OUR TRAINING
We offer a range of Physical Theatre courses based on Jacques Lecoq Pedagogy and devising techniques.
Our Physical Theatre Courses are a great opportunity to explore your body, and its expressive possibilities. You will embark on a journey of discovery within your body, challenge your practice, and develop your own movement and creative language.
“Amazingly liberating and insightful physical theatre training lead by a bright, bubbly and wonderfully talented teacher, who makes you want to leap out of your comfort zone at every possible moment and embrace life! Would massively recommend.
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“I’m nobody; I am only a neutral point through which you must pass in order to better articulate your own theatrical voice. I am only there to place obstacles in your path, so you can find your own way round them.
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Why Jacques Lecoq Pedagogy?
The central idea of our Physical Theatre Courses and Jacques Lecoq’s pedagogy is that theatre is a poetic medium and the performer, is first of all a poet.
His language is the body.
Lecoq’s pedagogy trains the body of the performer to become a poetic instrument. At the base of this poetry of the body, there is mime. For Lecoq, “mime” doesn’t simply mean: imitation of reality. A mime is, first of all, somebody who can observe the world around him, take an impression in his body and then represent it through gestures.
Therefore for Lecoq, the performer has the capacity to listen and observe reality around him to generate impressions. Once this process is activated, the performer is able to transpose this reality with and through the body, into poetical shapes and gestures.
Within the poetical shapes, the personality of the artist emerges, in the way that he treats these elements of poetry. But it’s not about him, it’s about his relationship with the world.
The real talent of the performer is not to act, but to re-act. It’s about the ability of the actor to see, reflect and respond.
THE METHOD
Universal Poetic Awareness: Playfulness / Embodiment / Organic Movement / Anatomy of Movement.
Technique: 7 Levels of Tension / 20 Mime movements /Movement Analysis/ Object Manipulation.
Devising: Collaboration (collective language)/ Dramaturgical Devising (stages of the creative process)/ Research Process (interdisciplinary practices)/Peer Feedback.
Ensemble: Complicitè/ (Pattern)Rhythm & Tempo /Choral Work/ Action-reaction.
Territories: Neutral Mask/Clown/Buffon/Grotesque/Tragedy/Commedia dell’arte/Melodramma.
WHo is it for?
Anyone who has a body!
If you are completely new to Physical Theatre or have never attended any Drama classes before…
If you are an actor and want to add new skills to your techniques, move your body better on stage, and improve your chances to work with physical theatre companies…
If you are a performer or dancer and want to learn about the fundamentals of Lecoq Pedagogy and Physical Theatre…
Our Physical Theatre Courses are the right place for you!