on 6/28/02 11:40 PM, Alison Croggon at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Has anyone read that book which has written down Jacques Le Coq's
> teaching methods and has translated them into English (by David
> Bradbury, who's written some very informative books about French
> theatre)?
I wish I had. Let me know if anything surfaces.
> Le Coq was a famous acting
> teacher, but the title catches my fancy - it seems the "poetic body"
> is the body in motion, ie dynamic. And he also attempts to work out
> an alphabet of the body
Le Coq was basically a mime teacher, as far as I know. The two women I know
who studied with him in Paris went there to study mime specifically. Neither
is a mime artist though. One sells antiques and has published some poetry,
while the other is currently finishing her film studies in New York.
> I have often found books on acting (like Grotowski's, say) really
> stimulating in terms of thinking about the processes of writing and
> poetry
Ditto. Peter Brook too. Even Konstantin Stanislavski.
Best
Árni
--
Árni Ibsen
Stekkjarkinn 19,
220 Hafnarfjördur,
Iceland
tel.: +354-555-3991
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.centrum.is/~aibsen/
|