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Page 1 of 6 Jörg Bochow, PhD, is Head Dramaturge at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, and Head of the Department of Dramaturgy at the Academy for Performing Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg. He has authored a dissertation on the Russian cinema of the 1920s, and the book Das Theater Meyerholds und die Biomechanik (1997, 2010). Gennadi Bogdanov graduated as an actor from the State Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS). From 1972 to 1992 he was an actor with the Satire Theatre, Moscow, where he studied Meyerhold’ theatre biomechanics under Nikolai Georgievich Kustov, actor and biomechanics instructor who worked with Meyerhold until 1938. After Meyerhold’s death, Gennadi Bogdanov decided to dedicate his life to popularizing Meyerhold’s system. He started to work at the Russian University of Theatre Arts, first as a lecturer (since 1992) and then as the director of the International School of Theatrical Biomechanics (since 1993). Since 1990 he has been popularizing theatrical biomechanics all over the world. He teaches at the ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology), directed by Eugenio Barba. He has directed plays in Italy, Germany, USA, France, UK and Russia. In 2004 he founded the International Centre of Theatrical Biomechanics of Perugia (Centro Internazionale Studi di Biomeccanica Teatrale). |