1st Edition
Imagining Bodies and Performer Training The Legacies of Jacques Lecoq and Gaston Bachelard
1. Jacques Lecoq and Gaston Bachelard: Towards a Training Paradigm for the Embodied Life of Imagining 2. AIR: Imagination as a Worldly Process 3. FIRE: Inflaming the Imagining Attitude 4. EARTH: Penetrating the Depths of the Resistant World and the Will to Action 5. WATER: Co-poiesis and the Will to Expression 6. REPERCUSSIONS: Eco-futures for Imagining Bodies
Biography
Ellie Nixon is Director of Film and Performing Arts at Norwich University of the Arts, UK, and an actor, director and co-founder of La Mancha Theatre Company and La Mancha International Theatre School of Image and Gesture in Chile.
"In this very impressive book Nixon weaves her chosen elements together with great assuredness and creative acumen. Imagining Bodies is many things: a theoretical guide to where Lecoq and Bachelard meet; a sharing of the practical utility of air, fire, earth, and water; a primer on imagination; a personal, reflective account of a long-standing Lecoq-inspired practice; and a repository of fascinating practitioner interviews. In less capable hands, this could be a confusing mix. But here, ideas accumulate and mix in highly productive and stimulating ways for the reader."
Professor Jonathan Pitches, Head of School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds
