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Jacques Lecoq (15 December 1921 [1] – 19 January 1999) was a French stage actor and acting movement coach. He was best known for his teaching methods in physical theatre , movement, and mime which he taught at the school he founded in Paris known as École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq .
The usage of the word bouffon comes from French and has entered English theatrical language through the work of Jacques Lecoq and his pedagogic inquiry into performance approaches of comedy, leading him to create dynamic classroom exercises that explored elements of burlesque, commedia dell'arte, farce, gallows humor, parody, satire, slapstick ...
École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq is a school of physical theatre previously located on Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. In May of 2023 the school announced its departure from Paris and relocation to Avignon, where its next season training would commence that autumn. [1]
Gaulier left Lecoq in 1980, and set up his own clown school, the École Philippe Gaulier, [2] in Paris. [1] In 1991, Gaulier moved the École Philippe Gaulier to the north London suburb of Cricklewood in the United Kingdom, [1] where it was based for eleven years until 2002. [citation needed] Sacha Baron Cohen attended the school around 1996. [1]
The Theatre du Soleil was founded as a theatre collective in 1964, in the midst of the Cold War. [1] In 1965, Charles de Gaulle was re-elected President of France in the first election with a direct popular vote for the office. In 1968, a labor strike in France involved 11 million workers, students, and far-left politicians. [1]
A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor"), [1] is a person who uses mime (also called pantomime outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.
Théâtre de Complicité, which is one of the most original and inventive British theatre companies, was founded in 1983. It was created by four young people whose aim was to bring the physical disciplines they had learned at the Jacques Lecoq Mime School in Paris to the largely text-based British theatre.
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