Theatre Of Movement And Gesture

Author : Jacques Lecoq
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134240982

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Theatre of Movement and Gesture by Jacques Lecoq Pdf

Published in France in 1987, this is the book in which Lecoq first set out his 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. Interviews with major theatre practitioners Ariane Mnouchkine and Jean-Louis Barrault by Jean Perret, together with chapters by Perret on Étienne Decroux and Marcel Marceau, fill out the historical material written by Lecoq, and a final section by Alain Gautré celebrates the many physical theatre practitioners working in the 1980s.

Author : Jacques Lecoq
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474244794

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The Moving Body (Le Corps Poétique) by Jacques Lecoq Pdf

'In life, I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. In The Moving Body, he shares with us first-hand his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement and gesture, which together form one of the greatest influences on contemporary theatre. Neutral mask, character mask and counter masks, bouffons, acrobatics, commedia, clowns and complicity: all the famous Lecoq techniques are covered in this book - techniques that have made their way into the work of former collaborators and students including Dario Fo, Ariane Mnouchkine, Yasmina Reza and Theatre de Complicite. The book contains a foreword by Simon McBurney, a critical introduction by Mark Evans and an afterword by Fay Lecoq, Director of the International Theatre School in Paris.

Author : Helena De Preester
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789027272003

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Moving Imagination by Helena De Preester Pdf

This volume brings together contributions by philosophers, art historians and artists who discuss, interpret and analyse the moving and gesturing body in the arts. Broadly inspired by phenomenology, and taking into account insights from cognitive science, the contribution of the motor body in watching a film, attending a dance or theatre performance, looking at paintings or drawings, and listening to music is explored from a diversity of perspectives. This volume is intended for both the specialist and non-specialist in the fields of art, philosophy and cognitive science, and testifies to the burgeoning interest for the moving and gesturing body, not only in the creation but also in the perception of works of art. Imagination is tied to our capacity to silently resonate with the way a work of art has been or is created.

Author : Dominic Symonds,Millie Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199997169

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Gestures of Music Theater by Dominic Symonds,Millie Taylor Pdf

Gestures of Music Theater explores examples of Song and Dance as performative gestures that entertain and affect audiences. The chapters interact to reveal the complex energies of performativity. In experiencing these energies, music theatre is revealed as a dynamic accretion of active, complex and dialogical experiences.

Author : Nicole Potter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781581159349

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Movement for Actors by Nicole Potter Pdf

In this rich resource for American actors, renowned movement teachers and directors reveal the physical skills needed for the stage and screen. Experts in a wide array of disciplines provide remarkable insight into the Alexander technique, the use of psychological gesture, period movement, the work of Rudolph Laban, postmodern choreography, and Suzuki training, to name but a few. Those who want to pursue serious training will be able to consult the appendix for listings of the best teachers and schools in the country. This inspiring collection is a must read for all actors, directors, and teachers of theater looking for stimulation and new approaches.

Author : Annette Lust
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810882126

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Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen by Annette Lust Pdf

As stage and screen artists explore new means to enhance their craft, a new wave of interest in expressive movement and physical improvisation has developed. And in order to bring authenticity and believability to a character, it has become increasingly vital for actors to be aware of movement and physical acting. Stage and screen artists must now call upon physical presence, movement on stage, non-verbal interactions, and gestures to fully convey themselves. In Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen, Annette Lust provides stage and screen artists with a program of physical and related expressive exercises that can empower their art with more creativity. In this book, Lust provides a general introduction to movement, including definitions and differences between movement on the stage and screen, how to conduct a class or learn on one's own, and choosing a movement style. Throughout the book and in the appendixes, Lust incorporates learning programs that cover the use of basic physical and expressive exercises for the entire body. In addition, she provides original solo and group pantomimes; improvisational exercises; examples of plays, fiction, poetry, and songs that may be interpreted with movement; a list of training centers in America and Europe; and an extensive bibliography and videography. With 15 interviews and essays by prominent stage and screen actors, mimes, clowns, dancers, and puppeteers who describe the importance of movement in their art and illustrated with dozens of photos of renowned world companies and artists, Bringing the Body to the Stage and Screen will be a valuable resource for theater teachers and students, as well as anyone engaged in the performing arts.

Author : Nicholas Dromgoole
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781783192304

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Performance, Style and Gesture in Western Theatre by Nicholas Dromgoole Pdf

Until the beginning of the 20th Century, when naturalism began to assert its powerful influence on western theatre, acting was a very different business indeed. Rather than attempting to reproduce realistic behaviour, actors conveyed their characters' feelings and intentions by using a vocabulary of minutely prescribed and highly stylised movements and gestures, each with it's own meaning and significance. In this wide-ranging, illustrated survey, Nicholas Dromgoole traces the origins and evolution of this lost 'language of gesture' from ancient Greece to the contemporary stage, and asks what it would actually have been like to watch the great plays - and the great actors - of western theatre in their own day.

Author : Jacques Lecoq
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408141182

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The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique) by Jacques Lecoq Pdf

'In life I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. The International Theatre School he founded in Paris remains an unrivalled centre for the art of physical theatre. In The Moving Body, Lecoq shares his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement and gesture which together form one of the greatest influences on contemporary theatre. Neutral mask, character mask, and counter masks, bouffons, acrobatics and commedia, clowns and complicity: all the famous Lecoq techniques are covered here - techniques that have made their way into the work of former collaborators and students inluding Dario Fo, Julie Taymor, Ariane Mnouchkine, Yasmina Reza and Theatre de Complicité. This paperback edition contains a Foreword by Simon McBurney, Artistic Director of Complicité and an Afterword by Fay Lecoq, Director of the International Theatre School in Paris.

Author : Jacques Lecoq
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781408141199

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The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique) by Jacques Lecoq Pdf

'In life I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq Jacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers of our age. The International Theatre School he founded in Paris remains an unrivalled centre for the art of physical theatre. In The Moving Body, Lecoq shares his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation, masks, movement and gesture which together form one of the greatest influences on contemporary theatre. Neutral mask, character mask, and counter masks, bouffons, acrobatics and commedia, clowns and complicity: all the famous Lecoq techniques are covered here - techniques that have made their way into the work of former collaborators and students inluding Dario Fo, Julie Taymor, Ariane Mnouchkine, Yasmina Reza and Theatre de Complicité. This paperback edition contains a Foreword by Simon McBurney, Artistic Director of Complicité and an Afterword by Fay Lecoq, Director of the International Theatre School in Paris.

Author : Dene Barnett,Jeanette Massy-Westropp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Acting
ISBN : UOM:39015054072932

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The Art of Gesture by Dene Barnett,Jeanette Massy-Westropp Pdf

Author : Rolf Inge Godøy,Marc Leman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135183622

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Musical Gestures by Rolf Inge Godøy,Marc Leman Pdf

We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement–when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating it to our body movements, or form an image in our minds of body movements. Musical Gestures is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sound and movement. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this subject, drawing on ideas, theories and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, human movement science, cognitive psychology, and computer science.

Author : Patrice Pavis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0802081630

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Dictionary of the Theatre by Patrice Pavis Pdf

An encyclopedic dictionary of technical and theoretical terms, the book covers all aspects of a semiotic approach to the theatre, with cross-referenced alphabetical entries ranging from absurd to word scenery.

Author : Maiya Murphy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030056155

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Enacting Lecoq by Maiya Murphy Pdf

This book examines the theatrical movement-based pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq (1921-1999) through the lens of the cognitive scientific paradigm of enaction. The conversation between these two both uncovers more of the possible cognitive processes at work in Lecoq pedagogy and proposes how Lecoq’s own practical and philosophical approach could have something to offer the development of the enactive paradigm. Understanding Lecoq pedagogy through enaction can shed new light on the ways that movement, key to Lecoq’s own articulation of his pedagogy, might cognitively constitute the development of Lecoq’s ultimate creative figure – the actor-creator. Through an enactive lens, the actor-creator can be understood as not only a creative figure, but also the manifestation of a fundamentally new mode of cognitive selfhood. This book engages with Lecoq pedagogy’s significant practices and principles including the relationship between the instructor and student, identifications, mime, play, mask work, language, improvisation, and movement analysis.

Author : Zornitsa Dimitrova
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000557282

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Theatre and the Virtual by Zornitsa Dimitrova Pdf

Theatre and the Virtual lays out a set of conceptual instruments for the articulation and engendering of the forces of theatrical potentiality. Creating a passage toward a reconstitution of the given, a theatre of the virtual opens bodies in motion to a region of an ongoing genesis of forces. The outcome: regimes of constraint are abandoned through a radical practice of ecological attunement. Violence is eschewed through an onto-ecology of touch. Closed systems are repotentialised to become co-constitutive of their environments. A logic of spectrality settles in—not so much entities as atmospheres, not so much a being as a style of being, not so much a body as multitudinous milieus of response. This is the task of a theatre of the virtual—to safeguard the possibility of the extra-epistemological and uphold one’s right to offer accounts of oneself from outside of being, all the while creating a fractured record of the wondrous mutations of a moving, gesturing body. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, philosophy, new materialisms, environmental humanities, gesture, and the ontology of response.

Author : Clifford Davidson
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015053778935

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Gesture in Medieval Drama and Art by Clifford Davidson Pdf

Gesture and movement on stage in early drama have previously received very little attention in scholarship. The present collection of essays is the first book to present sensible, penetrating, and wide-ranging discussions of the gestural effects that were integral to the early stage. In addition to consideration of the influence of classical rhetoric and reference to medieval texts and documents, the essays carefully bring to bear evidence from the art of the period and hence will be of great importance for those interested in the visual arts as well as the theater; eschewing both the naive methodologies promoted in past criticism and ephemeral theoretical concerns, the book is truly ground-breaking. These essays will need to be perused by every serious theater historian or student of art concerned with the late Middle Ages.