Etienne Decroux

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
	Decroux, Grotowski, and the audience
	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
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”
	The movement itself: counterweights
	The 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