Étienne Decroux Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Étienne Decroux (July 19, 1898 in Paris, France – March 12, 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France) studied at Jacques Copeau's Ecole du Vieux-Colombier, where he saw the beginnings of what was to become his life's obsession–Corporeal Mime. During his long career as a film and theatre actor, he created many pieces, using the human body as the primary means of expression. Enrolled at the Vieux-Colombier in 1923, as a student of Charles Dullin, Decroux began to envision a newly defined vision of mime, and later developed an original, personal style of movement. His early "statuary mime"... MORE

Étienne Decroux (July 19, 1898 in Paris, France – March 12, 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France) studied at Jacques Copeau's Ecole du Vieux-Colombier, where he saw the beginnings of what was to become his life's obsession–Corporeal Mime. During his long career as a film and theatre actor, he created many pieces, using the human body as the primary means of expression. Enrolled at the Vieux-Colombier in 1923, as a student of Charles Dullin, Decroux began to envision a newly defined vision of mime, and later developed an original, personal style of movement. His early "statuary mime" recalls Rodin's sculptures. Later, more plastic forms were called "mime corporeal" or corporeal mime. An intellectual and theoretician, his body training was based in part on what modern dancers call “isolations,” in which body sections move in prescribed sequence. and, in part, on the physics of compensation required to keep the body in balance when the center of gravity is shifted.He is special in drama. He wanted to enlist other students into a mime company, but the acting students were not very interested. When the Vieux Colombier closed in 1924, Decroux taught at the acting school of Charles LESS