Leon Chancerel
Leon Chancerel (1886-1965) is an author, actor, French director.
Raise Jacques Copeau as from 1920, with the Théâtre of the Old Dovecote in Paris then within the Copiaus in Burgundy, it starts to write songs and parts.
He works in 1929 with Paul Doncoeur to adapt the precepts of Chip to the road Théâtre. He then appears pioneer of the theater for youth, by melting within the French scouting the company of the road Actors (1929), then the Theater of the Uncle Sebastien (1935), theater for children based on the Commedia dell' arte and the improvisation. In 1937, it opens a dramatic center for youth. In 1957, it created the Association of the theater for childhood and youth (ATEJ).
Translator of Constantin Stanislavski and pioneer of the popular education, it influenced the theater amateur and the methods of training of the actors through the body expression and the improvisation. With its Actors truck driver, it marked the French dramatic reformation, giving birth to the future persons in charge of the first national dramatic centers which are Hubert Gignoux and Maurice Jacquemont. Its teaching was widely diffused before the Second world war thanks to the networks of the scouting and the youth movements.
Quotations
“Clearness, precision and relevance of the analyzes (…) will contribute (…) to place Leon Chancerel at the first rank of the reformers of our theater and the inspirers of our public theater, such as it was created the shortly after the last war” Robert Abirached, foreword of Leon Chancerel, portrait of a reformer of the French theater (1886-1965)
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