What is mime ? l Program l Teaching Staff l Diploma l Honorary Committee
Professional Coaching l Master Classes
by Ella Jaroszewicz
|
A Unique Training Program in France
|
Over many years, the art of mime has greatly evolved, from choreographic art to theater and from theater to movement. Mime, which took root in the theater, is the art of movement par excellence and a key discipline in the training of anyone pursuing a career in the performing arts.
An art of movement par excellence, mime constitutes a crucial element in the training of anyone pursuing a career in the performing arts. Knowing how to choose the right gesture and movement for a given dramatic situation is not only a question of literary analysis and understanding of the text, but also the capacity to use the human body as a tool.
|
Since gesture expands the word, making it resonate in space, its choice depends on its virtues, its musicality. You cannot leave it to chance; it must be finely worked in the service of the theater.
"Side-by-side with learning through words, there is learning through gesture”, wrote Antonin Artaud. Like the mind, the body thinks; by liberating the body, the artist achieves oneness.
My teaching program is based on the extensive knowledge gained over numerous years of professional experience. |
|
I've been leading my physical training courses for 25 years: my mime became the International School of Mime Magenia of Paris. Many of the students I've trained work in different areas of the performing arts in France, the United States, Japan, Norway, Spain, Germany, and other countries. I've performed in more than 20 creations across Europe over the past 16 years since I founded my company. My goal is to offer drama-mime training that makes it possible to use the body as a tool of theatrical expression, enhanced by the practice of diverse forms of bodywork that converge with raising awareness in the artist of a new theatrical esthetic. This especially involves achieving gestural efficiency and purity through intensive work aimed at understanding the human body, the specific expressive meaning and potential of each of its parts, and the principles of movement. |
|
You cannot revitalize the performing arts without training new performers endowed with a strong physical dimension. Confronted by these challenges and a changing environment, the Ecole Ella Jaroszewicz offers training whose goal is to produce flexible actor-mimes who master the many languages and expressive potential of the human body as a theatrical tool.
|
Our training program has attracted artists from a variety of performing arts—theater, film, dance, and variety, among others: Kai Mulff (Hollywood), Mark Thompson (Pittsburg), Vivien Savage (France), Emmanuel Seigner (France), Stefan Markusfeld (Autria), Jay Fischer (Canada), Tony Littel (Australia), Xavier Mestres (Spain), Lidia Martinez (Portugal), Denise Namura (Brazil), and Yonezo Abe (Japan). |
|
 |
|
|
Studio Magenia is a government-accredited professional training center.
|
|
 Physical Training
 Stretching, the principles of movement, ballet basics, contemporary dance, barre au sol.
Body architecture (contemporary mime technique) :
 action
feeling
dream
character
Elements and materials, animals.
Movement values (from gestural abundance to gestural purity and efficiency).
|
The Actor's Body
Rehearsing, theater workshop
Improvisation, performance
Merging different approaches to bodywork
Video work
Using gains in body awareness to construct and develop one's own personality.
|
|
Workshops
Creation
Repertory
History
Theatrical fencing
Lap dancing
Acting with the body
Opera and variety
Film
Meetings
Encounters
|
|
|
School of Mime/Physical theatre – Classical dance and barre au sol
With Ella Jaroszewicz
Born in Poland, Choreographic artist in the Wroclaw Opera, Ella Jaroszewicz met Henryk Tomaszewski when he decided to create his Pantomime theatre. With the Polish master, she participated in the creation of a new gestural language that synthesizes the art of mime and the science of choreography.
She became Etoile du Théâtre National Pantomima de Wroclaw, which was to be one of the greatest visual theatres in the world, and has won the gold medal of the Pantomime-Moscow festival, among other prizes.
She has been First Teacher of Mime at the Ecole de Danse de l’Opéra de Parisand taught at Marcel Marceau’s international school of mime, where she introduced dance and acrobatics, creating a link between these disciplines, which had until then been totally separate. Her creations have been acclaimed world-wide.
Co-creator of the Concours International de Mimographie- Paris, she is the founder and director of the Magenia school and company.
All courses in, jazz and contemporary danse, drama, singing and lyrical variety, martial arts are taught by qualified teachers and renowned national and international.
They are part of the teaching staff chosen by Ella Jaroszewicz.
Workshops
History - History of theatar Danse and Mime
Body Training - Original Grotowski Method
Theatrical Fencing and Commedia dellArte
Tomaszewski Method - Original training of mime and dance theatre
Dance Writing - according to Laban method
|
|
|
|
|
Magenia is a two years cycle of studies.
After Two years of training, students can apply to final exam in order to Obtain the: “ Magenia – EUROPEEN ACADEMY OF PHYSICAL THEATRE ” Diploma.
Ella Jaroszewicz - Studio Magenia is the only International Professional School of Mime in France to deliver the Certificate, registered at Level III to the French National Registry of Professional Certifications by government decree gazetted on Feb. 21, 2008.
First-year students can also present themselves before performing arts professionals to obtain a certificate of professional ability.
|
|
|
|
Didier BERNHEIM
President, Maison des Artistes
Jean CARDOT
Académie Française
Maximilien DECROUX
Creating Pedagody – Mime
Bob HEDDLE-ROTH
Fencing master
Guy LARTIGUE
Sculptor
Roman OPALKA
Painter
Georges PILETTA
Principal dancer, Paris Opera Ballet
Yasmine PILETTA
Mime Teacher at the Paris Opera Ballet
Héléna SADOWSKA
International leading artist
Oscar SISTO
Director
Paul TOURENNE
"Frères Jacques"
Pierre VERRY
Mime |
|
|
|
Ella offers coaching and direction for certified actors preparing for roles :
setting,
character,
physical preparation,
character motivation
Staging visual performances :
variety,
cabarets,
events
Media professionals :
attitude,
demeanor,
poise |
Physical preparation for performers and actors with, among others :
Roman POLANSKI
Emmanuelle SEIGNIER (Frantic)
Marpesa DOWN
Georges PILETTA,
Kai WULFF (Hollywood),
Daniel ZAFRANI,
Mime Artist |
|
|
All forms of bodywork within the framework of personalized training programs.
Contact for master class dates and programs.
contact us |
|
