchell.
The name first appears in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Numbers, 13:13 where Sethur the son of Michael is one of 12 spies sent into the Land of Canaan. The archangel Michael features in the Book of Daniel 12:1, and in the Qur'an as Mikhail.
The National Michael Chekhov Association (NMCA) is an accredited actor training and teacher certification program in the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique.
The National Michael Chekhov Association (NMCA) began informally during the 1993 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference at which the three founders, Mala Powers, Chekhov Estate Executrix; Lisa Dalton_(actor), American representative on the International Michael Chekhov Association’s Board; and Wil Kilroy, Professor, University of Southern Maine, were presenting workshops on the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique.
Wil Kilroy initiated the Chekhov Theatre Institute in 1994 during the University of Southern Maine (USM) Summer Sessions. Several years later, the course was granted full graduate and under graduate accreditation from the State of Maine Educational System. From 1994 through 2006, the three teachers team-taught the program at USM, initiating the first Michael Chekhov Teacher Certification Track globally.
Michael Chekhov Technique - p.1 Graham Dixon on Archetypal Principles
Spellbound (1945)
Actors discuss Part 5: Michael Chekhov method and acting process
Michael Chekhov Techniques with Lisa Dalton
Michael Chekhov Technique samples
Playing With Basic Michael Chekhov Principles: Expansion/Contraction With Shakespeare
Michael Chekhov Studio Orlando - Three Sisters Sensations: Falling
Anthony Quinn: Chekhov Story
Weaving Method and Michael Chekhov
Lisa Dalton on Michael Chekhov
released December 28, 1945 Michael Chekhov as Dr. Alexander Brulov Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use." I own no rights or make any profit from this video,as it's only for entertainment purposes and to promote Ingrid Bergman and her work and the owners of her work on the internet.
Feature length doco Director and Actor - Passions, Process and intimacy with Dalip Sondhi is now available to order here: http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=4802 Check out the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtnk_4UEpsI&list; http://www.alucinorproductions.com Alucinor Productions, Video Production Perth, Western Australia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alucinor-Productions-379120801022 Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlucinorP Tumblr: http://alucinor-productions.tumblr.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alucinor_productions/ BLOG: http://www.alucinorproductions.com/blog.html
Lisa Dalton, National Michael Chekhov Association (NMCA) master teacher, introduces from the studio in Los Angeles, excerpts from a Michael Chekhov technique class which addresses objective and style. She offers a brief introduction to who Michael Chekhov was and then we move into the classroom with glimpses of exercises and feedback from the actors' experiences. Lisa concludes with an excellent discussion on the difference between Chekhov and Recalling personal memories as well as how Meisner's personal Moment-to-Moment is different from the character's moment-to-moment. Playful, highly physicalized improvisations with different film genre styles provide a means to freeing the actors' body and imagination. www.chekhov.net and www.lisadalton.com
Clips of actors using Michael Chekhov Acting techniques. (we are still adjusting the titles!) This first clip is from the 1994 Third International Michael Workshop at Forest Row, UK. Lisa Dalton plays the Actress, under the direction and offstage presence of Jack Colvin as the Author. Jack was a protege of MC and mentor to Lisa, teaching her the Sensations of Falling, Balancing, Floating which Chekhov was developing before he died in 1955. This was the first introduction of these tools to the world and they are now taught regularly as part of the Technique. more information on them can be found in the articles section of www.chekhov.net. Here, Lisa is primariy working with the tool of Balancing....she is struggling to maintain her emotional balance while being questioned and dismissed...
National Michael Chekhov Association Certified Acting Teacher & Founder of the Michael Chekhov Studio Orlando, Joe Herrera, demonstrating/applying basic principles of psycho-physical acting using Shakespeare text. Learn more about psycho-physical acting at: www.michaelchekhovstudioorlando.com
National Michael Chekhov Association Certified Acting Teacher & Founder of the Michael Chekhov Studio Orlando, Joe Herrera gives a brief explanation and demonstration of Chekhov's technique: Falling ( yielding to the pull of gravity) as an acting tool to evoke various characters, emotions, and reactive transitions. For more info: www.michaelchekhovstudioorlando.com
Anthony Quinn talking to students at the Actors Studio School about Michael Chekhov
This video reveals Lisa Dalton, National Michael Chekhov Association (NMCA, www.chekhov.net) Master acting teacher sharing insight into how various other methods of acting interrelate to Michael Chekhov's Acting theories. It provides an historical and theoretical context for Chekhov's work in relation to Stanislavski, Meisner, Adler, Hagen and supports it with scientific, athletic, and esoteric information so that teachers and actors who use these other methods can find a connection with the Chekhov work to enhance their teaching and performing. It reveals how analysis alone can leave actors stuck in their heads. It takes analysis to Synthesis--the final piece actors must have to convey their images to their audiences. Don't you just hate when you have a great idea and it just doesn't com...
Lisa Dalton of the National Michael Chekhov Association, on the acting technique of Anton Chekhov's nephew. Dalton performs an adaptation of A. Chekhov's short story "The Darling" July 28-30, 2011, at Pantagleize Theatre in Fort Worth, and in August at the New York International Fringe Festival
Anthony Quinn talking to students at the Actors Studio School about Michael Chekhov
Inside The Actors Studio - 2007.10.15 - Anthony Hopkins
Actors Studio, Brazil, TV-interview with Marjo-Riikka Makela about the Michael Chekhov technique and Chekhov Studio International 2011
Lenard Petit interviewed by Øystein Stene
Interview about the Michael Chekhov Technique and Chekhov Studio International, at Stanislavsky Institute Sao Paulo, Brazil (interview is in English)
Feature length doco Director and Actor - Passions, Process and intimacy with Dalip Sondhi is now available to order here: http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=4802 Check out the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtnk_4UEpsI&list; http://www.alucinorproductions.com Alucinor Productions, Video Production Perth, Western Australia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alucinor-Productions-379120801022 Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlucinorP Tumblr: http://alucinor-productions.tumblr.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alucinor_productions/ BLOG: http://www.alucinorproductions.com/blog.html
Meet Oorvazi Irani who teaches subjects like Film Appreciation and Acting. Apart from the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute, she also heads the subject of film at the SVKM IB school, teaches Film Appreciation modules at The Digital Film School, Mumbai University Film - Diploma course and also at Balaji ICE, and also did a special module for Bits Pilani Cultural Fest, Goa. This video is the third part in the interview series where Oorvazi discusses the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. Exclusively on www.voicesnviews.com.
Lisa Dalton of the National Michael Chekhov Association, on the acting technique of Anton Chekhov's nephew. Dalton performs an adaptation of A. Chekhov's short story "The Darling" July 28-30, 2011, at Pantagleize Theatre in Fort Worth, and in August at the New York International Fringe Festival
Michael Chekhov Student Anthony Quinn Interviewed by Michael Chekhov Master Teacher Lisa Dalton
released December 28, 1945 Michael Chekhov as Dr. Alexander Brulov Ingrid Bergman as Dr. Constance Petersen Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay by Angus MacPhail and Ben Hecht Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use." I own no rights or make any profit from this video,as it's only for entertainment purposes and to promote Ingrid Bergman and her work and the owners of her work on the internet.
Feature length doco Director and Actor - Passions, Process and intimacy with Dalip Sondhi is now available to order here: http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=4802 Check out the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtnk_4UEpsI&list; http://www.alucinorproductions.com Alucinor Productions, Video Production Perth, Western Australia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Alucinor-Productions-379120801022 Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlucinorP Tumblr: http://alucinor-productions.tumblr.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alucinor_productions/ BLOG: http://www.alucinorproductions.com/blog.html
Lisa Dalton, National Michael Chekhov Association (NMCA) master teacher, introduces from the studio in Los Angeles, excerpts from a Michael Chekhov technique class which addresses objective and style. She offers a brief introduction to who Michael Chekhov was and then we move into the classroom with glimpses of exercises and feedback from the actors' experiences. Lisa concludes with an excellent discussion on the difference between Chekhov and Recalling personal memories as well as how Meisner's personal Moment-to-Moment is different from the character's moment-to-moment. Playful, highly physicalized improvisations with different film genre styles provide a means to freeing the actors' body and imagination. www.chekhov.net and www.lisadalton.com
Clips of actors using Michael Chekhov Acting techniques. (we are still adjusting the titles!) This first clip is from the 1994 Third International Michael Workshop at Forest Row, UK. Lisa Dalton plays the Actress, under the direction and offstage presence of Jack Colvin as the Author. Jack was a protege of MC and mentor to Lisa, teaching her the Sensations of Falling, Balancing, Floating which Chekhov was developing before he died in 1955. This was the first introduction of these tools to the world and they are now taught regularly as part of the Technique. more information on them can be found in the articles section of www.chekhov.net. Here, Lisa is primariy working with the tool of Balancing....she is struggling to maintain her emotional balance while being questioned and dismissed...
National Michael Chekhov Association Certified Acting Teacher & Founder of the Michael Chekhov Studio Orlando, Joe Herrera, demonstrating/applying basic principles of psycho-physical acting using Shakespeare text. Learn more about psycho-physical acting at: www.michaelchekhovstudioorlando.com
National Michael Chekhov Association Certified Acting Teacher & Founder of the Michael Chekhov Studio Orlando, Joe Herrera gives a brief explanation and demonstration of Chekhov's technique: Falling ( yielding to the pull of gravity) as an acting tool to evoke various characters, emotions, and reactive transitions. For more info: www.michaelchekhovstudioorlando.com
Anthony Quinn talking to students at the Actors Studio School about Michael Chekhov
This video reveals Lisa Dalton, National Michael Chekhov Association (NMCA, www.chekhov.net) Master acting teacher sharing insight into how various other methods of acting interrelate to Michael Chekhov's Acting theories. It provides an historical and theoretical context for Chekhov's work in relation to Stanislavski, Meisner, Adler, Hagen and supports it with scientific, athletic, and esoteric information so that teachers and actors who use these other methods can find a connection with the Chekhov work to enhance their teaching and performing. It reveals how analysis alone can leave actors stuck in their heads. It takes analysis to Synthesis--the final piece actors must have to convey their images to their audiences. Don't you just hate when you have a great idea and it just doesn't com...
Lisa Dalton of the National Michael Chekhov Association, on the acting technique of Anton Chekhov's nephew. Dalton performs an adaptation of A. Chekhov's short story "The Darling" July 28-30, 2011, at Pantagleize Theatre in Fort Worth, and in August at the New York International Fringe Festival
Lisa Dalton, National Michael Chekhov Association (NMCA) master teacher, introduces from the studio in Los Angeles, excerpts from a Michael Chekhov technique class which addresses objective and style. She offers a brief introduction to who Michael Chekhov was and then we move into the classroom with glimpses of exercises and feedback from the actors' experiences. Lisa concludes with an excellent discussion on the difference between Chekhov and Recalling personal memories as well as how Meisner's personal Moment-to-Moment is different from the character's moment-to-moment. Playful, highly physicalized improvisations with different film genre styles provide a means to freeing the actors' body and imagination. www.chekhov.net and www.lisadalton.com
This video reveals Lisa Dalton, National Michael Chekhov Association (NMCA, www.chekhov.net) Master acting teacher sharing insight into how various other methods of acting interrelate to Michael Chekhov's Acting theories. It provides an historical and theoretical context for Chekhov's work in relation to Stanislavski, Meisner, Adler, Hagen and supports it with scientific, athletic, and esoteric information so that teachers and actors who use these other methods can find a connection with the Chekhov work to enhance their teaching and performing. It reveals how analysis alone can leave actors stuck in their heads. It takes analysis to Synthesis--the final piece actors must have to convey their images to their audiences. Don't you just hate when you have a great idea and it just doesn't com...
Lenard Petit interviewed by Øystein Stene
Through intense and personal work, and creative exploration, students in this course honed their skills at the Michael Chekhov acting technique. This is a powerful presentation of their talent - Occupy the Dream.
Joe Herrera, NMCA Certified Teacher introduces The Michael Chekhov Acting technique: a Psycho-physical approach to acting that uses the imagination, the body, energy and movement as the source of creativity and inspired acting. This is episode four, where we explore the technique Chekhov called Archetypal Gestures (AG). It is exploring "why" the energy is expanding/contracting. If we imagine that expansion/contraction is the primary WHAT of energy's movement patterns, and Qualities of Movement are the HOW that energy moves, then the AG's are WHY energy expands and contracts. For example, the energy expands to push or contracts to pull. There are 10 basic AG's: pull, pull, lift, smash, gather, throw, penetrate, tear, drag and reach. The first six are considered primary AG's and the last f...
actors on acting and the activities it involves DiscoveryOnstage.com is Jeremy's program - Links and info are all up in that website The Michael Chekhov Handbook for the Actor - http://www.amazon.com/The-Michael-Chekhov-Handbook-Actor/dp/0415496721
amerikai thriller Szereplők: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter, Clem Bevans, Norman Lloyd, Alma Kruger, Alfred Hitchcock (férfi a . angol krimi Szereplők: John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, Robert Young, Percy Marmont, Lilli Palmer, Charles Carson Író: William Somerset . amerikai thriller Főszereplők: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll, John Emery, Steven Geray, Alfred Hitchcock (férfi a felvonóban) . angol kalandfilm Szereplők: Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks, Charles Laughton, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams, Mervyn Johns, Horace Hodges Író: Daphne Du .
Debate moderated by Gianluca Iumiento
Joe Herrera, NMCA Certified Teacher introduces The Michael Chekhov Acting technique: a Psycho-physical approach to acting that uses the imagination, the body, energy and movement as the source of creativity and inspired acting. In this video Joe introduces one of Michael Chekhov's Technique for dynamic characterization/transformation - The Imaginary Body. Using this amusing tool of the Imaginary Body offers the actor/artist a singular point of concentration that brings all the different components of the characterization for that character. To learn more about the Michael Chekhov Technique, visit and contact Joe at: http://veejoe7.wix.com/michaelchekhovstudio For Private Sessions: https://takelessons.com/profile/joe-h19
Pain free Approach to emotional states is the topic. Lisa Dalton, National #MichaelChekhov Association Master Teacher leads a KCACTF workshop on this fun and free path to feelings that you can snap into and out of without ever disturbing your memories. No need to imagine bad things happening to you or your loved ones, No need to recall your personal life. Create from inspiration and play fully through the character's life. Many thanks for watching. www.chekhov.net