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Jacques Lecoq
Jacques Lecoq (15 December 1921 – 19 January 1999) was a French stage actor and acting movement coach. He was best known for his teaching methods in physical theatre, movement, and mime which he taught at the school he founded in Paris known as École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq. He taught there from 1956 until his death from a cerebral hemorrhage in 1999. Jacques Lecoq was known as the only noteworthy movement instructor and theatre pedagogue with a professional background in sports and sports rehabilitation in the twentieth century. Life As a teenager, Lecoq participated in many sports such as running, swimming, and gymnastics. Lecoq was particularly drawn to gymnastics. He began learning gymnastics at the age of seventeen, and through work on the parallel bars and horizontal bar, he came to see and understand the geometry of movement. Lecoq described the movement of the body through space as required by gymnastics to be purely abstract. He came to understand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Scenography
Scenography is the practice of crafting stage environments or atmospheres. In the contemporary English usage, scenography can be defined as the combination of technological and material stagecrafts to represent, enact, and produce a sense of place in performance. While inclusive of the techniques of scenic design and set design, scenography is a holistic approach to the study and practice of all aspects of design in performance. It also includes Lighting design, the design of lighting, Sound design, sound, and Costume design, costumes. Etymology and cultural interpretations The term scenography is of Greek origin (''skēnē'', meaning 'stage or scene building'; ''grapho'', meaning 'to describe') originally detailed within Aristotle's ''Poetics'' as 'skenographia'. Nevertheless, within continental Europe, the term has been closely aligned with the professional practice of :fr:scénographie, scénographie and is synonymous with the English-language term 'Scenic design, theatre de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Isla Fisher
Isla Lang Fisher (; born 3 February 1976) is an Australian actress. Born in Oman to Scottish parents with whom she moved to Australia during her childhood, she began appearing in television commercials and came to prominence for her portrayal of Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera ''Home and Away'' (1994–1997), for which she received two Logie Award nominations. Fisher transitioned to Hollywood with a supporting role in the comedy horror film ''Scooby-Doo'' (2002) and has since starred in films such as '' Wedding Crashers'' (2005), '' Wedding Daze'' (2006), '' Confessions of a Shopaholic'' (2009), '' Bachelorette'' (2012), '' The Great Gatsby'' (2013), '' Now You See Me'' (2013), and '' Nocturnal Animals'' (2016). Her other credits include '' I Heart Huckabees'' (2004), '' Definitely, Maybe'' (2008), '' Keeping Up with the Joneses'' (2016), '' Tag'' (2018), and '' The Beach Bum'' (2019), in addition to voice roles in animated films such as '' Horton Hears a Who!'' (200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Avner The Eccentric
Avner Eisenberg, also known by his stage name "Avner the Eccentric" (born August 26, 1948) is an American vaudeville performer, clown, mime, juggler, and sleight of hand magician.Frank Cullen ''et al.'', "Avner the Eccentric" in ''Vaudeville, old & new: an encyclopedia of variety performers in America, Volume 1'', Routledge, 2007, , p. 49 ''et. seq.'' John Simon described him in 1984 as "A clown for the thinking man and the most exacting child." Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Avner went to four different universities with a variety of tentative majors; he ultimately received a theater degree from the University of Washington in 1971. He then studied mime in Paris under Jacques Lecoq, interrupting those studies to spend some time as a puppeteer. Returning to the U.S., he taught at Carlo Clementi's Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in California. He performed at Renaissance fairs and on stages, before playing the title role in the 1985 film ''The Jewel of the Nile' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Chris Channing
Chris Channing (born 14 April 1962) is an English performer, designer and director of theatre, physical-theatre and of theatrically styled dance-based events. He has been based in Britain, France and Italy. Early life Channing was born in Preston, Lancashire, England, and grew up on the Moray Firth coast of Scotland. At age 13 he became a resident student at the Royal Ballet School. His direct contemporaries at the school included Alessandra Ferri and Jonathan Cope, choreographers Michael Clark and Russell Maliphant, actress Caroline O'Connor, director of the Royal Ballet Kevin O'Hare, and academic Deborah Bull. He graduated in 1980, aged 18. Biography UK In 1980 he joined the Northern Ballet Theatre. Under artistic director, Robert de Warren, and choreographers, André Prokovsky, Geoffrey Cauley, Michael Pink and Christopher Gable, he danced in the corps de ballet and as a soloist until the end of the summer 1984. After leaving the Northern Ballet Theatre, Channing worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Julian Chagrin
Julian Chagrin; (born 22 February 1940), also credited as Julian Joy-Chagrin, is a British-Israeli comedy actor. Biography Chagrin was born in London. His father was the composer and conductor Francis Chagrin, who was born to Jewish parents in Bucharest, Romania, while his mother was Irish. He attended St Marylebone Grammar School and subsequently the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. At the age of 17, Chagrin performed as a straight man to comedian Vic Oliver with whom he toured in England, Ireland and South Africa. In the late 1950s, he moved to Paris where he went on to study pantomime with Jacques Lecoq. After returning to the UK, he performed in mime comedy ''Chaganog''. Chagrin is best known as one of the tennis-playing mimes in the 1966 cult film ''Blowup'', and as the 'secret lemonade drinker' in a popular advert for R. White's lemonade in the 1970s. After appearing in films such as ''Danger Route'' (1967), '' The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom'' (1968) and ''Alfred t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Peter Bramley (director)
Peter Bramley (Doncaster, England) is an actor, director and theatre maker. He held the post of Head of Movement at Rose Bruford College, a drama school in Kent, for 12 years. He is the artistic director of theatre company Pants on Fire. Bramley trained in drama at Doncaster College and Royal Holloway University, before going to train at the L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. During Bramley's second year at the school in 1999 Jacques Lecoq died, making him one of the final ever students to have trained with Lecoq himself. In addition, Bramley has trained with both the Gardzienice company in Poland and Song of the Goat, and has an MA in theatre practices. As a teacher, Peter Bramley has worked in many leading Uk Drama schools, including Central School of Speech and Drama, LAMDA and LIPA, and has given workshops internationally at Yale University, the Moscow Arts Theatre School in Russia, DAMU Prague, Institut del Teatre Barcelona, Spain, and for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Luc Bondy
Luc Bondy (17 July 1948 – 28 November 2015) was a Swiss theatre and film director. Life and career upright=1.3, '' Charlotte Salomon'' at the Salzburg Festival 2014 Trained in Paris with the theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq, he received a job in 1969 as an assistant at the Hamburg Thalia Theatre. In a surprise, he took over in 1985 after the resignation of Peter Stein at the Schaubühne in Berlin. He also worked as a producer of both plays and operas at the Salzburg Festival, and in 1985 as a director at the Vienna Festival. He was the director of the most recent version of ''Tosca'', by Puccini, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Both the opera, as well as the director, were greeted by loud boos on opening night, 21 September 2009. The reception was generally negative. James Levine, the music director at the Metropolitan Opera likened the production to a 'Hitchcock movie' and the cultural critic for the ''New York Times'', Charles McGrath, felt that the new production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Malachi Bogdanov
Malachi Bogdanov is a theatre director. He was Associate Director of the English Shakespeare Company (1997–2000), and directed international tours of productions including A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Threepenny Opera, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus and an award-winning production of Richard the Third (UK and Australian Tour – Herald Angel for best production at the Edinburgh Festival). Currently a freelance artist, he has directed over 70 professional shows and works all over the world. In 2003. he wrote and directed Bill Shakespeare's Italian Job at the Edinburgh Festival and was the subject of a BBC documentary. In 2004, it also toured to the Neuss International Shakespeare Festival in Germany as well as returning to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. He has directed a number of shows for the Neuss festival including his productions of Macbeth Kill Shakespeare (2004) and a new adaptation of Marlowe's Edward the Second (2006). That same year, Malachi directed "Mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Steven Berkoff
Steven Berkoff (born Leslie Steven Berks; 3 August 1937) is an English actor, author, playwright, theatre practitioner and theatre director. As a theatre maker he is recognised for staging work with a heightened performance style known as "Berkovian theatre", which combines elements of physical theatre, total theatre and expressionism. His work has sometimes been viewed as an example of in-yer-face theatre, due to the intense presentation and taboo-breaking material in a number of his plays. As a screen actor, he is known for his performances in villainous roles, including the portrayals of General Orlov in the ''James Bond'' film ''Octopussy'' (1983), Victor Maitland in '' Beverly Hills Cop'' (1984), Lt. Col. Podovsky in '' Rambo: First Blood Part II'' (1985) and Adolf Hitler in '' War and Remembrance'' (1988–89). Early life Berkoff was born Leslie Steven Berks on 3 August 1937, in Stepney in the East End of London, the son of Pauline "Polly" (née Hyman), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Cirque Du Soleil
Cirque du Soleil (, ; ) is a Canadian entertainment company and the largest contemporary circus producer in the world. Located in the inner-city area of Saint-Michel, Montreal, Saint-Michel, Montreal, it was founded in Baie-Saint-Paul on 16 June 1984 by former street performers Guy Laliberté and Gilles Ste-Croix. Originating as a performing troupe called ''Les Échassiers'' (; "The Stilt Walkers"), they toured Quebec in various forms between 1979 and 1983. Their initial financial hardship was relieved in 1983 by a government grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to perform as part of the 450th anniversary celebrations of Jacques Cartier's voyage to Canada. Their first official production ''Le Grand Tour du Cirque du Soleil'' was a success in 1984, and after securing a second year of funding, Laliberté hired Guy Caron from the École nationale de cirque, National Circus School to recreate it as a "proper circus". Its theatrical, character-driven approach and the absence of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
