Anatoli Vassiliev

Anatoli Vassiliev (1942 -) is a Russian Director. In 1968, it enters to the Academy of state of Dramatic art Lounatcharski of Moscow (Gitis). In 1987, it directs the theater “School of Dramatic art”. This school (which it continues to direct) appears as a laboratory in which experiments on the voice or the place of the body are undertaken. It also attempted to put in scene nontheatrical texts to question orality and the literary value of it. Heir to Stanislavski, it sets up the dramatic art at the top of other arts to make an art of living of it. He is very highly criticized for his settings in scene considered to be calamitous of Molière, or lately of Iliade.

Settings in scene

Solo for chimes of Zagradnik (1973)
the First Alternative of Vassa Jeleznova according to Gorki (1978)
the adult Girl of the young man of Slavkine (1979)
the Hoop of Slavkine (1985)
Six characters in search of author of Luigi Pirandello (1987)
Dialogs of Plato (1988)
This evening one improvises Luigi Pirandello (1990)
the Republic of Plato (1992)
Fiorenza and Joseph and his brothers of Thomas Mann (1993)
Host of Molière eight dialogs (1994)
Lamentations of Jérémie (1996)
Don Juan or the stone guest and other poems of Pouchkine (1998)
K… of Pouchkine, Mozart and Salieri (2000)
Médée-Material of Heiner Müller (2001)
Iliade - Song XXIII according to Homère

Works

In connection with Ball masked (P.O.L)
Seven or eight lessons of theater (P.O.L)
Anatoli Vassiliev in the middle of theatrical pedagogy, rigor and anarchy (Meanwhile)

Quotations

“My school is a kind of elementary school of the dramatic art, where this last has to create an artistic universe on scene… following the example universe of Picasso and Vinci, also not very similar they were, which was born within the rectangular framework their fabrics. Is this prohibits?”

“I understood that the theater is not just when a part is taken, that the roles are distributed and that a spectacle is left. It is necessary to choose topics, to invent a multitude of useless compositions and to seek within compositions and repetitions on topics given the single alternative of the representation to come”. “Anatoli Vassiliev subjects Molière the martial art proof”.

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