ABSTRACT
Jacques Lecoq's teaching has directly or indirectly influenced most of the examples: Theatre de Complicite, Ariane Mnouchkine and Theatre du Soleil, Robert Lepage and Julie Taymor. Within his own very particular territory of preparing students to make theatre, Lecoq inevitably is shadowing some of the major cultural debates of his time. When Lecoq speaks of theatre's 'universal laws', he is acknowledging, the traditions and historical conventions upon which his teaching is based. Although Lecoq's school is often thought of as having made a major contribution to the rise of what, it is important to recall that he spent much of his life working against the grain and as an 'unorthodox outsider'. Given his constant stress on preparation, rather than the inculcation of technique, it is to be expected that there would be a degree of fluidity to both his precepts and daily practice.
