Serious Business

Lecoq, Jacques
Theatre of Movement and Gesture
London: Methuen Drama, 2003
As a dance student in London I fell in love with European dance theater—a hybrid of dance, music, text, and themes so poetic and personal they could only have come from individual experience (I assumed improvisation from the performers) rather than the mind of a single choreographer. [...]

Stock Comedy

Lust, Annette Bercut
From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond: Mimes, Actors, Pierrots, and Clowns: A Chronicle of the Many Visages of Mime in the Theater.
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003
In 2006, my dance company was commissioned to choreograph and perform Stravinsky’s opera ballet Pulcinella. I had some hazy memory of commedia dell’arte stock characters [...]

Mind, Body, Expression in a Thinking World

Lecoq, Jacques
The Moving Body: Teaching Creative Theater
New York: Methuen Drama, 2002
I sometimes find it difficult in my work as a theater teaching artist to promote art, creativity, and movement to a population of students eager to say the right answer, where test prep and testing are ubiquitous. In The Moving Body, French movement, mime, and [...]