Moving Body Teaching Creative Theatre

Name: Moving Body Teaching Creative Theatre
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ISBN: 9780878301416

ISBN-10: 0878301410

ISBN-13: 9780878301416

Edition: 2002

Authors: Jacques Lecoq, Jean-Gabriel Carasso, Jean-Claude Lallias, Simon McBurney

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This work presents the philosophy and teaching methods of Jacques Lecoq, founder of the world-famous International Mime and Theatre School. Lecoq sets out his unique architecture of the body in space and explains his most famous techniques.

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 1/11/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Foreword



Biographical Note


Bibliography and Filmography


Translator's note



Personal Journey


From Sport to Theatre


Italian adventure


Back to Paris


A School in motion


Finding a place


The Educational Journey


Towards a young theatre of new work


The search for permanency



The World and Its Movements


A Blank Page



Improvisation


Silence Before Words


Replay and play


Towards the structures of play


The Neutral Mask


Neutrality


The fundamental journey


Identification with the natural world


Transposing


Approach to the Arts


The universal poetic sense


The colours of the rainbow


The body of words


Music as partner


Masks and Counter-masks


Levels of acting


Entering into the form


Characters


States, passions, feelings


Place and milieu


Stylistic constraints



Movement Technique


Physical and Vocal Preparation


Giving meaning to movement


Dramatic Acrobatics


The body's limits


Movement Analysis


The foundation: natural everyday movements


Bringing out attitudes


Researching the economy of physical actions


Analysing the dynamics of nature


Studying animals


The laws of motion



The Students' Own Theatre


Auto-cours and investigations



The Roads to Creativity


Geodramatics



Gestural Languages


From pantomime to cartoon mime



The Main Dramatic Territories


Melodrama


Grand emotions


Commedia dell'arte


The human comedy


Scenarios and strategic play


Bouffons


Mystery, the grotesque and the fantastic


A different body


Tragedy


Chorus and hero


A balanced stage


The necessity of text


Clowns


Finding one's own clown


Comic varieties: the burlesque, the absurd



The Laboratory for the Study of Movement (L.E.M.)



New Perspectives


Glossary