Photo of the biomechanics exercise "The Horse"

From The Director's Prism: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Russian Theatrical Avant-Garde by Dassia N. Posner

  • In this photograph of the biomechanics exercise “The Horse,” also called “Three as a Horse,” one actor holds on to the shoulders of another while a third, one leg aloft, “rides” the horse formed by the lower two.

    The “horse” act in Eisenstein and Yutkevich’s pantomime Columbine’s Garter (1922) most likely was based on this exercise.

    See book: p. 52, 69, 155, 186

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  • 1922
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  • Photograph of Meyerhold’s students performing the biomechanics exercise “The Horse” (“The Ring”). State Higher Theatre Workshops (GVYTM), Moscow (1922). TWS FIN05844. Copyright © Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, University of Cologne.