Lecture

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LECTURE 1

Yves Lebreton's
“CORPOREAL THEATRE”
Duration: 2hours

Aware of the urgent need to give life to a new actor for the development of a new theatre, Yves Lebreton points out the central importance of the body within the context of theatrical language and the necessity for promoting the actor’s creative function, with instruments essential to the change in contemporary theatre.
In a journey ranging from theoretic al explanation to practical demonstration, Yves Lebreton delineates the actor’s corporeal-vocal language and presents, outside the framework of the theatre, the expressive sources of the organic reality of the man/actor in all its physical and mental ambivalence: the "Energetic body" and the "Vocal body"

LECTURE 2

Etienne Decroux's
"CORPOREAL MIME"
Duration: 2hours

Apart from any filiation with 19th-century pantomimist tradition, Yves Lebreton re-situates the birth of Etienne Decroux's Corporeal Mime within the historical context of contemporary theatrical research. Lebreton clarifies his sources within the Vieux Colombier school of Jacques Copeau and under the double influence of Edward Gordon Craig and Adolphe Appia. He exposes the method borrowed by Etienne Decroux for elaborating his technique of movement while identifying as being beyond form the principle generators which underlie it. When Etienne Decroux became a legend, he warned against the academic interpretation of his teaching in differentiating poetics and style from the fundamental laws inherent in the subject of body-thought