The Moving Body: Teaching Creative Theatre

by Carasso,Jean-Gabriel

• ISBN13: 9780878301416
• ISBN10: 0878301410
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-01-11
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

Translated into English for the first time, this guide details Lecoq's unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement, and gesture. Neutral mask, character masks, and other famous Lecoq techniques are included.

Author Biography

Jacques Lecoq was born in Paris in 1921. He taught until the day before his death in 1999 David Bradby is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is a director, translator, and the author of, among other books, Mise en scene: French Theatre Now

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Simon McBurney
Biographical Note	xi
Bibliography & Filmography	xii
Translator's note	xiii
I PERSONAL JOURNEY	1	(24)
From Sport to Theatre	3	(11)
Italian adventure	6	(2)
Back to Paris	8	(1)
A school in motion	9	(3)
Finding a place	12	(2)
The Educational Journey	14	(11)
Towards a young theatre of new work	18	(3)
The search for permanency	21	(4)
II THE WORLD AND ITS MOVEMENTS	25	(70)
A Blank Page	27	(2)
Improvisation	29	(37)
Silence Before Words	29	(7)
Replay and play	29	(4)
Towards the structures of play	33	(3)
The Neutral Mask	36	(10)
Neutrality	36	(5)
The fundamental journey	41	(1)
Identification with the natural world	42	(2)
Transposing	44	(2)
Approach to the Arts	46	(6)
The universal poetic sense	46	(1)
The colours of the rainbow	47	(2)
The body of words	49	(2)
Music as partner	51	(1)
Masks and Counter-masks	52	(8)
Levels of acting	52	(4)
Entering into the form	56	(4)
Characters	60	(6)
States, passions, feelings	60	(2)
Place and milieu	62	(2)
Stylistic constraints	64	(2)
Movement Technique	66	(25)
Physical and Vocal Preparation	66	(4)
Giving meaning to movement	66	(4)
Dramatic Acrobatics	70	(1)
The body's limits	70	(1)
Movement Analysis	71	(20)
The foundation: natural everyday movements	71	(5)
Bringing out attitudes	76	(1)
Researching the economy of physical actions	77	(6)
Analysing the dynamics of nature	83	(4)
Studying animals	87	(2)
The laws of motion	89	(2)
The Students' Own Theatre	91	(4)
Auto-cours and investigations	91	(4)
III THE ROADS TO CREATIVITY	95	(64)
Geodramatics	97	(3)
Gestural Languages	100	(5)
From pantomine to cartoon mime	100	(5)
The Main Dramatic Territories	105	(50)
Melodrama	105	(3)
Grand emotions	105	(3)
Commedia dell'arte	108	(9)
The human comedy	108	(4)
Scenarios and strategic play	112	(5)
Bouffons	117	(9)
Mystery, the grotesque and the fantastic	117	(6)
A different body	123	(3)
Tragedy	126	(17)
Chorus and hero	126	(6)
A balanced stage	132	(5)
The necessity of text	137	(6)
Clowns	143	(12)
Finding one's own clown	143	(8)
Comic varieties: the burlesque, the absurd	151	(4)
The Laboratory for the Study of Movement (L.E.M.)	155	(4)
IV NEW PERSPECTIVES	159	(5)
Glossary	164