Download or read book Theatre of Movement and Gesture written by Jacques Lecoq and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacques Lecoq was probably the most influential theorist and teacher of what is now known as physical theatre. Theatre of Movement and Gesture, published in France in 1987, is the book in which Lecoq first set out his philosophy of human movement, and the way it takes expressive form in a wide range of different performance traditions. Lecoq traces the history of pantomime, sets out his definition of the components of the art of mime, and discusses the explosion of physical theatre in the second half of the twentieth century.