When theatre meets childhood
Contributions of the Children's School to the actor's pedagogy at the École du Vieux-Colombier
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2237-5864.2021.32946Keywords:
Theatrical pedagogy., Jacques Copeau, Suzanne Bing, Acting, Maria MontessoriAbstract
Between 1917 and 1919, the Vieux-Colombier Theatre moved to New York's Garrick Theatre where they staged more than forty plays in French over two theatre seasons. If the aesthetics of the bare stage is finally accomplished in NYC, the period also gave rise to one of the fundamental experiments in the pedagogical aspect that was later exploited at the École du Vieux-Colombier, in Paris. Prompted by Jacques Copeau, Suzanne Bing, actress and main figure of the Vieux-Colombier’s pedagogical axis, became involved as pedagogue and researcher at the Children's School, a Montessorian school founded by Margareth Naumburg in NYC. This article aims to show how, through Bing's involvement in this children's school, it is the theatre itself that becomes an apprentice.
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