“[…]Sulerzhitsky and Demidov stand beside the more familiar “figures of Meyerhold, Vakhtangov and Mikhaïl Chekhov and, in their vicinity, Sushkevich, Boleslavsky, Birman, Uspenskaya and Giatsintova from the efflorescent First Studio.[..]
Apparently the highly regarded people that knew how to teach the system were people like Sulerzhitsky, Demidov, Vakhtangov, MIkhail Chekhov, Meyerhold (as you notice all these are different facets of the same system).
Boleslavsky and Uspenskaya responsible for bringing part of the system to the West (united states of America) and the becoming branches : “method” by Strasberg, stella and Meisner, were part of the first try, that of the first studio.
The only one, of the three American teachers, that does mention one of the basic teachers of the system (Vakhtangov) remains Lee Strasberg. One could say that in his later years Lee was mostly influenced by Yevgeny more than Konstantin.
Stella had her five weeks in Paris with the master himself, and Meisner was a combination of the two (Lee and Stella) plus his take on Rapoport’s essay on “doing” aka “action oriented directions” a directorial essay not a pedagogical one.
The fun part is this, Rapoport was a student who came out of the Vakhtangov school, and in fact his writings were made accessible to the US by Lee Strasberg’s efforts.
