Corporeal Mime Theatre Workshops 1979

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Event Corporeal Mime Theatre Workshops 1979
Venue Sculpture Society Studio, The Rocks, Sydney, NSW
First Date October 1979
Last Date November 1979
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere Yes
Description First corporeal-mime classes in Australia.
Corporeal-Mime Introduction Courses. 2 eight week classes and two weekend workshop.
Workshops in Corporeal Theatre given by Elisabeth Burke and Pierre Thibaudeau (ex-students of Etienne Decroux; Pierre ex-cofounder of Mime Omnibus in Montreal) consisted of Corporeal-Mime technique and improvisations.
Also presented two x show and tells to funding bodies and dance companies. From that, the duo were invited to participate in Moving Being at Nimrod.
Description Source Production Company
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Elisabeth Burke Teacher
Pierre Thibaudeau Teacher
Further Information Sydney Corporeal-Mime Theatre became Entr'acte in 1982.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
CV Entr'acte Archives
Entr'acte Archives C001/EPT03, EPT01: Publicity. Hand-written Teaching Lists, Nomenclature, Improvisations, Voice and warmups 1979-99. EPT02: Voice workshops, Typed (2019) lists from originals (especially file CorMim4), workshop games (1979-2001)
Event Identifier 142235
Dataset AusStage