Jacques Lecoq
Jacques Lecoq (* December 15, 1921 in Paris, † January 19, 1999 same place ) was a French drama teacher, drama teacher and mime. His he founded École Internationale de Théâtre in Paris, in short: Ecole Jacques Lecoq, since the 1960s, a focal point for drama students from around the world. He was an advocate of modern pantomime and played a major role in its development.
Life
Lecoq was initially professional swimmer and gymnast before he found his way to the stage and body language. In 1937 he began to study physical education and sport, he also taught from 1945 to 1941 and it received several diplomas of French swimming and athletics associations. His interest in physical education and expression silenced him with Jean -Marie Conty together, a former champion in this field and friend of Antonin Artaud and Jean -Louis Barrault.
In 1945 he founded with Daniel Cousin a dramatic group and began to act. From 1946 to 1948 he was a teacher at Éducation pour jeu dramatique and was recorded at the Comédiens de Grenoble, where he taught young actors in training and body movement. During this time he discovered the use of masks and made acquaintance with the ideas of actor, director and theater reformer Jacques Copeau.
In 1948 he moved to Italy for eight years, where he was a teacher of pantomime at the University of Padua theater first, while the commedia dell'arte and their masks discovered. Invited by Giorgio Strehler and Paolo Grassi, 1951, he was first at the theater school at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, in order to later take over the lead teacher. There he worked among others with Dario Fo and Anna Magnani together.
In 1956 he went back to Paris and founded a school for mime and theater and its own theater group. From 1968 to 1988 he was a teacher at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux- Arts, where in 1977 the department " Laboratoire d' étude du mouvement " einrichtete that dealt with the human body, its movements and the dynamics of facial expressions.
His work took him around the world: He has been a guest teacher and has lectured, gave master classes, demonstrations, and guest performances, choreographed at the Opera House in Rome, worked in various productions in Europe and was a member of the Union des Theatres de l'Europe / Union of Theatres of Europe ( UTE ). His students include such diverse artists as Luc Bondy, Christoph Marthaler, Ariane Mnouchkine, Yasmina Reza and masquerade.
A few days before his death, he taught at his own school in Paris. This is today led by his wife Fay Lecoq on.
Goals of his training method
Jacques Lecoq describes part of his education as " a journey inside ". This leads to the encounter with the " verwesentlichten life," to what he calls " the common poetic reason ". Lecoq: " Below is an abstract dimension of space, light, colors and sounds, to understand that everyone carries within himself. These elements of our different experiences, our feelings and all that we have seen, touched tasted are stored within us. All that remains in our body and forms the common basis from which also the drive and the desire to create something that will emerge. The educational work required to move ahead in this common poetic reason to appear about life as it is or to get out. Only in this way the students will find a personal creativity "(after Fundevogel.com ).
His work, he documented through video. He also brought 1999 Les deux voyages de Jacques Lecoq Jean -Noel Roy and Jean -Gabriel Carasso produced two documentaries for French television and ARTE.
Works
- The poetic body - a doctrine of theater work. In collaboration with Jean -Gabriel Carasso and Jean -Claude Lallias, from the French by Katja Douvier. Alexander, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89581-042-8.