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The body's journey
The company Pas de Dieux, co-directed by Leela Alaniz and Won Kim, proposes a year of revitalizing creativity through the rediscovery of the body as a path of research and creation. In addition to the various technical workshops proposed throughout the year, the program also proposes theoretical reflection concerning the attitudes of the actor/dancer immersed in his work, therefore opening the possibility to create with the body, spirit and sentiments as a part of a continual work of self-discovery.

Throughout the 2009-10 year, the company Pas de Dieux will invite several renowned artists engaged in the corporeal research for the actor/dancer:

Thomas Leabhart
Corporeal Mime– Technique Etienne Decroux

program

* "Back Exercices"

* Corporeal Mime Technique: Scales, Counterweights, Dynamo-Rhythm, Figures of Style, Walks

* Improvisations

* New Creations

Biography

Student of Etienne Decroux from 1968 - 1972, Thomas Leabhart is Professor of Theatre and Resident Artist at Pomona College, and member of the Artistic Staff of ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology). He performs and teaches regularly in France, and has performed and taught workshops at the Museum of Design in Zurich, The Austrian Theatre Museum in Vienna, the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, the American Center in Montevideo, Movement Theatre International in Philadelphia, and many other venues. Editor of Mime Journal, he has authored more than thirty articles and Modern and Post Modern Mime (Macmillan in London and St. Martin's Press, NYC, 1989), Etienne Decroux, Routledge Performance Practitioners (Routledge Press 2007), The Decroux Sourcebook (Routledge 2008).

THE CORPOREAL MIME OF ETIENNE DECROUX
Developed by Etienne Decroux, Corporeal Mime stems from the theatrical experiments of the early 20th century (Appia, Craig, and Copeau). Its objective is to place drama inside the moving body, rather than to substitute gesture for speech as in pantomime. Both sculptor and statue, the mime must apply principles that are at the heart of drama to movement: pause, hesitation, weight, resistance, and surprise.

practical info

Janaury 4 to 8, 2010

9h-17h monday to friday
35h / 280€
Studio Philippe Genty, Paris 11ème
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