Stanislavski System

The Stanislavski System is an approach to acting developed by Konstantin Stanislavski, a Russian actor, director, and theatre administrator. The System is the result of Stanislavski's many years of efforts to determine how a human being can control, in performance, the most intangible and uncontrollable aspects of human behavior: things such as emotions, and artistic inspiration.

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Konstantin Stanislavski - Russia - Actor - Director

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The System arose as a result of the questions a young Stanislavski had regarding great actors whom he admired in his youth -- actors like the tragedians Maria Yermolova and Tommasso Salvini -- and how these actors seemed to operate on different rules than everyone else, and yet like everyone else, they were susceptible on some nights to flashes of inspiration, of completely 'being a role', while on other nights their performances were good or merely accurate.

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Maria Yermolova - Tommasso Salvini

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In essence, the goal that remained throughout the life of Stanislavski was to formulate some codified, systematic approach that might impart to a given actor some grip on his 'instrument', that is, himself, beyond immediate physical control.

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