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Copeau/Decroux, Irving/Craig: A Search for 20th Century Mime, Mask & Marionette

Copeau/Decroux, Irving/Craig: A Search for 20th Century Mime, Mask & Marionette

Leabhart, Thomas

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

AnthropologyActing & AuditioningTechnical Theater

ISBN10: 1032071818
ISBN13: 9781032071817
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 12 2022
Pages: 174
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In this series of essays, Thomas Leabhart presents a thorough overview and analysis of Etienne Decroux's artistic genealogy.

After four years' apprenticeship with Decroux, Thomas Leabhart began to research and discover how forebears and contemporaries might have influenced Decroux's project. Decades of digging revealed striking correspondences that often led to adjacent fields--art history, philosophy, and anthropology--forays wherein Leabhart's appreciation of Decroux and his kinsfolk, who themselves transgressed traditional frontiers, increased. The following essays, composed over a 30-year period, find a common source in a darkened Prague cinema where people gasped at a wooden doll's sudden reversal of fortune. These essays: investigate the source of that astonishment; continue Leabhart's examination of Decroux's family tree; consider how Copeau's and Decroux's keen observation of animal movement influenced their actor training; record the challenging and paradoxical improvisations chez Decroux; and recall Decroux's debt to sculpture, poster art, sport and masks.

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