biography
| name: |
Decroux, Etienne-Marcel
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pronunciation:
[duhkroo]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1898–1991)
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| biography:
| French actor and mime. A pupil and collaborator of Charles Dullin (1885–1949), he was the first to develop a systematic language of physical expression, which led to the 20th-c revival of mime. In 1940 he opened a school in Paris, and from 1941 onwards toured extensively, both teaching and performing. His pupils and followers included Barrault and Marceau. He became a teacher of mime at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt and then worked at the Cabaret Fontaine des Quatre Saisons, both in Paris. He was the author of Paroles sur le Mime (1963). |
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