This thesis discusses the life and work of Etienne Decroux, one of France's most important reformers of the theater and his method of Le Mime Corporel, which still forms the basis of modern pantomime. Decroux is known worldwide as an excellent mime, director, teacher, theorist and reformer of the theater. His contribution to the development of the European theater in the last century is very significant, especially for mime theatre. The work presents Decroux's personality and his contribution to the creation of the new method of mime theatre - Le Mime Corporel. Another task of this thesis is to explore the effects of different important personalities in the artistic development of Etienne Decroux, to describe the basic elements forming the method Le Mime Corporel and to compare it to other genres of movement theater.

Master’s dissertation about Teaching of mime in Slovakia is logical sequel to my bachelor’s studies dissertation about Festival PAN. The dissertation begins with a brief summary of some major slovak mimes and a new generation growing up at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. After pointing out the diversity and vitality of slovak mime scene dissertation passes to the standing of mime art in slovak school system, compares it with czech school system and ends with chapter about the Association of professional mimes of Slovakia. My sources were mainly interviews with slovak mimes and pedagogues of basic art schools, conservatories and Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and the official documents of Slovak and Czech Republic concerning art education. My inspiration was the founding of AMIS association and festival PAN Art, both of which shift the perception of mime closer to mime of today. With my education, which I acquired on Academy in Prague and my experience in art and pedagogy I am an active member of the association and I act as judge at the PAN Art festival and my goal as well as goal of this dissertation is to provide a new perspective in the view of slovak mime and it’s teaching methods.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to employ a theatrological approach to the work of one of the most original and influential Czech pantomime troupes of all time, entitled Pantomima Alfreda Jarryho (the Alfred Jarry Pantomime, AJP). The company was established in 1966 in Prague by two young mime artists Boris Hybner and Ctibor Turba and existed as late as the political liquidation of the troupe in 1972 that came due to the process of the so-called normalization period in the former Czechoslovakia. The thesis consists of four major parts that are divided into several subsections. The first part deals with the historical contexts of the art of mime, both international and domestic. The AJP troupe represents the second generation of Czech pantomime that refused the style of the so-called modern pantomime expressed in the international context by Marcel Marceau and in the Czech context by Ladislav Fialka at the Theatre Na zábradlí (Theatre on the Balustrade). Since there is no monograph strictly based on this theatre, although it played a major role among the newly established small theatres in the sixties (and had an important influence on the poetics of the AJP troupe), we briefly introduce the poetics of both the pantomime company led by Fialka and the drama company led by the director Jan Grossman,...