Research & Scholarship
UBC Dissertation
Relational performance pedagogy: Decroux and Grotowski based innovations in Western Canada.
By Claire Fogal.
UBC Dissertation 2024.
https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0440421
Includes Documentary Films:
Swimming Back to Source
A Canadian father and daughter’s European quest to investigate the roots of their theatrical lineages in Decroux and Grotowski. 2021.
Relational Performance Pedagogy
How four Master Teachers rooted in the theatrical lineages of Decroux and Grotowski have cultivated pedagogical innovation. 2021.
Publications:
(Upcoming 2027) Embodied Action: Women on psychophysical acting, Grotowski-inspired approaches. Edited by Kate Kohler Amory. Routledge.
Chapters:
“Diving In, Getting Wet, Drying Off.” By Claire Fogal and Raïna von Waldenburg.
“Why bother? Linda Putnam’s teaching and the stripdown.” By Kate Kohler Amory and Claire Fogal
« Les évolutions de Decroux et de Grotowski dans la pédagogie théâtrale de l’Ouest du Canada. » Percées – Explorations en arts vivants (auparavant L’Annuaire théâtral), Numéro : Pédagogies et pratiques artistiques, Carole Marceau et Marie-Eve Skelling Desmeules, éditrices, No 3, Printemps 2020.
https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/percees/2020-n3-percees05983/1076685ar/
“Relational performance pedagogy: North American innovations in the lineages of Decroux and Grotowski.” By Claire Fogal. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Special Issue: Performance Training and Well-Being, Virginie Magnat and Nathalie Gauthard editors, Issue 13.2, June 2022. (Includes access to my film Relational Performance Pedagogy.)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19443927.2022.2066294
“Five Tools: A Corporeal Mime Perspective on the Roots of Expression in the Body.” By Dean Fogal and Claire Fogal in Theatre Research in Canada Vol 46 No 2.
The Mime Handbook. Post-translation editor for the new English edition of Frits Vogels and Amos de Haas’ 1994 book in Dutch detailing Decroux’s Corporeal Mime technique. Amsterdam University Press, June 2022.
“Experiencing Resonance as a Practice of Ritual Engagement.” Contribution to collaborative braided chapter initiated by Virginie Magnat for Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing through Indigenous Relationships. Shawn Wilson, Andrea V. Breen, Lindsay Dupre Eds. Canadian Scholars, Fall 2019.
https://canadianscholars.ca/book/research-and-reconciliation/
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2026: Corporeal Mime Research with Daniel Lomas and Paul Rowe, in Vancouver.
2015, 2018: Corporeal Mime Research with my father, senior Decroux-based theatre artist Dean Fogal, and Paul Rowe; developing kinespheric movement pedagogy, in Vancouver.
2018: Hosted and filmed Participatory Research week with four senior physical theatre artists, Dean Fogal, Linda Putnam, David MacMurray Smith, and Kathleen Weiss, at UBC.
2018: Hosted Colleagues Circle with 15 fellow artist/teachers at the Dorothy Somerset Theatre, UBC.
2018: Co-produced and Filmed 3-day Rivers Masterclass taught by Putnam, Fogal and MacMurray Smith at the Frederic Wood Theatre, UBC.
2017: conducted archival research with Dean Fogal to review the Decroux archives at the Bibliotèque Nationale in Paris, the Grotowski archives at IMEC in Caen, and the Odin Theatre archives in Hostelbro, Denmark.
2017: Conducted and filmed interviews with Frits Vogels, Ide van Heiningen (senior Decroux-based artists in Amsterdam), Won Kim (Artistic Director of Pas de Dieux in Paris), Mark Piper (former Artistic Director of Theatre Royal, Windsor), Thomas and Sally Leabhart and Robert Sucher (Decroux scholars in Los Angeles), and Vernice Klier (Decroux-trained acting coach of Juliette Binoche in Paris).