The Moving Body (le Corps Poetique): Teaching Creative Theatre (Performance Books) - Softcover

Jacques Lecoq

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408111462 ISBN 13: 9781408111468

Publisher: Methuen Drama, 2009

Synopsis

'In life I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq.
Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. The International Theatre School he founded in Paris remains an unrivalled centre for the art of physical theatre. In The Moving Body, Lecoq shares his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement and gesture which together form one of the greatest influences on contemporary theatre. Neutral mask, character mask, and counter masks, bouffons, acrobatics and commedia, clowns and complicity: all the famous Lecoq techniques are covered here - techniques that have made their way into the work of former collaborators and students inluding Dario Fo, Julie Taymor, Ariane Mnouchkine, Yasmina Reza and Theatre de Complicite. This paperback edition contains a Foreword by Simon McBurney, Artistic Director of Complicite and an Afterword by Fay Lecoq, Director of the International Theatre School in Paris.

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Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. The International Theatre School he founded in Paris remains an unrivalled centre for the art of physical theatre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1408111462
• ISBN 13: 9781408111468
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192