The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq

by Mark Evans (Editor), Rick Kemp (Editor)

Overview

The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq presents a thorough overview and analysis of Jacques Lecoq's life, work and philosophy of theatre. Through an exemplary collection of specially commissioned chapters from leading writers, specialists and practitioners, it draws together writings and reflections on his pedagogy, his practice, and his influence on the wider theatrical environment. It is a comprehensive guide to the work and legacy of one of the major figures of Western theatre in the second half of the twentieth century. In a four-part structure over fifty chapters, the book examines:

• The historical, artistic and social context out of which Lecoq's work and pedagogy arose, and its relation to such figures as Jacques Copeau, Antonin Artaud, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Dario Fo.

• Core themes of Lecoq's International School of Theatre, such as movement, play, improvisation, masks, language, comedy, and tragedy, investigated by former teachers and graduates of the School.

• The significance and value of his pedagogical approaches in the context of contemporary theatre practices.

• The diaspora of performance practice from the School, from the perspective of many of the most prominent artists themselves.

This is an important and authoritative guide for anyone interested in Lecoq's work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317594628
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/13/2016
Series:	Routledge Companions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	444
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

Mark Evans is Professor of Theatre Training and Education and Associate Dean (Student Experience) in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Coventry University. His research focuses on the work of Jacques Copeau, Jacques Lecoq and movement training for the modern actor. He recently edited The Actor Training Reader (Routledge, 2015) and is an Associate Editor of the Theatre, Dance and Performance Training journal.

Rick Kemp is Head of Acting and Directing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and the author of Embodied Acting (Routledge 2012). He has worked internationally as an actor and director with companies and theatres such as Commotion, Complicite, Almeida, Teatr Polski and the Bouffes du Nord.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Geoffrey Rush

General Introduction

Mark Evans and Rick Kemp

Part I

Influences and Antecedents

Introduction

Mark Evans

1. The French Theatrical Avant Garde

Nigel Ward (UK)

2. Mime, ‘Mimes’ and Miming

Vivian Appler (US)

3. The Rediscovery of the Mask

Gillian Arrighi (AUS)

4. Jacques Lecoq and the Challenge of Modernist Theatre, 1945-1968

Bruce McConachie (US)

5. Jacques Lecoq and the Studio Tradition

Tom Cornford (UK)

6. Bachelard, Jousse and Lecoq

Claudia Sachs (BRA)

7. Space and Mimesis

Jon Foley Sherman (US)

8. Movement Made Visible: Marey and Lecoq

Clare Brennan (UK)

9. Literature, Lecoq and the ‘nouveau roman’

Pardis Dabashi (US)

10. The Body Voice of Satire: Jacques Lecoq and Dario Fo

Gloria Pastorino (US)

Part II

Inspirations and Evolutions

Introduction

Rick Kemp

11. The Influence of Sports on Jacques Lecoq’s Actor Training

Mark Evans (UK)

12. What Works and What Doesn’t Work: On Play

Paola Coletto (IT/US) and Jennifer Buckley (US)

13. Neutral Mask - A Life’s Journey

Dody DiSanto (US)

14. The Mimo-dynamics of Music, Poetry, and Short Story: Lecoq on Bartók

Jennie Gilrain (US)

15. Full Face Masks, Pantomime Blanche and Cartoon Mime

David Gaines (US)

16. Commedia Dell’Arte and Comedie Humaine

Giovanni Fusetti (IT)

17. The Chorus

Shona Morris (UK)

18. Bouffons and the Grotesque

Bim Mason (UK)

19. Auto-cours, Enquetes, Commandes: A Practitioner’s Perspective

Carlos García Estévez (ES)

20. Lecoq's Clown and its Application to Playing Shakespeare's Clowns

Sara Romersberger (US)

21. Laboratory of Movement Study

Ismael Scheffler (BRA)

Part III

Ricochets and reverberations

Introduction

Mark Evans

22. Lecoq, Emotion and Embodied Cognition

Rick Kemp (UK/US)

23. The Juggernaut and the Pram: Lecoq and UK Actor Training

Vladimir Mirodan (UK)

24. Moving Medicine

Suzy Willson (UK)

25. British Movement Directors

Ayse Tashkiran (UK)

26. Contemporary Circus

Mitch Mitchelson (UK)

27. Lecoq Training and Asian Theatre Practice

Maya Tångeberg-Grischin and Anna Thuring (SWE)

28. Locating the Body in English Language Teaching

Nikole Pascetta (CAN)

29. Language and the Body

Maiya Murphy (US)

30. Lecoq and Shakespeare

Darren Tunstall (UK)

31. Le Jeu and the Journey of a People

Susan Knutson (CAN) and Normand Godin (CAN)

32. Lecoq and Architecture

Laura Gioeni (IT)

33. Dear Jacques... Lecoq in the Twenty First Century

Simon Murray (UK)

Part IV

Voyages and Diaspora

Introduction

Rick Kemp

34. Jacques Lecoq, Ariane Mnouchkine and le Théâtre du Soleil

Helen Richardson (US)

35. The Magic Flute and L’École Jacques Lecoq

Simon McBurney (UK), William Kentridge (SA) and Catherine Alexander (UK)

36. Lecoq and Complicite

Richard Cuming (UK)

37. Theatre Ad Infinitum and Jacques Lecoq

Vanessa Ackerman (UK)

38. Lecoq Practitioners in the UK

Emily Kreider (UK)

39. The Actor/Creator and Three American Ensembles

Susan Thompson (US)

40. Pig Iron: Disponibilité and Observation

Quinn Bauriedel (US)

41. The Toronto Connection

Martin Julien (CAN)

42. La Mancha Theatre Company and School - Chile

Ellie Nixon (UK)

43. From Paris to Cape Town: Lecoq and Magnet Theatre

Jennie Reznek (SA) and Mark Fleishman (SA)

44. Clown – Trial by Errors

Rick Kemp (UK/US)

45. Lecoq and Film

Mark Evans (UK)