This workshop would be based on Decroux’s method, known as Corporeal Mime. The aim of this theatre method is to express through body the internal ongoing such as thoughts, emotions, doubts, contradictions… Or as Decroux would say, the aim is to make the invisible visible. 

In the workshop we would first focus on technical aspects such as the division of the body, the dissociation and the weight. We would dedicate the first part of the workshop to explain and practise the main aspects of this technique. Always trying to relate it to the interpretation of each one so that technique doesn’t become as a repetition of movements only. Afterwards, we would work on the creation, so to put on stage the internal thoughts, emotions, doubts through the body. For this task we would start with some improvisations so that the students can understand this immediate connection between technique and interpretation. Having finished this improvisation part teachers would draw a path and give inputs to make a little creation which would be shown to the rest of the group in order to conclude the workshop.

Objectives:

-To acquire consciousness of the body (weight, dissociation, division of the body)

-To make the invisible visible (put the inside thoughts/emotions in the physicality)

-Create a little composition