The Antwerp Mime Studio guarantees a unique, professionally oriented training in physical – mimical theatre which is unmatched in Belgiumand far beyond. Unique because the training is based on a specifictraining concept and because it is one of the few places where one can be taught in the Mime Corporel from Etienne Decroux. After several periods of study abroad – among others, a long study with Etienne Decroux a training at the Ecole Nationale de Cirque in Paris – Jan Ruts, a trained social psychologist, returned to Belgium in 1975. He found that therewas a big gap when it came to dramatic movement language and he took the initiative of establishing a studio where interested people could became skilled in modern mime art and related disciplines. Herman Verbeek, who had also studied with Etienne Decroux for a long time, stepped into the project with a dynamic training as counterpart to the somewhat static movement language of Decroux. In order to avoid a sheer gymnastic training, Jan Ruts quickly completed the whole with an actors-training based on psychic skills and also with intensive play and improvisation trainings which gave the studio its typical and rather unique training concept. Additional trainings in acrobatics, modern dance, non-verbal use of the voice and others broaden the pretty intense approach which enables the participants to develop towards various artistic genres and working fields.