Practitioners
Lecoq, Jacques
Practitioner
Known principally as a teacher rather than as a performer or director, Jacques Lecoq’s work on comic and physical performance has been immensely influential, thanks to his collaborators and students.
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A workshop on Eccentric Performing. This pedagogy for physical theatre is interesting in its presentation of techniques the performer can use to influence the audience’s emotional reactions.
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The Neutral Mask workshop Houben led for the International Workshop Festival in Edinburgh was the only one of this kind he ever attempted. It was an experiment.
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The Neutral Mask workshop Houben led for the International Workshop Festival in Edinburgh was the only one of this kind he ever attempted. It was an experiment.
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The Neutral Mask workshop Houben led for the International Workshop Festival in Edinburgh was the only one of this kind he ever attempted. It was an experiment.
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Avner Eisenberg has been called ‘a clown for the thinking man’. From 1971–4, he studied with Jacques Lecoq. At present, he is still touring internationally with his award-winning one-man show.
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Actor, director, writer, flautist, mask-maker and teacher, Antonio Fava worked with Dario Fo and Jacques Lecoq before founding Teatro del Vicolo with Dina Buccino. He also performs with his children.
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A director, teacher and actor, Jos Houben trained at L’École Jacques Lecoq, was a founding member of Complicité, has directed comedy and television, and toured his one-man masterclass internationally.
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An international touring company co-founded by Simon McBurney in 1983, Complicité has helped shape the landscape of contemporary theatre, with acclaimed physical, devised and multimedia work.
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Movement training or the aestheticised enactment of movements in performance requires discipline and rehearsal practice, and more heightened attention than we give our body in everyday life.
