The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique) Av Jacques Lecoq

''<i>In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists</i>'' Jacques LecoqJacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. In <i>The Moving Bod</i>y, he shares with us first-hand 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, <i>bouffons</i>, acrobatics, <i>commedia</i>, clowns and complicity: all the famous Lecoq techniques are covered in this book - techniques that have made their way into the work of former collaborators and students including Dario Fo, Ariane Mnouchkine, Yasmina Reza and Theatre de Complicite. The book contains a foreword by Simon McBurney, a critical introduction by Mark Evans and an afterword by Fay Lecoq, Director of the International Theatre School in Paris.