- Title
- The rediscovery of the mask
- Creator
- Arrighi, Gillian
- Relation
- The Routledge Companion to Jacques Lecoq p. 27-34
- Relation
- https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Jacques-Lecoq/Evans-Kemp/p/book/9781138818422
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- The 'rediscovery and rehabilitation' of the mask (De Marinis, 1995: 15) as both an element of dramaturgy and a pedagogical tool for the actor can be traced from the early years of the twentieth century. Theatre visionaries Edward Gordon Craig and Antonin Artaud both proposed the rediscovery of masks as an intrinsic element of their vision for a renewed and rejuvenated theatre. During the early years of the century, Russian practitioners and theorists such as Vsevolod Meyemold also adopted the mask as a paradigm for their plans to renew and rejuvenate a 'theatre of art'. But it was the practice-led innovations with masks at the Parisian actor training school established by Jacques Copeau, the École du Vieux-Colombier, that significantly influenced the principal mask pedagogies of the twentieth century: Michel Saint-Denis, Keith Johnstone, and Jacques Lecoq. Saint-Denis' teaching system became institutionalised in the US, the UK, Canada, and France, whilst ex-students of Lecoq's school include high-profile mask innovators such as Julie Taymor and the founders of the Swiss-based company Mummenschanz.
- Subject
- Jacques Lecoq; École du Vieux-Colombier; acting school; masks
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1344226
- Identifier
- uon:29366
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138818422
- Language
- eng
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