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Étienne Decroux
French actor (1898–1991)
Étienne Decroux | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1898-07-19)19 July 1898 Paris, France |
| Died | 12 March 1991(1991-03-12) (aged 92) Boulogne-Billancourt, France |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1932–1968 |
Étienne Decroux (19 July 1898 in Paris, France – 12 March 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France) was a French actor who studied at Jacques Copeau's École du Vieux-Colombier, where he saw the beginnings of what was to become his life's obsession–corporeal mime.[1][2] During his long career as a film and theatre actor, he created many pieces, using the human body as the primary means of expression.
Career
Enrolled at the Théâtre du 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"