Sept 27-29, 2007 International Conference, Paris

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PROGRAMME PREVISIONNEL

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Institut de Recherches en Etudes Théâtrales (IRET),

Paris III-Sorbonne nouvelle

Atelier de recherches sur l’intermédialité et les arts du spectacle (ARIAS), CNRS-Paris III-ENS

 

 

 

Mikhaïl Tchekhov/ Michael Chekhov

 

From Moscow to Hollywood. From Stage to Screen

 

24-29 septembre 2007

 

Workshop : September 24-26, 2007, directed by Patrick PEZIN (Les Voies de l’acteur), with Lisa Dalton (USA), Gitis Padegymas (Lithuania), Oleg Koudriachov (Russia)

 

Scholar’s symposium : September 27-29, 2007, Auditorium of the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), organized by Marie-Christine AUTANT-MATHIEU (Atelier de Recherches sur l’Intermédialité et les arts du Spectacle /ARIAS, CNRS) et Christine HAMON-SIREJOLS (Université Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle)

 

 

Thursday, September 27 : Reconstructing the way. Archive and Testimonies

 

9h : Official opening of the Symposium

9h30

Chair : Jean-Loup BOURGET (ARIAS, ENS), Anatoli SMELIANSKI (Studio-School of The Moscow Art Theatre)

 

The Path of an Actor

► A Citizen of the World. Prospero or Ariel? (Liisa Byckling, Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland)

►The Revizor’s Irreality and Chekhov’s Khlestakov (Laurence Senelick, Tufts University, USA)

 

10h30. Coffee Break

►Chekhov and Biely : From Eurythmy to the Stage Adaptation of Peterburg (Christine Hamon-Siréjols, Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Self-Transmission: M. Chekhov’s Autobiography (Hélène Henry, Paris IV-Sorbonne)

►The Expected but Unplayed Roles : Lear et Don Quichotte (M.-C. Autant-Mathieu, ARIAS, CNRS)

 

13h Lunch: restaurant INHA

 

14h-18h

Chair : Georges BANU (University of Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle), Hélène HENRY (Paris IV-Sorbonne)

What Archive reveals

►Chehov’s Russian Archive and Editing Problems (Marina Ivanova, Chtchoukine Institute, Moscow)

►Chekhov and Vakhtangov at the First Studio. (Vladislav Ivanov, National Institute of Art History, Moscow)

► M. Chekhov’s Acting Seen from the Audience (Maria Khalizeva, National Institute of Art History, Moscow)

 

 

15h30. Coffee Break

►Drawings, Colours, Figures: the M. Chekhov’s Psychology of Image (Stéphane Poliakov, Université Lyon-2)

►A Russian Actor in Berlin : M. Chekhov Plays in Reinhardt’s Productions (Marielle Silhouette, Paris IV-Sorbonne)

The Castle Awakens: an original drama betrayed by its creators (Gérard Abensour, INALCO/ENS)

The Actor – an Emotional Machine. A Comparison of Stanislavski’s System, Chekhov’s Method and Meyerhold’s Biomechanics (Rose Whyman, University of Birmingham)

 

 

Friday, September 28 : The Master and his Disciples. The Teaching Link

 

9h30 -13h

Chair : Jean-François DUSIGNE (University of Picardie Jules Verne), Laurence SENELICK (Tufts University, USA)

 

The Master and his disciples

Stanislavski, the spiritual Father (Anatoli Smelianski, Studio-School of the Moscow Art Theatre)

M. Chekhov : From Stanislavski’s System to His own Technique of Acting (Andreï Kirillov, Russian Institute of Art History, Saint-Petersbourg)

 

10h30. Coffee Break

Radiation and Irradiation. M. Chekhov and Stanislavski (Andrew White, University of Valparaiso, USA)

Atmospheres, Improvisations and Self-Transformation : M. Chekhov and Maria Knebel (Sharon Carnicke, University of South California)

►Chekhov and Meyerhold (Béatrice Picon-Vallin, ARIAS, CNRS)

 

13h Lunch: restaurant INHA

 

14h-18h

Chair : Gérard ABENSOUR (ENS-Lyon/INALCO, Paris, Liisa BYCKLING (Renvall Institute, University of Helsinki)

Transmission : What and How ?

 

Chekhov and Žilinkas. The Lithuanian Years (Ina Pukelite, University of Kaunas, Lithuania)

Chekhov, Stage Director in Riga (Silvja Radzobe, University of Riga, Latvia)

The Emergence of Chekhov’s Creative Method during his Work in Lithuania (Gytis Padegimas, University of Klaipeda, Lithuania)

 

15h30. Coffee Break

M. Chekhov and the Question of Creativity (Franc Chamberlain, University College Cork, Ireland)

Alice Crowther, a Steiner’s disciple in Dartington Hall (Graham Dixon, The Michael Chekhov Studio London, UK)

►From Utopia to Diaspora : M. Chekhov’s Theatrical Experiments and Dartington Hall’s Exilic Perspectives (Yana Meerzon, Ottawa University, Canada)

 

Saturday, September 29  : Chekhov’s Method Today

 

9h30-13h

Chair : Jean-Loup BOURGET (ARIAS, ENS)

Chekhov as a Film Actor in Russia, Germany and United States

Chekhov, a Russian Chaplin ? (Valérie Pozner, Franco-Russian Research Centre in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, Moscow)

Chekhov on the German Screen or Is Charisma a National Phenomenon ? (Oksana Bulgakowa, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung" (ZfL), Berlin)

 

10h30. Coffee Break

 

Playing in Hollywood (Jacqueline Nacache, University Paris VII)

The « Lost » Hollywood Films (Mel Gordon, University of Berkeley)

 

13h. Lunch: restaurant INHA

 

14h-18h

Panel chaired by Maria SHEVTSOVA (Goldsmiths College, London) : Chekhov Today.

►The last Chekhov’s disciples and their activity to day (Joanna Merlin, Michael Chekhov Association / MICHA, New York)

►Demonstration of Three Sisters Sensations by Lisa Dalton (Acting Teacher, The Chekhov Connection web site, Los Angeles)

►Demonstration of Master Classes in the Michael Chekhov Technique (DVD, 2007)

 

15h 30 Pause

►Chekhov, His Method and the Russian School Today (Anatoli Vassiliev)

►Practitioners speak (the list is opened) : Graham Dixon (The Michael Chekhov Studio London), Victor Tkatchenko (M. Chekhov Studio, Ridgefield), Gytis Padegimas (Lithuania), Jerri Daboo (Exeter, UK), Lembit Peterson (Estonia), Patrick Pézin (France).

►Dialog-Performance in three voices, by Jean-François Dusigne (Association de Recherche des Traditions de l’acteur/ARTA, France)

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                              

 

 
Calendar of Events
Based on the Chart For Inspired Acting from On The Technique of Acting.

Cultivate trust in your creativity and strengthen your expression of it.


This workshop will culminate in an ensemble work-in-progress performance of Scenes.
at 7:00 PM on Aug. 23, 2008.

Special focus will be on
Chekhov's Chart for Inspired Acting
Application to Scenes
Application to Improvisation
Clear teaching structure
Analysis to Synthesis

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