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WORKSHOPS
2008/09

INVITATION to CONFERENCE AND DEMONSTRATION
January 10, 2009 Saturday
6pm
Théâtre du Lierre - grand salle
22, rue Chevaleret - 75013 Paris
Metro: Bibliothèque François Mitterand
tél. : 01 45 86 55 83
Cost: Free with Reservation
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WORKSHOP PROGRAM

* "Back Excercises"

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

* Study of “The Carpenter” – A repertory piece of Etienne Decroux

* Improvisations

* New Creations

THOMAS LEABHART

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) and Etienne Decroux, Routledge Performance Practitioners (Routledge Press 2007).

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.