swap_horiz Desmond Jones Alternatives

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Etienne Decroux

Étienne Decroux was a pivotal figure in 20th-century theatre. He pioneered corporeal mime, emphasizing the actor’s physi...

Teacher Classic Stage French

9.3 Excellent

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Jacques Lecoq

Jacques Lecoq developed a unique approach to acting rooted in physical theatre and movement. His intensive training meth...

Teacher Classic Stage French

9.2 Excellent

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Eugenio Barba

Eugenio Barba is an Italian theater director renowned for his pioneering work in Theatre Anthropology. He established Od...

Italian Contemporary Physical Theater Theater Researcher

9.1 Excellent

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Michael Moschen

American performance artist who pioneered contact juggling and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1990 for his innovativ...

Stage American Contemporary Kinetic Sculpture

8.9 Great

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Simon McBurney

British actor and director who co-founded Complicité in London in 1983, building it into an internationally acclaimed ph...

Stage Contemporary British Physical Theater

8.9 Great

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Philippe Gaulier

Philippe Gaulier is a French theater teacher and clown who studied under Jacques Lecoq and founded the École Philippe Ga...

Teacher French Contemporary Clown

8.7 Great

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Gilles Maheu

Canadian theater director and mime who founded Montreal's Carbone 14 company in 1981, pioneering a visceral, image-based...

Stage Contemporary Canadian Ensemble

8.2 Great

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David Glass

British director who founded the David Glass Ensemble in 1988, creating visually striking physical theatre works often d...

Stage Contemporary British Ensemble

7.8 Good

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Guy Caron

Canadian mime and circus educator who trained under Marcel Marceau and co-founded Montreal's National Circus School (Éco...

Teacher Stage Contemporary Canadian

7.8 Good

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Monika Pagneux

Monika Pagneux is a French physical theater teacher and collaborator of both Peter Brook and Jacques Lecoq, whose moveme...

Teacher French Contemporary Movement

7.6 Good

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Ctibor Turba

Czech mime artist and director, a student of Ladislav Fialka, who became a prominent figure in Czech physical theatre an...

Classical Teacher Stage Contemporary

7.5 Good

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Yves Lebreton

Yves Lebreton is a French corporeal mime artist and teacher trained directly by Étienne Decroux, known internationally f...

Teacher Stage French Contemporary

7.4 Good

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Jeff Raz

American clown who performed with Cirque du Soleil and founded the Clown Conservatory at the San Francisco Circus Center...

Teacher Stage American Contemporary

7.3 Good

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Steven Wasson

Steven Wasson is an American corporeal mime artist who trained in the Decroux technique in Paris and has since performed...

Teacher Stage American Contemporary

7.1 Good

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Ronlin Foreman

American mime and physical theatre performer long associated with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, later teaching physical...

Teacher Stage American Contemporary

6.9 Fair

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Paul J. Curtis

American mime who founded the American Mime Theatre in New York City in 1952, developing a codified, non-Marceau approac...

Classical Teacher American 20TH Century

6.7 Fair

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Paul Gaulin

Canadian mime artist and teacher associated with Quebec's physical theater tradition, trained in France and active in sh...

Classical Teacher Stage Contemporary

6.6 Fair

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Bernard Kramer

American mime artist and educator who contributed to the study, teaching, and promotion of mime performance arts in the...

Teacher Stage American Contemporary

6.5 Fair

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Jon Davison

British clown and physical theatre educator trained in the Lecoq tradition, known for academic writing on clown and buff...

Teacher Contemporary British Clown

6.4 Fair

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Janet Carafa

American mime artist and choreographer who contributed to the integration of mime technique with dance and physical thea...

Teacher Stage American Contemporary

6.3 Fair