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MICHA, the Michael Chekhov Association, is a New York based not-for-profit organization that links the artistic vision Michael Chekhov created with the work of actors, teachers and directors of today. MICHA aims to add a much needed dimension to current methods of acting training.
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Michael Chekhov was Stanislavsky's star student and a master acting teacher. Exiled from Soviet Russia, he made his way to England and then to the United States, spending his last years as an actor and acting teacher in Hollywood. Along the way he
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Following meetings with the trustees of Dartington Hall, Michael Chekhov agreed to establish the Chekhov Theatre Studio at Dartington Hall in 1936. American and European students were recruited from the Cornish School, and through advertisements in theatre magazines. Auditions were held in New York by Tamara Daykharanova who became the Studio's American connection. Although there were problems with student recruitment, talent, and isolation from London, the Chekhov Theatre Studio flourished until the Munich Crisis of October 1938. By December, the entire school with the exception of some English students, had relocated to Ridgefield, Connecticut, where Beatrice Straight had rented an empty boarding school estate. New students joined the Studio in America including Yul Brynner.
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Michael Chekhov, a pupil of Stanislavski, went on to develop in Russia, Europe and the United States an influential method of actor training, and is becoming more widely known in the field of performance research. Particular interest is being shown in the way Chekhov perceived the relationship of the emotions to physical actions. Felicity Mason studied with Michael Chekhov at Dartington, U.K. in the 1930s and later in New York. In this DVD-ROM she teaches a young actor, Daniel Jamieson, some of the basic features of this training as they were taught to her, and explains the processes involved.
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Nephew of playwright Anton Chekhov, Michael Chekhov, born in 1891 embraced the theatrical world he was born into by studying performance, eventually being taught by Constantin Stanislavsky, who considered Chekhov to be his most brilliant student. He went on to become one of Russia's most famous and respected actors. Before the revolution of 1917, Chekhov ran the second Moscow Art Theater Studio. But Communists found his work too "alien and reactionary," according to the MICHA website, and he was asked to leave the country.
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The foundation for what after the Revolution became Michael Chekhov's method was laid in the acting style of Moscow Art Theatre, in psychological realism of Anton Chekhov's plays. At the same time Chekhov expressed the spirit of the turn-of-the-century Russian culture, symbolist poetry and non-naturalistic theatre. His favourite writer was Dostoevsky, one of his spiritual fathers was the symbolist writer Andrei Bely, his sources of inspiration came from philosophy, legends and fairytales.
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