PhysFestNYC Workshop: Corporeal Mime of Etienne Decroux by Selma Trevino

Corporeal Mime of Etienne Decroux by Selma Trevino

In this workshop students will experience exercises from Decroux’s technique and learn how to amplify the awareness of the articulations of the body and its combinations. With exercises ranging from the isolation of body parts to movement compositions, the form trains the body to articulate precisely, while moving and creating with elements like fixed points, precarious balance, diverse dynamics, levels, and directions. Etienne Decroux, a French man, considered the “Father of Modern Mime” developed an extensive technique to train the body of the performer. Among his students was Marcel Marceau.

Selma Trevino is a Brazilian performer/choreographer/artistic director and co-founder of Corporeal Arts Incorporated (CAI), New York. Selma is a researcher artist in the Dance-Theater field, specialized in Corporeal Mime Technique of Etienne Decroux, in California and Paris. Her work is also informed by different movement techniques such as Flamenco Dance, Afro-Brazilian dances, Grotowski's Plastic exercises. Her work is a constant investigation about the body expressivity in training and performance. Selma holds a BA in Theater Arts from UNICAMP, Brazil (1992)and a MA in Performance Studies from NYU (2009).

Founded in 2001 by Selma and William Treviño, Corporeal Arts Incorporated is a non-profit physical theatre company dedicated to adapting and creating new works from non-dramatic sources. They use corporeal arts (forms that are primarily expressed through the body—such as mime, martial arts, and dance) to devise physically engaging theatre performances.

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PhysFestNYC is a community-focused festival that celebrates, enriches, and envisions our field of physical theaters. As an annual gathering, provides space for practitioners, audiences, and the physical-theater-curious to share in presented works, diverse workshop offerings, and community-building events.

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