01/07/2026
🚨WORKSHOP SPOTS ADDED 🚨After a sold out first session of DECROUX & GROTOWSKI led by Selma Trevino we are adding an ADDITIONAL workshop Jan 11 @ 3:00 PM
This is an Encore Workshop! We are offering this second session after selling out the first. Encore Workshops must reach a minimum of 7-8 students. We will confirm that it will run via email by 24h prior to the workshop, latest.
This workshop begins with a warm welcome and a brief introduction to the legacies of Étienne Decroux and Jerzy Grotowski. We awaken the body through Decroux’s Figures of Style—the Eagle, Position 0–1, and the Eiffel Tower—followed by Grotowski’s Plastics, exploring fluid movement led by different body parts. We then dive into Decroux’s Scales, working precise articulations of the head, neck, chest, waist, pelvis, and ankles to counterbalance the freedom of Plastics. These principles merge in dynamic walking sequences across the space. The session culminates in solo or duo improvisations on the theme “to be,” ending with an open Q&A.
Selma Trevino is a New York–based performer, choreographer, educator, and Artistic Director of Corporeal Arts Incorporated. With over thirty years of experience, her work connects Étienne Decroux’s Corporeal Mime, physical theatre, contemporary movement, and intercultural performance practices. She holds an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU and a B.A. in Theatre from UNICAMP in Brazil.
Trevino’s international career spans performance, research, and extensive training in Corporeal Mime, Grotowski-based practices, Afro-Brazilian dance, Pilates, and yoga. Her work has appeared at PhysFestNYC, Triskelion Arts, Green Space, Dixon Place, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Metropolitan Opera, and venues in Brazil. She teaches at Columbia University, curates for PhysFestNYC and Green Space’s D.I.G. Residency, and continues creating original work exploring embodiment, memory, and hybrid performance vocabularies.
