{"product_id":"9781408141199","title":"The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique): Teaching Creative Theatre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'In life I want students to be alive and on stage I want them to be artists' Jacques Lecoq\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacques Lecoq was one of the most inspirational theatre teachers\u003cbr\u003eof our age. The International Theatre School he founded in Paris\u003cbr\u003eremains an unrivalled centre for the art of physical theatre. In \u003ci\u003eThe Moving Body\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003eLecoq shares his unique philosophy of performance, improvisation,\u003cbr\u003emasks, movement and gesture which together form one of the greatest\u003cbr\u003einfluences on contemporary theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeutral mask, character mask, and counter masks, \u003ci\u003ebouffons,\u003c\/i\u003e acrobatics and \u003ci\u003ecommedia\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003eclowns and complicity: all the famous Lecoq techniques are covered here\u003cbr\u003e- techniques that have made their way into the work of former\u003cbr\u003ecollaborators and students inluding Dario Fo, Julie Taymor, Ariane\u003cbr\u003eMnouchkine, Yasmina Reza and Theatre de Complicité. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis paperback edition contains a Foreword by Simon McBurney,\u003cbr\u003eArtistic Director of Complicité and an Afterword by Fay Lecoq, Director\u003cbr\u003eof the International Theatre School in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138020884720,"sku":"9781408141199","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781408141199_p0.jpg?v=1763718091","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781408141199","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}