Moving Body (Le Corps Poétique)

<p>'<i>In life I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists</i>' Jacques Lecoq <p/>Jacques 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. <p/>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. <p/>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.</p>