Theatre of Movement and Gesture

Zusatztext "...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 Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Imitation: from mimicry to miming 2 The gestures of life 3 From pantomime to modern mime 4 Has mime become separated from theatre? 5 Mime, the art of movement 6 The explosion of mime 7 The theatre of gesture and image

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Lecoq, Lecoq Jacques
• Assisted by: Joel Anderson (Translation), D Bradby (Translation), D. Bradby (Translation), Luke Kernaghan (Translation), Kernaghan Luke (Translation), Dick Mccaw (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2006
• EAN: 9780415359436
• ISBN: 978-0-415-35943-6
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 245 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies