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. [...]

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 [...]