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Stanislavski

American  
[stan-uh-slahv-skee, -slahf-, stuh-nyi-slahf-skyee] / ˌstæn əˈslɑv ski, -ˈslɑf-, stə njɪˈslɑf skji /
Or Stanislavsky

noun

  1. Konstantin Konstantin Sergeevich Alekseev, 1863–1938, Russian actor, producer, and director.


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I studied theater — Stanislavski — and English literature before I embarked on my music career, which was still being creative with words.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 8, 2025

Stanislavski and Strasberg still have something to teach.

From New York Times Jun. 8, 2022

After studying with Stanislavski herself in 1934, she returned to the Group with the news that he had disavowed affective memory.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 26, 2022

She was expelled from about a dozen schools, by her count, before starting her career in the arts, studying the Stanislavski acting method at a theater academy in Rome.

From Washington Post Dec. 9, 2021

Stanislavski wrote that an actor should try to imagine an artist undertaking a “delicate pencil sketch.”

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

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