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1 online resource (183 pages) |
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Routledge Performance Practitioners Ser |
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Routledge Performance Practitioners Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of plates; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: 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 |
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Decroux, Grotowski, and the audienceThe 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; Chapter 2: SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS OF WORDS ON MIME; Chapter 1: sources; Chapter 2: theatre and mime; Chapter 3: dance and mime; Chapter 4: mime and mime; Chapter 5: teaching; Chapter 3: 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." |
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The movement itself: counterweightsThe dynamic construction -- "dynamo-rhythm"; Material actions suggest mental states; The Carpenter; The Washerwoman; Summary; Chapter 4: CORPOREAL MIME TECHNIQUE: PRACTICAL EXERCISES WITH IMMEDIATE APPLICATIONS; Inclinations on a lateral plane; Contradictions on a lateral plane; Segmented movement, lateral scale, cumulatively curved (the spine moving like a chain); Pulling (and being pulled by) an extensor; Double, triple, and quadruple designs; Stages of consciousness; Movement research: how to create a "movement score"; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Etienne Decroux is the primary creator of Corporeal Mime and one of modern theatre's most charismatic innovators, known for his ground-breaking use of the body as the principal means of expression on stage. This second edition combines: an overview of Decroux's life and work an analysis of Decroux's Words on Mime, the first book to be written about this art a series of practical exercises offering an introduction to Corporeal Mime technique. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners are unbeatable value for today's student |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mimes -- France -- Biography
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Mime.
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Corporeal Mime.
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Etienne Decroux.
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Mime.
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Thomas Leabhart.
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Words on mime.
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Mime
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Mimes
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France
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429939389 |
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0429939388 |
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