#meyerhold

[jareckiworld]

Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev (1886-1939) — Portrait of Meyerhold   (oil on canvas, 1916)

[un-ionizetheradlab]

“I often wake at night in a cold sweat with the thought that I have become banal, that everything in life is going too well for me, that I will die under a thick quilt, that I have stopped being an innovator.” – Vsevolod Meyerhold, Soviet Constructivist theatre director. 

[pidranok]

Vsevolod Meyerhold playing Pierrot in Alexander Blok’s The Puppet Show

[conaghpunchcapa2710-blog]

Modern Dance 

[pantalon-et-colombine]

Apart from the actor Meyerhold, all those taking part in ‘Carnaval’ were members of the Imperial Ballet. But as it was against the rules for them to appear elsewhere than at the Mariinsky during the ballet and opera season, they danced anonymously and all were masked. Everyone knew who they were, including members of the Directorate of the Imperial Theatres who were present, but because of the polite fiction of the masks, discipline could be said to be unbreached.

Richard Buckle, Nijinsky: The Revealing Portrait of the Legendary Dancer (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971), 128.

[travsd]

Monument to Meyerhold

I can’t recall how I first learned about Soviet theatre visionary Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940) as a young person. Perhaps by way of Brecht? For quite a while I was enthralled with reading about him, and his own writings as interpreted by others. And looking at photos of his workshops and productions. When I founded my theatre company Mountebanks and wrote my crackers manifesto in the mid ’90s…

View On WordPress

[thebugaftermayakovsky]

Death of Meyerhold.

[cksappleton]

"Meyerhold! A mix of creative genius and human vulnerability. Innumerable, those in agony over his loss, whom, like myself, loved him endlessly. Innumerable moments of excitement for those, who witnessed the creative magic of this one time wizard of the stage." Sergei Eisenstein Is Meyerhold, framed and murdered by Stalin in 1940, the "greatest theater master" (Eisenstein)