Etienne Decroux

Name: Etienne Decroux
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ISBN: 9780415354370

ISBN-10: 0415354374

ISBN-13: 9780415354370

Edition: 2007

Authors: Thomas Leabhart

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Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major influences on twentieth- and twenty-first-century performance. These compact, well-illustrated and clearly written books will unravel the contribution of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators. Etienne Decroux is the first book to combine: an overview of Decroux's life and work an analysis of Decroux's Words on Mime

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/27/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



List of plates


List of figures


Acknowledgments



A Promethean Life


Introduction


The life of Etienne Decroux


Chez Copeau: The Chapel, the laboratory, the school


Jean-Louis Barrault


1789 and The Extravagant Captain Smith


Children of Paradise


Marcel Marceau


Performance at La Maison de la Chimie


New York years


Last years in Boulogne-Billancourt


Decroux's "underground" school


What Decroux accomplished


Decroux and Asian theatre


Decroux and Grotowski


The vibrato and dynamic immobility in Decroux's work


Transmission: patience is a long passion


Transmission of what?


"If Corporeal Mime survives, the world will survive"


The great project


Notes



Summary and Analysis of Words on Mime



Sources



Theatre and mime



Dance and mime



Mime and mime


Note



Decroux as Director/Creator: How Did Decroux Make a Performance?


Banishing text


Making performances from improvisation


Decroux's actor


Funding for performances


The other "alien arts"


The movement itself: counterweights


The dynamic construction - "dynamo-rhythm"


Material actions suggest mental states


The Carpenter


The Washerwoman


Summary



Corporeal Mime Technique: Practical Exercises with Immediate Applications


Inclinations on a lateral plane


Contradictions on a lateral plane


Segmented movement, lateral scale, cumulatively curved


Pulling an extensor


Double, triple, and quadruple designs


Stages of consciousness


Movement research: how to create a "movement score"


Bibliography


Index