Enacting Lecoq

Maiya Murphy is a scholar, teacher, creator, and performer. She is Assistant Professor in the Theatre Studies Programme at the National University of Singapore. She has written on Lecoq pedagogy, cognitive science, collective creation, physical theatre approaches, and dance. She also makes theatre with her collective, Autopoetics.

“Compared to other texts in the field of theatre, Murphy’s Enacting Lecoq is unique both in its Enactivist approach and the way in which it focuses on the foundational versus executional abilities of the actor-creator. … it could be a hugely important text for graduate students in Theatre Education, Movement Pedagogy, Applied Theatre, as well as acting teachers, whose students will deeply benefit from an incorporation of Murphy’s insights into their pedagogy.” (Jordan Rosin,Theatre Topics, Vol. 31 (1), March, 2021)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Crafting Necessary Temptations and Needful Freedoms: Lecoq’s Actor-Instructor Relationship.- 3. Enacting Cognitive and Creative Foundations.- 4. Lecoq’s Mime and the Process of Identifications: Enacting Movement, Selfhoods, and Otherness.- 5. Significant Practices and Principles: Play, Improvisation, Mask Work, and Language.- 6. Conclusion: “Beautiful, beautiful, but where are you going?”.