Copeau/Decroux, Irving/Craig: A Search for 20th Century Mime, Mask & Marionette (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies) - Softcover

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Leabhart, Thomas

 
9781032071916: Copeau/Decroux, Irving/Craig: A Search for 20th Century Mime, Mask & Marionette (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1032071915 ISBN 13: 9781032071916
Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

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.

These essays will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners in theatre and performance studies.

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About the Author

Thomas Leabhart, Professor of Theatre at Pomona College, California, worked with Etienne Decroux from 1968–72. He authored Modern and Post-Modern Mime (Macmillan, 1989), Etienne Decroux (Routledge, 2019) and co-edited (with Franc Chamberlain) The Decroux Sourcebook (Routledge, 2008). Leabhart edits Mime Journal, and for a decade participated as Artistic Staff at Eugenio Barba's ISTA meetings.

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Routledge
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032071915
ISBN 13 
9781032071916
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
184

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