Theatre of Movement and Gesture

by Jacques Lecoq, Joel Anderson (Translator), D Bradby (Translator), Luke Kernaghan (Translator), DICK MCCAW (Translator)

Overview

Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. Interviews with major theatre practitioners Ariane Mnouchkine and Jean-Louis Barrault by Jean Perret, together with chapters by Perret on Étienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau, fill out the historical material written by Lecoq, and a final section by Alain Gautré celebrates the many physical theatre practitioners working in the 1980s.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415359443
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/25/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jacques Lecoq founded l’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in 1956, developing teaching methods that have inspired numerous practitioners of physical theatre, in which gesture is at the basis of the performance. David Bradby is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was the translator of Jacques Lecoq’s The Moving Body (Methuen, 2000).

Table of Contents

1 Imitation: from mimicry to miming 2 The gestures of life 3 From pantomime to modern mime 4 Has mime become separated from theatre? 5 Mime, the art of movement 6 The explosion of mime 7 The theatre of gesture and image

Editorial Reviews

"...this is an important addition to the growing body of scholarship treating Lecoq's work, and any student of 20th-century theatre or the use of movement in performance will find this book invaluable." —TDR

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