Elke Luyten

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Date:
April 7, 2007
Time:
2:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Venue:
The Watermill Center
Elke Luyten

A one-hour lecture/demonstration for adults. Elke and her colleague, Kira Alker, will perform some of the Decroux technique, show some video footage of Decroux and Thomas Leabhart, and show a selection from Elke’s contemporary piece Happy Songs for Sad Days.

About Corporeal Mime
Developed by Etienne Decroux (1898-1991) in the early twentieth century, Corporeal Mime is one of the only codified theatre forms that exists in the western world. With a specific and unique vocabulary for the articulation of the body, the Corporeal Mime actor strives to embody thought. Singing the movements of the soul with the muscles of the body, the actor reveals a profound and universal inner conflict. Nonetheless, the drama expressed in Corporeal Mime is decidedly non-situational and nonlinear: there is no plot, no sequence of events and no character portrayed. Thoroughly modern, reactionary, and revolutionary, the actor succeeds the playwright in this new form of theatre.

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