Jacques Lecoq (Simon Murray, 2003)

1. The life of Jacques Lecoq

• P.5 Jacques Lecoq died on 19 January 1999...the Polish teacher and theorist of actor training, Jerzy Grotowski, had died only five days earlier. Although their approaches to the training of actors differed in many significant respects...these major figures of twentieth-century European theatre are connected in at least two significant ways.

1. They were both deeply influenced by a way of looking at actor training initiated through the radical experiments of the French theatre director, Jacques Copeau.


2. is their joint insistence that the creative 'pulse' at the heart of theatre is the actor's body, its movement and its stillness. For Copeau, Grotowski and Lecoq - but in varying ways - it is the actor's body that is both starting and finishing point of all live performance.

Murray, Simon. Jacques Lecoq: Routledge Performance Practitioners. New York: Routledge, 2003.