Theatre of Movement and Gesture by Jacques Lecoq

Theatre of Movement and Gesture by Jacques Lecoq

Features Lecoq's philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. He 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 is an important addition to the growing body of scholarship treating Lecoq's work, and any student of 20th-century theatre or the use of movement in performance will find this book invaluable." --TDR

Jacques Lecoq founded l’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in 1956, developing teaching methods that have inspired 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).

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ISBN 13	9780415359436
ISBN 10	0415359430
Title	Theatre of Movement and Gesture
Author	Jacques Lecoq
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2006-09-29
Number of pages	184
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