Masterclass: The Fundamentals of Jacques Lecoq

Led by Edalia Day

In this one-day workshop, you'll create bold and ridiculous, yet truthful characters and explore physical theatre techniques using the fundamentals of the Lecoq style. You'll shape characters based on elements, animals and different materials and look at methods of creating theatre without props or sets - just you, the audience and an abundance of imagination and physicality! Whether you’re looking to learn new techniques for theatre making or simply want to develop as performer - this workshop will provide you with a toolbox of performance skills and new ways of working.

When: Saturday, 7th September 2019, 11am-5pm
How much: £35
Suitable for ages 18+
 
About Lecoq
 
Jacques Lecoq was one of the greatest mime artists and teachers of acting in our time. Born in Paris, he began his career as an actor in France. Passionately interested in the commedia dell'arte, he went to Italy to do research on the use of masks by strolling players of the 16th century. There he met the great Italian director Giorgio Strehler, who was also an enthusiast of the commedia and founder of the Piccolo Teatro of Milan; and with him Lecoq created the Piccolo theatre acting school. In 1956 he started his own school of mime in Paris, which over the next four decades became the nursery of several generations of brilliant mime artists and actors.
 
About the Course Leader
 
Edalia Day has been a professional actor and facilitator for over 10 years. Since training at ALRA and the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris, Edalia has played a variety of classical and contemporary roles often with actor musicianship, physical comedy, and wild physical abandon! Most recently, Edalia played Prospero and Trinculo in an open-air production of the Tempest with Red Rose Chain Theatre Company.
 
Edalia is currently touring ‘Super Hamlet 64’, a one-person mix of clown, music, spoken word, video-gaming and Shakespeare's tragedies, Too Pretty to Punch and Spectacular Spacebots!