Edward Rozinsky is a natural teacher. Ever since he was a young boy, he has always wanted to teach others everything that he himself has mastered. At the age of 6, while still learning to play scales, he was teaching his friend to play piano. At the age of 10, after being taught folk dances he trained a partner for himself and subsequently a whole group of school friends as a dance ensemble. When mastering illusion mime (from watching Marcel Marseau on TV,) he founded the pantomime group, first in his town. Later, after becoming a student of the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music, and Cinematography, Mr. Rozinsky organized and directed a Mime company in Leningrad, Russia. There he trained an ensemble of young artists who have became well known in Europe and elsewhere under the name “Litzedei” (“Jesters” in Russian). Several of his students became world-renowned mimes and clowns, in such prestigious organizations as “Cirque du Soleil.” Mr. Rozinsky’s apprentice Slava Polunin in his critically acclaimed “Slava’s SnowShow” recently completed a three year (1000 performance) run in Union Square Theatre Off-Broadway, appeared on Broadway, and continues traveling all over US and the World.

After graduating from the Leningrad Institute as a Stage Director, under prominent Director/Educator Georgi Tovstonogov (himself a student of Konstantin Stanislavsky), Edward Rozinsky continued his studies for a Master’s Degree in Stage Movement under well-known professor Ivan Kokh. At that time in Russia, mime was still a novelty, but Edward Rozinsky petitioned the administration of the Leningrad Institute to start a new program and to teach mime professionally. He became the Head of the first professional Mime training program in Russia.

Soon his first book “The Silent Art” was published, and his skills as a Stage Director, Stage Movement Instructor, and Choreographer were widely utilized.
In 1979 circumstances in Russia forced Mr. Rozinsky to emigrate to the United States in 1979. Despite a language barrier during his first years in New York, Edward took a pro-active approach to his new life and choreographed movement in several off-Broadway productions, directed and acted in a variety show, and taught Acting and Stage Movement in a Modeling School.

When he was invited to teach Physical Theatre at the University of Miami in 1983 Edward Rozinsky designed a program for their Theatre Department that included Essential Stage Movement, Period Movement, Stage Unarmed Combat, Stage Fencing, and Mime. His book “Essential Stage Movement”
was completed and ready to be published in 1988. It received favorable reviews from publishing houses, however the book had been designed more for the teachers of the subject than for students. Serious concerns that it was impossible to learn Stage Movement from a book made Mr. Rozinsky suspend this project for almost 20 years while he continue to teach.

Now, with the emergence of image- and sound-recording technology Mr. Rozinsky came up with the idea of utilizing the knowledge and life-long experience he has acquired and created a Video Instructor course in Stage Movement. He believes that a complete course of video-lessons will be a good teaching tool for thousands of acting students, choreographers, and movement teachers for many generations to come.

When Edward Rozinsky’s book was being written, Personal Computers had just emerged. There was no Internet, CDs, or DVDs. In fact, there was no way to teach students other than in class where a teacher passes on his knowledge and wisdom directly to a small group of students. The time had come to make his Method of Stage Movement, that incorporates Stanislavsky’s system of actor training, available to groups and individuals everywhere in the English-speaking world.

The Stage Movement method taught by Edward Rozinsky has helped generations of professional actors both in Russia and the United States to develop their natural psychophysical abilities. Among them are Internationally and Nationally recognized actors Slava Polunin, Nikolai Terentiev, Chaz Mena, and Maria Canals.

His Video Instructor course “Essential Stage Movement” is now available on the Internet to teach generations of students a subject that is so much neglected in American theatrical education. The course will develop in them the Faculties, Habits, and Skills necessary to successfully carry out their work for Stage, TV, and Film.