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The moving body : teaching creative theatre
Corps poétique. English
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- Creator
- by Jacques Lecoq ; in collaboration with Jean-Gabriel Carasso and Jean-Claude Lallias ; translated from Le corps poétique by David Bradby ; [with a foreword by Simon McBurney]
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- English
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- First Routledge paperback edition
- New York : Routledge, 2002
- ©2000
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- xiii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 0878301410, 9780878301416, 0878301402, 9780878301409
- OCLC
- ocm50127787
- "A Theatre Arts book"--T.p. verso, p. [4] of cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and filmography (page xii).
- I Personal journey 1 -- From sport to theatre 3 -- Italian adventure 6 -- Back to Paris 8 -- A school in motion 9 -- Finding a place 12 -- The educational journey 14 -- Towards a young theatre of new work 18 -- The search for permanency 21 -- II The world and its movements 25 -- A blank page 27 -- 1 Improvisation 29 -- Silence before words Replay and play Towards the structures of play 33 -- The neutral mask 36 -- Neutrality The fundamental journey 41 -- Identification with the natural world 42 -- Transposing 44 -- Approach to the arts 46 -- The universal poetic sense The colours of the rainbow 47 -- The body of words 49 -- Music as partner 51 -- Masks and counter-masks 52 -- Levels of acting Entering into the form 56 -- Characters 60 -- States, passions, feelings Place and milieu 62 -- Stylistic constraints 64 -- 2 Movement technique 66 -- Physical and vocal preparation Giving meaning to movement Dramatic acrobatics 70 -- The body's limits Movement analysis 71 -- The foundation : natural everyday movements Bringing out attitudes 76 -- Researching the economy of physical actions 77 -- Analysing the dynamics of nature 83 -- Studying animals 87 -- The laws of motion 89 -- 3 The students' own theatre 91 -- Auto-cours and investigations III The roads to creativity 95 -- Geodramatics 97 -- 4 Gestural languages 100 -- From pantomime to cartoon mime 5 The main dramatic territories 105 -- Melodrama Grand emotions Commedia dell'arte 108 -- The human comedy Scenarios and strategic play 112 -- Bouffons 117 -- Mystery, the grotesque and the fantastic A different body 123 -- Tragedy 126 -- Chorus and hero A balanced stage 132 -- The necessity of text 137 -- Clowns 143 -- Finding one's own clown Comic varieties : the burlesque, the absurd 151 -- 6 The Laboratory for the Study of Movement (L.E.M.) 155 -- IV New perspectives 159