Mime denken: Nederlandse mime als manier van denken in en door de theaterpraktijk ; Dutch mime: a distinct mode of thought in theatre practice

In this thesis Marijn de Langen details the development of modern Dutch mime, a performative practice that took shape in the 1960s and made a radical break with the traditional mime/pantomime idiom under the direct influence of the French mime innovator Etienne Decroux. It was in Paris of the 1930s that Decroux first developed corporeal mime, a modernist interpretation of the genre that went on to gain an international following. Among them were the Dutch students of Decroux who worked under him in Paris in the 1950s and 60s and brought corporeal mime back to the Netherlands, where, in their o... Mehr ...