Татьяна Миронова – The First Public Theatre Guild (страница 5)
This was a two-hour intensive practical session in the Onegin Hall. The intensity was so great that the very air of this sacred space seemed to heat up, becoming akin to the core of a boiling volcano.
In the final hour, we delved into unconscious symbols and the concepts of natural unconscious reactions, including painful and pathological ones.
When analyzing observations, almost everyone chose the simplest and, in their view, most explicable examples, especially in the realm of emotions they observed, where feelings tended to gravitate toward varying degrees of fear. This, of course, reflects their own experiences – they react so strongly to these examples because they themselves confront such fears every day. Most of them are captives of this socially pervasive emotion in our challenging times.
May 21, 2024: Guild of the M. Chekhov Method
Ivan Viktorovich Dementyev:
Today, many learners arrived late to the lesson. I almost started lecturing them:
I recall, during my time at the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio, our dean once said:
Why set myself as an example? I need to find another way to motivate them, to inspire them to arrive on time. That is the essence of high-level pedagogy. There’s no need for me to say I’m punctual – as the head of the course, it’s obvious I can’t be late.
Though, I must admit, I was terribly late to the very first lesson. I was mortified, even though I didn’t blame myself – I had calculated the travel time correctly to arrive by 3:50 PM! But we didn’t arrive until 4:30 PM! Everything was blocked, and on top of that, the driver took a wrong turn due to GPS glitches.
Fortunately, I wasn’t alone; the group leader, Olya Stashkevich, was with me, and she witnessed the situation. It turned out the President’s inauguration was taking place in the city, and in the end, it was the President who made me late for my very first lesson.
Let this tardiness become part of our history as well!
May 21, 2024: Guild of Plastics and Dance
Elizaveta Yuryevna Matvievich:
Today, we chose a calmer and more measured mode of existence. We focused on training where the body becomes a useless tool if one doesn’t think or imagine. Not everyone grasped this concept right away, but after about forty minutes, many found the right path, and the first breakthroughs in discovery occurred!
By the end of the session, we worked on the crucial concepts of contact and understanding. The task was for two people to be connected, with all their movements coordinated and comfortable for their partner. Many showcased great creativity, others took a simpler route, but contact was established, and no one got hurt!
Fabulist / Guild Learner – Mikhail Russkikh:
May 22, 2024: Guild of Autonics
Roman Evgenievich Akimov:
By sheer coincidence, our guild arranged a meeting with Alexey Igorevich Sheynin. From the moment I received the phone call to making my decision, only a few seconds passed. The meeting followed a well-trodden path for Alexey Igorevich – he always has a few prepared stories up his sleeve, ones he repeats from meeting to meeting. But this time, there was something new, and even I was surprised: it was Boris Pasternak’s poetry, which he hadn’t recited before. I must admit – it was the highest level of emotional artistry.
The questions from the learners revealed that most of them are still caught in clichéd narratives about the profession (I dislike that word). And what’s most interesting – they perceive everything said (each time) as dogma, even when the statements completely contradict one another. Of course, this is the easiest approach to take, except for one “but”: any adopted template always clashes with individuality and one’s true self.
By adopting the template of someone else’s established persona, they seem to console themselves for their own failures and dream of shining under different circumstances. We will work step by step to change this. Each of them has an inner core, a foundation upon which they must rely to face the challenges the future holds for all of us.