In 1948, he left France for Italy where he stayed for eight years. Invited by the University Theater in Padou, he taught movement to the troupe and created his first mime shows. While in Padou, he discovered the origins of the Commedia dell'arte in the markets of the town.

In Milan, at the request of G. Strehler and P. Grassi, he created his school of the Piccolo Theater.

Throughout Italy, he developed his ideas of mime adapted to theater, political revues and contemporary music in collaboration with Luciano Berio and other musicians.

He discovered the dynamics of the chorus by choreographing several Greek tragedy plays at Syracusa in Sicily.

He collaborated with Jean Vilar, director of the Théâtre Nationale Populaire, the Comédie Française, the Schiller Theatre in Berlin and produced and directed a series of 26 silent comic films call "La Belle Equipe" with the actors from his school.

In 1969, he became a teacher at the Architectural School (U.P.6.) in Paris and created a Laboratory of dramatic study of movement and architecture.

He regularly gave professional summer workshops in France and abroad on the following subjects:

• commedia dell'arte
• clown and buffoon
• Greek tragedy
• mime and theatre
• buffoon and tragedy

It explores different dramatic territories, rediscovering the tradition in today's sensitivity, referring to great forms of theatre of the past, such as the comedia dell'arte and Greek tragedy, which offer a dimension of play indispensable to the actor. He considers mime as the school for the actor and the actor as an author who must find his own style.

Being a school of movement, it helps the actors to discover rules of theatrical play through tactical improvisation on all levels (from realism to abstraction) making the actor ready and open for the event of a given situation, a gesture, a word, provoking his imagination to invent a new form of language.

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