Trident is offering workshops open to everyone who is interested in Corporeal Mime and Physical Theatre.
Teaching in three locations in Belgium, Trident introduces students to the vision of training the body towards physical theatre or movement theatre.
Trident teaches Etienne Decroux's Corporeal Mime technique, and aims to develop the student into a genuine 'movement actor'. The movement actor uses the human body as the primary instrument of expression.
To achieve this, students are focusing first on body conditioning through exercises in stretching, breathing, flexibility and body alignment. At the same time, the student re-learns how the body operates: this helps the performer stay in shape, improve his performance and stamina, build up self-confidence and lengthen his performing career.
Trident surrounds this process of body conditioning with Decroux's extensive grammar of movement: the stunning precision of the complete expression of body and spirit can have a dramatic effect on the connection with the audience. Resistance in movement, power and counter-power, 'le contrepoids', always plays a central role in Corporeal Mime and at the same time is one of the essential differences with between dramatic movement and dance. As such, corporeal mime forms the basis for 'the movement actor'.
As the actor progresses, his study of movement evolves into a renewed consciousness of body movement, allowing him to access this depth of dramatic expression in all areas and on any occasion.
