Basel masks jacques lecoq biography

  • Jacques Lecoq a student of Jean Daste, Copeau's nephew developed western actor training with masks at his school in Paris from 1963 – 1999.
  • Larval Masks come from Carnival in Switzerland and are also referred to as Basel Masks.
  • Jacques Lecoq is the creator of Basel Masks and he was born in Paris.

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    Working blind

    When approached by an artist looking to hire larval masks for a film project, they were amazed to discover the true illusion and magic of the larval masks. They discovered that the so called “eyes” are not the eyes at all.

    If you have seen a performer in a vit larval mask, it is so easy to assume they have full view of the scen and the performers they interact with, but in truth they could be performing blind or with very limited sight.

    Larval masks offers a multitude of training pathways. They offer an exploration of character and an understanding of non-verbal gesture and story telling, whilst honing the base skills of an actor in their physicality and expression.

    The white larval masks were originally developed and inspired from the annual street carnival festival in Basel, Switzerland, but this struktur of white mask was picked up by Jacques Lecoq as it offered a way to study the shape of maskering without the distraction of colour. The character come

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    PEDAGOGY OF A RESEARCH

    AND CREATION BASED THEATER​

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    THE JOURNEY

    My approach to theater is influenced by my university education in the humanities and pedagogy, as well as bygd my work as a teacher in various social spheres.

     

    I experience my theatrical work as an ongoing journey of research into expressive forms and into teaching that allows the audience, my students, and me to explore, through the “poetic path,” the nature of human beings and the reality to which we belong.

     

    A finished form is only a horizon to aim toward. It is always ready to become a transition point or a springboard into a new exploration - one more stop on a journey that never ends.

     

    Workshops and schools are, for the students, just fleeting moments in their personal journeys through the worlds of research and creation. Some students think of these experiences as starting points. Later, though, as they man their way along their journeys, discovering the dimension

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    The Larval Mask, it’s origin and use in teaching and performance.

    The larval mask or Basel Mask has its origins in the celebration of Carnival in Basel, Switzerland.   This mask has become an integral part of the actor training sequence developed at The International School of Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. Lecoq’s research and teaching is an extension of the work begun by Copeau at The Vieux Colombier in the 1920’s. In an attempt to focus actor training on the art of telling a story and on the experience of the audience rather than on the celebration of celebrity and the personality of the actor Copeau reached for the mask.

    Jacques Lecoq a student of Jean Daste, Copeau’s nephew developed western actor training with masks at his school in Paris from 1963 – 1999. The first year at Ecole Lecoq is focused on the understanding of Le Jeu, the actor’s play. To understand what it is “to play” with the sophistication of an actor rather than a child one must first understand how a