WHY LEARN MICHAEL CHEKHOVS TECHNIQUE FROM LISA DALTON?
Lisa Dalton is in a most unique position to teach Michael Chekhov s work, especially to actors interested in on-camera work and all styles of stage. Here s why: Michael Chekhov died in Hollywood in 1955, after coaching many great stars including Marilyn Monroe, Anthony Quinn, and Gary Cooper. He began his teaching as a member of the Moscow Arts Theater in the late 1910 s, and was marked for arrest in 1928 by the Soviet government for integrating eastern meditative practices and visualization techniques into his training methods. He had begun to develop the power of Radiation (used by actors such as Yul Brynner and Clint Eastwood) and the now famous Psychological Gesture (used by such notable actors as Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Depp and Jack Nicholson.) After is escape from Russia, his next ten years were in Europe where he continued to develop his work in Latvia and Lithuania, France and England. In 1938, he moved his school to New York and Connecticut, and then, in 1942, to Hollywood. H
