The Decroux Café is a yearly event, that started in 2019 in collaboration between the Lectorate and the Mime bachelor program, where Marijn de Langen interviews ex-students of French mime Etienne Decroux who are working and living in the Netherlands. Through these interviews the legacy of Decroux and the impact of his mime corporel on the Dutch field, as well as the Dutch twists to this specific heritage are being mapped out and questioned. In what ways is the mime corporel technique, developed from the 1950’s on in Paris, relevant for contemporary students of the ATD? Which questions do the students have? The interviews take place in a café setting in the ATD, created by  third year students of the Mime ba, as part of their research project week ‘Decroux Lab’. Each interview is filmed by Jaqcueline van Vught: the films are part of the Mime ba curriculum.

 Sofar eight ex-students of Etienne Decroux have been interviewed by Marijn: Frits Vogels, Geraldine Brans, Luc Boyer, Irene Schaltegger, Yolande Bertsch, William Dashwood, Jan Taks and Anja Saunders. In some of the interviews younger mime performers acted as respondents in the conversation: Fleur van den Berg, Fabian Santarciel, Floor van Leeuwen, Jochem Stavenuiter and Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti.

To see the interviews please visit mimearchieven.nl/Interviews-video