배우의 인물 구축과 연기 훈련을 위한 미하일 체홉의 가상의 신체 연구 = A Study on Michael Chekhov’s Imaginary Body for Character Building and Acting Exercise

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This study aims to examine the origin, concept, character building, and acting exercise of Michael Chekhov’s Imaginary Body and to understand how to apply it to actor’s acting. It is a concept similar to the Metaverse applied to various studies recently, and is the world of virtual character created inside the actor. Chekhov created it by accepting Rudolf Steiner’s ‘wearing the imaginary body clothes’ which is an expression of the relationship between the human body and the spiritual ego. Chekhov’s imaginary body is a character building theory about the relationship between the actor’s ego and the character’s ego. Actors act wearing various clothes called imaginary body to express the invisible character’s ego as the essence of the role. It has two characteristics as character building and acting exercise. In order for the actors to easily understand the imaginary body, it was divided into three steps: imaging the imaginary body, wearing the imaginary body clothes, and acting the imaginary body. Also, this study looked at the representative acting exercise of it. For the actor, it is an important factor that has a great influence on character building. The completeness of play and character may vary depending on the imaginary body created by the actor. The Actor should be able to create various imaginary body according to their psychology, imagination, and sense, and to uniquely characterize it. It is a useful acting technique for the actor who need to build a variety of characters. It is a creative acting technique that allows you to discover a new interpretation of the character by breaking away from the stereotyped actor, the attitude of sticking to one’s acting. This researcher hopes that Chekhov’s imaginary body will help actors who pursue creative acting.