The Moving Body: Le Corps Poétique: Teaching Creative Theatre
LECOQ, Jacques
2009
Autor(es): LECOQ, Jacques
Título: The Moving Body: Le Corps Poétique: Teaching Creative Theatre
Publicação: Soho: Methuen Drama, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-408-11146-8
Assunto(s):
LECOQ, Jacques (1921-1999) -- França
Teatro -- Manuais
Índice | Table of Contents | Table des Matières
Foreword by Simon McBurney - ix
Biographical Note - xi
Bibliography & Filmography - xii
Translator's note - xiv
I PERSONAL JOURNEY - 1
1. From Sport to Theatre - 3
Italian adventure - 5
Back to Paris - 8
A school in motion - 9
Finding a place - 11
2. The Educational Journey - 14
A dynamic theatre of new work - 16
The search for permanency - 21
II THE WORLD AND ITS MOVEMENTS - 25
A Blank Page - 27
1. Improvisation - 29
Silence Before Words - 29
Replay and play - 29
Towards the structures of play - 33
The Neutral Mask - 36
Neutrality - 36
The fundamental journey - 42
Identification with the natural world - 43
Transposing - 45
Approach to the Arts - 47
The universal poetic awareness - 47
The colours of the rainbow - 48
The body of words - 50
Music as partner - 53
Masks and Counter-masks - 54
Levels of acting - 54
Entering into the form - 59
Characters - 63
States, passions, feelings - 63
Place and milieu - 65
Stylistic constraints - 67
2. Movement Technique - 69
Physical and Vocal Preparation - 69
Giving meaning to movement - 69
Dramatic Acrobatics - 73
The body's limits - 73
Movement Analysis - 74
The foundation: natural everyday movements - 75
Bringing out attitudes - 75
Researching the economy of physical actions - 82
Analysing the dynamics of nature - 87
Studying animals - 92
The laws of motion - 94
3. The Students' Own Theatre - 96
Auto-cours and investigations - 96
III THE ROADS TO CREATIVITY - 101
Geodramatics - 103
1. Gestural Languages - 107
From pantomime to cartoon mime - 107
2. The Main Dramatic Territories - 112
Melodrama - 112
Grand emotions - 112
Commedia dell ’ arte 115
The human comedy -115
Scenarios and strategic play - 120
Bouffons - 124
Mystery, the grotesque and the fantastic - 124
A different body - 131
Tragedy - 135
Chorus and hero - 135
A balanced stage - 141
The necessity of text - 146
Clowns - 152
Finding one's own clown - 152
Comic varieties: the burlesque, the absurd - 160
3.The Laboratory for the Study of Movement (L.E.M.) - 165
IV NEW BEGINNINGS - 169
Glossary -174
Notes - 182
Afterword by Fay Lecoq - 186
Autor(es): LECOQ, Jacques
Título: The Moving Body: Le Corps Poétique: Teaching Creative Theatre
Publicação: Soho: Methuen Drama, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-408-11146-8
Assunto(s):
LECOQ, Jacques (1921-1999) -- França
Teatro -- Manuais
Índice | Table of Contents | Table des Matières
Foreword by Simon McBurney - ix
Biographical Note - xi
Bibliography & Filmography - xii
Translator's note - xiv
I PERSONAL JOURNEY - 1
1. From Sport to Theatre - 3
Italian adventure - 5
Back to Paris - 8
A school in motion - 9
Finding a place - 11
2. The Educational Journey - 14
A dynamic theatre of new work - 16
The search for permanency - 21
II THE WORLD AND ITS MOVEMENTS - 25
A Blank Page - 27
1. Improvisation - 29
Silence Before Words - 29
Replay and play - 29
Towards the structures of play - 33
The Neutral Mask - 36
Neutrality - 36
The fundamental journey - 42
Identification with the natural world - 43
Transposing - 45
Approach to the Arts - 47
The universal poetic awareness - 47
The colours of the rainbow - 48
The body of words - 50
Music as partner - 53
Masks and Counter-masks - 54
Levels of acting - 54
Entering into the form - 59
Characters - 63
States, passions, feelings - 63
Place and milieu - 65
Stylistic constraints - 67
2. Movement Technique - 69
Physical and Vocal Preparation - 69
Giving meaning to movement - 69
Dramatic Acrobatics - 73
The body's limits - 73
Movement Analysis - 74
The foundation: natural everyday movements - 75
Bringing out attitudes - 75
Researching the economy of physical actions - 82
Analysing the dynamics of nature - 87
Studying animals - 92
The laws of motion - 94
3. The Students' Own Theatre - 96
Auto-cours and investigations - 96
III THE ROADS TO CREATIVITY - 101
Geodramatics - 103
1. Gestural Languages - 107
From pantomime to cartoon mime - 107
2. The Main Dramatic Territories - 112
Melodrama - 112
Grand emotions - 112
Commedia dell ’ arte 115
The human comedy -115
Scenarios and strategic play - 120
Bouffons - 124
Mystery, the grotesque and the fantastic - 124
A different body - 131
Tragedy - 135
Chorus and hero - 135
A balanced stage - 141
The necessity of text - 146
Clowns - 152
Finding one's own clown - 152
Comic varieties: the burlesque, the absurd - 160
3.The Laboratory for the Study of Movement (L.E.M.) - 165
IV NEW BEGINNINGS - 169
Glossary -174
Notes - 182
Afterword by Fay Lecoq - 186