Etienne Decroux (Routledge Performance Practitioners) by Thomas Leabhart
By Thomas Leabhart
Routledge functionality Practitioners is a sequence of introductory courses to the foremost theatre-makers of the final century. each one quantity explains the heritage to and the paintings of 1 of the key affects on 20th- and twenty-first-century performance.
These compact, well-illustrated and obviously written books will resolve the contribution of recent theatre's such a lot charismatic innovators. Etienne Decroux is the 1st ebook to combine:
- an evaluation of Decroux's lifestyles and paintings
- an research of Decroux's "Words on Mime", the 1st e-book to be written approximately this artwork
- a sequence of sensible workouts delivering an creation to corporeal mime procedure.
As a primary step in the direction of serious knowing, and as an preliminary exploration sooner than happening to extra, fundamental examine, Routledge functionality Practitioners are unbeatable worth for cutting-edge student.
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