Etienne Decroux /
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Routledge performance practitioners.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Promethean Life
- Introduction
- 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
- Decroux, Grotowski, and the audience
- 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"
- Great Project
- 2. Summary And Analysis of Words On Mime
- ch. 1 sources
- ch. 2 Theatre and mime
- ch. 3 Dance and mime
- ch. 4 mime and mime
- ch. 5 teaching
- 3. Decroux As Director/Creator: How Did Decroux Make A Performance?
- Banishing text
- Making performances from improvisation
- Decroux's actor
- Funding for performances
- other "alien arts"
- movement itself: Counterweights
- dynamic construction
- "dynamo-rhythm"
- Material actions suggest mental states
- Carpenter
- Washerwoman
- Summary
- 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".