Theatre of Movement and Gesture Book

List of illustrations     viii
Translators' preface     x
Editor's introduction     xii
Imitation: from mimicry to miming   Jacques Lecoq     1
The gestures of life   Jacques Lecoq     6
Are gestures universal?     7
Gestures in life     8
Action gestures     9
Walking and gait     10
Professions     14
Situations     15
Expressive gestures     16
Indicative gestures     19
Popular gestures     19
A codified language     21
One gesture, one space     22
Costume: a different body     24
The body as we see it today     26
From pantomime to modern mime   Jacques Lecoq     29
The death of Pierrot     30
Deburau-Pierrot     32
The succession of men in white     33
Poor Pierrot!     34
The rediscovery of the moving body     35
Jacques Copeau and the Vieux-Colombier school     38
Links and influences     40
Has mime become separated from theatre?   Jean Perret     42
Etienne Decroux, master ofmime     43
Interview with Jean-Louis Barrault     49
A mime: the Marceau phenomienon     58
Mime, the art of movement   Jacques Lecoq     67
What is a mime?     68
Silence     70
Absolute mime     72
The obstacles to overcome     72
Pedagogy of the constraint     76
Style     76
The rules of the game     77
Directions of mime     78
Encounter with the temptation to systematise     79
Movement with a capital 'M'     80
The fixed point     81
Equilibrium and disequilibrium     82
The body of Artaud     84
Compensation     84
Alternation     85
The preparation movement     85
The accentuation of movement     87
Rhythm     88
Space     89
The dynamics of the passions     91
The dynamics of words     92
The explosion of mime   Jean Perret   Jacques Lecoq     94
The pedagogy of movement, interview of Jacques Lecoq by Jean Perret, including seven explanations of key ideas by Lecoq     95
The commedia dell'arte      100
Mask work     103
How does a chorus move?     109
In search of one's own down     115
The age of the bouffon     118
Cartoon mime     121
Performing with portable structures     123
The theatre of gesture and image     126
Introduction   Jacques Lecoq     126
Interview with Ariane Mnouchkine   Jean Perret     130
An actor's view of a theatre of movement   Alain Gautre     135
View from a Frenchman in the stalls     137
The actor face to face with his desire     142
The actor within a company     148
Three case studies     150
Every aspect of the image     152
Mimes?     154
The theatre of silence     156
A theatre that moves     156
Index     159