Étienne Decroux [SEP] place of death
Étienne Decroux
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. 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 Vieux-Colombier in 1923, as a
portrayals of the circus, fairs and street mimes, or of Marcel Marceau. Rather, he teaches a grammar of the body that analyzes and exercises the interplay of each part of the motion apparatus in interaction with the environment. Thus he is, in the tradition of Henryk Tomaszewski, much closer to the old master of the French pantomime, Étienne Decroux, than his famous disciple Marceau. In contrast to Decroux, however, Brzozowski renounces an excessively large abstraction in the representation.
Awards.
In December 2016, Brzozowski