Constantin Stanislavski was born on 1863 with the name of Konstantin Sergeyevich Alekseev in Moscow, Russia. He was part of a family who loved theater (His maternal grandmother was a French actress and his father constructed a stage on the family's estate) .He then started acting at the age of 14 joining the family drama chain. In 1885, he gave himself the stage name of Constantin Stanislavski. A couple of years later he married a teacher that would study hard with him about acting. In 1897 Constantin Stanislavski made a theatre called the Moscow Art Theatre a with friend of his named Vladimir Nemirovich Danchenko. “During the Moscow Art Theatre's early years, Stanislavski worked on providing a guiding structure for actors to consistently
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Some of his theories were plenty but the one many people remember is the Stanislavski method commonly referred to as emotional memory. If you are or were an actor you might have used this method without even realizing. It is a method where you use a memory or a vision of your life from the past and use it to act better. This helps in drama more than movie production because in drama you only have one take and you have to do the entire thing in that one stretch or at most two stretches. But in movie or film making you have unlimited numbers of shots unless you want to object those shots. The emotional memory helps people shooting movies to but not as much as theatre actors. Emotional Memory also requires that an actor recreate an event from the past in order to remake the feelings experienced at that moment. The necessity of the event being from the far off, rather than recent past is because Stanislavski felt at that time changed or slightly changed events and feelings, towards acting Stanislavski believed that the quality of the actor’s acting for the director was dependent upon the truthfulness of his experience. "This sincere experience went through a time segregator or a time splitter that transformed the quality of the experience into a poetic reflection of life’s experience" he said once. On stage the actor lived, not a real life, but a true stage experience that he imagined as a real life moment. "From
Some of his theories were plenty but the one many people remember is the Stanislavski method commonly referred to as emotional memory. If you are or were an actor you might have used this method without even realizing. It is a method where you use a memory or a vision of your life from the past and use it to act better. This helps in drama more than movie production because in drama you only have one take and you have to do the entire thing in that one stretch or at most two stretches. But in movie or film making you have unlimited numbers of shots unless you want to object those shots. The emotional memory helps people shooting movies to but not as much as theatre actors. Emotional Memory also requires that an actor recreate an event from the past in order to remake the feelings experienced at that moment. The necessity of the event being from the far off, rather than recent past is because Stanislavski felt at that time changed or slightly changed events and feelings, towards acting Stanislavski believed that the quality of the actor’s acting for the director was dependent upon the truthfulness of his experience. "This sincere experience went through a time segregator or a time splitter that transformed the quality of the experience into a poetic reflection of life’s experience" he said once. On stage the actor lived, not a real life, but a true stage experience that he imagined as a real life moment. "From