Theatre of Movement And Gesture

Jacques Lecoq was probably the most influential theorist and teacher of what is now known as physical theatre. Theatre of Movement and Gesture , published in France in 1987, 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. Lecoq 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. This unique volume also contains: interviews with major theatre practitioners Ariane Mnouchkine and Jean-Louis Barrau< chapters by Jean Perret on Etienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau; a final section by Alain Gautre celebrating the many physical theatre practitioners working in the 1980s; a wealth of illustrations, included previously unpublished photographs from the Lecoq collection. Lecoq's poetic, incisive writings form the backbone of this extraordinary text. The pieces gathered here represent a precious testimony to his special vision of the art of acting and of its close relationship with the history of mime and of masked performance. Jacques Lecoq founded l'Ã0cole Internationale de Thè'tre Jacques Lecoq in 1956, developing teaching methods that have inspired playwrights and 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).Lecoq, Jacques is the author of 'Theatre of Movement And Gesture ', published 2006 under ISBN 9780415359436 and ISBN 0415359430.