Imagining Bodies and Performer Training: The Legacies of Jacques Lecoq and Gaston Bachelard

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Ellie Nixon

Imagining Bodies and Performer Training

The Legacies of Jacques Lecoq and Gaston Bachelard

Ellie Nixon

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Routledge
04 March 2024

The Arts: General & Reference; Theatre Studies; Dance

Series: Perspectives on Performer Training

This book is a practical and theoretical exploration of the embodied imagining processes of devised performance in which the human and more-than-human are co-implicated in the creative process.

This study brings together the work of French theatre pedagogue Jacques Lecoq (1921–1999) and French philosopher of science and the imagination Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) to explore the notion of the imagination as embodied, enactive and embedded in the devising process. An exploration of compelling correspondences with Bachelard, whose writings imbue Lecoq’s teaching ethos, offers new practical and theoretical perspectives on Lecoq’s ‘poetic body’ in contemporary devising practices. Interweaving first-hand accounts by the author and interviews with contemporary international creative practitioners who have graduated from or have been deeply influenced by Lecoq, Imagining Bodies in Performer Training interrogates how his teachings have been adapted, developed and extended in various cultural, political and historical settings, in Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, and North and South America.

These new and rich insights reveal a teaching approach that resists fixity and instead unfolds, develops and adapts to the diverse cultural and political contexts of its practitioners, teachers and students.

By: Ellie Nixon
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 540g
ISBN: 9781138365933
ISBN 10: 1138365939
Series: Perspectives on Performer Training
Pages: 186
Publication Date: 04 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ellie Nixon is Director of Film and Performing Arts at Norwich University of the Arts, UK, and an actor, director and co-founder of La Mancha Theatre Company and La Mancha International Theatre School of Image and Gesture in Chile.

Reviews for Imagining Bodies and Performer Training: The Legacies of Jacques Lecoq and Gaston Bachelard

"""In this very impressive book Nixon weaves her chosen elements together with great assuredness and creative acumen. The Imagining Body is many things: a theoretical guide to where Lecoq and Bachelard meet; a sharing of the practical utility of air, fire, earth, and water; a primer on imagination; a personal, reflective account of a long-standing Lecoq-inspired practice; and a repository of fascinating practitioner interviews. In less capable hands, this could be a confusing mix. But here, ideas accumulate and mix in highly productive and stimulating ways for the reader."" Professor Jonathan Pitches, Head of School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds"