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Theatre of movement and gesture /

By: Lecoq, Jacques.
Contributor(s): Bradby, David.
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2006Description: xvi, 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0415359449; 9780415359443:; 9780415359443.Subject(s): Movement | Movement (Acting) | Theater | GesturesDDC classification: 792.028 | LEC
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Translator's preface -- Editor's introduction -- Imitation : from mimicry to miming / Jacques Lecoq -- The gestures of life / Jacques Lecoq -- From pantomime to modern mime / Jacques Lecoq -- Has mime become separated from theatre? / Jean Perret -- Mime, the art of movement / Jacques Lecoq -- The explosion of mime / Jean Perret and Jacques Lecoq -- The theatre of gesture and image: introduction / Jacques Lecoq -- Interview with Ariane Mnouchkine / Jean Perret -- An actor's view of a theatre of movement / Alain Gautré.
Summary: This is an examination of Lecoq's philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a range of 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 20th century.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 792.028 LEC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0065273
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Originally published in French as 'Le théâtre du geste', Bordas, 1987.

Includes index.

List of illustrations -- Translator's preface -- Editor's introduction -- Imitation : from mimicry to miming / Jacques Lecoq -- The gestures of life / Jacques Lecoq -- From pantomime to modern mime / Jacques Lecoq -- Has mime become separated from theatre? / Jean Perret -- Mime, the art of movement / Jacques Lecoq -- The explosion of mime / Jean Perret and Jacques Lecoq -- The theatre of gesture and image: introduction / Jacques Lecoq -- Interview with Ariane Mnouchkine / Jean Perret -- An actor's view of a theatre of movement / Alain Gautré.

This is an examination of Lecoq's philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a range of 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 20th century.

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