Jacques le coq biography
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Lecoq’s interactions with patients taught him that the body remembers; that there was significance in knowing one’s body and how to use it. His work in rehabilitation and physiotherapy made him realise the potential of the body and steered his interest towards movement and physicality.
JAcques Lecoq’s first revelation of theatre was when he met Jean-Marie Conty at Bagatelle College for physical education.
By then, Conty was an international basketball player, a pilot for the Aéropostal Company with Saint-Exupery, and he was in charge of physical education for all of France.
Jacques le coq biography
To top it off, he was Jacques Lecoq’s passport to the discovery of mime. Conty was friends with Antonin Artaud as well as Jean-Louis Barrault, who was a director and actor who revived post-war French theatre.
Both artists exposed Conty to theatre and mime, instilling in him a curiosity about the bond between sports and physical expression. It was thanks to Conty that Lecoq discovered the