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(2019) Enacting Lecoq, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
Significant practices and principles
play, improvisation, mask work, and language
Maiya Murphy
pp. 155-182
Murphy examines Lecoq's notions of play and improvisation through enaction to show how they are ideal examples of the continuity between lower-level and higher-level cognition. This chapter includes a discussion on Lecoq's neutral, larval, and expressive masks as tools for the actor-creator to learn how to navigate the many dimensions available to the performer. Murphy concludes with a discussion on how both Lecoq and an enactive perspective envision language as a capacity that arises from the body's engagement with movement. In this way Lecoq's insistence on starting from movement is revealed not as a bias against words or text-based theatre, but rather as a commitment to using a continuity of life and mind to equip the actor-creator with flexible capacities for theatrical expression.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-05615-5_5
Full citation:
Murphy, M. (2019). Significant practices and principles: play, improvisation, mask work, and language, in Enacting Lecoq, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 155-182.
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