Adolphe Appia, le visionnaire de l'invisible
Louis Mouchet
1988 - 40 min - 16 mm - Couleur - Suisse

Adolphe Appia was in many ways a visionary, the originator of the most profound agitations in today's theater. His drawings reveal the different stages of his artistic evolution, each marked by the constant preoccupation of liberating the body.
His rejection of a listless theater draw him to Wagner. He carried out a revolution there, where the master lacked perfection, on the stage itself. By substituting painted decors for luminous projectors, Appia invented theatrical space in which the actor could evolve with great liberty.
The discovery of rhythmic allowed him to further deepen its reform. The collaboration with Dalcroze reached an end with the Hellerau experience (1911-1914), an unique example of an ensemble entirely conceived to put the human body in the limelight.