De Kleine Academie is an atypical international school, very different from conventional theatre schools. It extends and develops the principles and teaching method of Jacques Lecoq. In De Kleine Academie the students’ own creative personality is central. In the first year in particular, students are given ample opportunity to discover and explore their own creativity and learn how to make best use of it. De Kleine Academie is not based on existing repertory theatre. Its point of departure is silent observation: learning to look afresh, in patient wonder, at the movement of life itself. Meticulous observation and then the pleasure of imitation, of re-enacting in movement, in the silence before or beyond words: human behaviour, animal behaviour, the nature of materials and the elements, of colours and sounds, of the circle, the square and the triangle...

And then the encounter with Theatre, throughout its history, not as a museum, but as an exemplary school for the creation of original work.