Zanim urodzi się słowo (Z doświadczenia rosyjskiej szkoły sztuki aktorskiej)
Before a word is born (from the experience of the Russian school of acting)

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the upbringing of an actor, according to the principles of Stanislavsky, in which verbal communication in the first months of training recedes into the background to create a space for dialogue based on student’s activities. Please note that the text is focused on these processes which precede the vocal act of the actor. The author shows the essential components of training an actor, which we have to deal with during exercising the elementary tasks of acting in the first year at drama school. The article exposes the role of the perfect (spiritual) need for recognition and highest task in the educational process of the actor. The psychophysiological interpretation of physical actions method occupies an important position in the text, as well as its interpretation in the Soviet and Russian theatre pedagogy. The first part of the article was devoted to theoretical aspects of education of the actor, and the second author confronts the practice of theoretical assumptions and presents exercises and etudes that are canvas of Stanislavsky school.

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