You may join a team of students and young theatre professionals from many parts of the globe who will be participating in the Seahorse Project.

The Seahorse Project is supported by the French Ministry of Culture, University of Paris - St. Denis, ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology) and Association Hippocampe.

This project will welcome participants who have a proven interest and ability in physical theatre, and who can devote at least 20 hours per week (for a minimum of one month) to an intensive experience learning and creating in the language of Corporeal Mime.

Corporeal Mime was created by French theatre innovator Etienne Decroux (1889 - 1991), "perhaps the only European master to have elaborated a system of rules comperable to that of an Oriental tradition...."(Eugenio Barba)

Students will learn scales, figures of style, counterweights, walks, repertoire, and improvisation and creation techniques. In addition, they will begin the creation of an individual composition which could become a part of a larger creation in an end of semester presentation.

Directed by Thomas Leabhart (USA, Pomona College Professor of Theatre) and Luis Torreao (Brazil, Association Hippocampe), The Seahorse Project staff will include young theatre professionals from France, Belgium, Singapore, Japan, Brazil and the USA.

Thomas Leabhart, student of Etienne Decroux from 1968 - 1972, is Professor of Theatre and Resident Artist at Pomona College, and member of the Artistic Staff of ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology). He performs and teaches regularly in France, and has performed and taught workshops at the Museum of Design in Zurich, The Austrian Theatre Museum in Vienna, the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka, the American Center in Montevideo, Movement Theatre International in Philadelphia, and many other venues. Editor of Mime Journal, he has authored thirty articles and Modern and Post Modern Mime (Macmillan in London and St. Martin's Press, NYC). .

Classes will be held at Théâtre de la Danse, 77 rue de Charonne, Paris 75011.
For further information, please write: tleabhart@pomona.edu
or ltorreao@hotmail.com
telephone (909) 607 - 4381 (USA)
or 33. 1. 43. 55. 47. 49 (France)