The year-end presentation at L’École Jacques Lecoq comprises of a series of investigations, or Les enquetes. These performances are built out of a continued and detailed interaction with a space of work or living. The space chosen was Cœur du Cinq, a space in Paris’s 5th arrondisement that is a place of service to those living in great precariousness, without a home, often on the streets. The troupe studied this space and performed a representation of the habitants of this space, their hopes, dreams, and stories.
More about L'École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq
Founded in 1956 by Jacques Lecoq, the school offers a professional and intensive two-year course emphasizing the body, movement and space as entry points in theatrical performance and prepares its students to create collaboratively. This method is called mimodynamics. The school's graduate list includes renowned figures of stage such as Ariane Mnouchkine of Théâtre du Soleil, Steven Berkoff and Simon McBurney of Théâtre de Complicité, among others.
“What he offered in his school was, in a word, preparation – of the body, of the voice, of the art of collaboration (of which theatre is the most extreme artistic representation) and of the imagination. He was interested in creating a site to build on, not a finished edifice.”
- Foreword to Lecoq’s “Le Corps Poetique” by Simon McBurney