The Gymnastics of the Senses: Actor Training

For the first time in one collection, the most popular and famous works of K. S. Stanislavsky—already classics—“The Actor’s Work on Himself,” parts 1 and 2, and “The Actor’s Work on the Role,” along with S. V. Gippius, a well-known theater teacher, dubbing director, and film director. “Gymnastics of the Senses.” Training of creative psychotechnique—consisting of a theoretical part with 400 acting exercises. The set of exercises from professional actor training in creative psychotechnique, which the author called “gymnastics of the senses,” included elements of Indian yoga, Eastern martial arts, pagan games, and exercises by theater actors—synthesized and adapted within the method of K. S. Stanislavsky—and intended not only for acting teachers, directors, actors, and students of theater universities and studios, but also for professional psychologists and specialists from the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Open and put into practice by Gippius methods are widely used both in theater pedagogy and in psychology as a system for developing cognitive, emotional, and volitional processes.