Enacting Lecoq Movement in Theatre, Cognition, and Life /

• Main Author: Murphy, Maiya (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
• Subjects: Theater.; Actors.; Performing arts.; Phenomenology .; Performers and Practitioners.; Performing Arts.; Phenomenology.

This book examines the theatrical movement-based pedagogy of Jacques Lecoq (1921-1999) through the lens of the cognitive scientific paradigm of enaction. The conversation between these two both uncovers more of the possible cognitive processes at work in Lecoq pedagogy and proposes how Lecoq's...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Crafting Necessary Temptations and Needful Freedoms: Lecoq's Actor-Instructor Relationship
• 3. Enacting Cognitive and Creative Foundations
• 4. Lecoq's Mime and the Process of Identifications: Enacting Movement, Selfhoods, and Otherness
• 5. Significant Practices and Principles: Play, Improvisation, Mask Work, and Language
• 6. Conclusion: "Beautiful, beautiful, but where are you going?".