Creation of Series of Posters for the Projects of Workshops of Electrotheatre Stanislavsky by Associative Method

Being a part of the technical boom, mechanization and parsing everything from cat dropping, salivation to sexual desires, Meyerhold drew attention to an area such as biomechanics, which had recently been formed into science. Initially, it was rather a training for the muscles, later a system of exercises for the realization of inner and outer experience. Based on Pavlov's reflex system research and Taylorism, Meyerhold tries to develop a faultless system for producing emotions for the theater. While from the standpoint of a modern person, rather intimidated by the prevalence of technique and the manipulation of consciousness, the one who's looking for natural, this may seem something if not archaic, but rather harsh in relation to the actor's personality, the issue is not that straightforward. A famous name, but only a couple of videos about the practice; Meyerhold is called pride and gem, then corrupted and not applicable to the present; someone says that biomechanics is both a brand in itself and an obligatory part of the actor's training, while someone — that biomechanics doesn't exist any longer in Russia. All of this was a good reason to conduct a study, which examines the origins of biomechanics, what it represents, how it was applied, and tries to answer the question: is there a place for it in the modern world? Modern theater is very different from the age of the avant-garde, it is difficult to imagine here a grotesque play of the 1920s. But we can see the traces of Meyerhold's method both in the directing techniques of modern cinema and in contemporary dance. If the theater is a mixture of narrative and gesture, why should the gesture be leveled? And the essence of biomechanics is not exhausted neither by grotesque, nor by physical culture. This is primarily an internal method for "adjusting" the actor's sense of self and his interaction with space, and in this direction, biomechanics should not be forgotten.