ABSTRACT
Time at the Jacques Lecoq School is a form of distance travelled, a series of changes and transformations, meetings and departures. The early 1980s was a time in the author life that was and will always be inhabited by Lecoq and by the teachers and students at the School at that time. Lecoq writes about his hope that the training will allow students ‘to be consummate livers of life’. Whilst Lecoq never belittled the deeper history of the exercises he taught, he realized that some students found it difficult, even without the history being explicitly raised, to move beyond feelings of reverence for some of the forms. Lecoq has become a different kind of fixed point than the kind of which he so often spoke in his classes. Jean Daste went on to establish his own company after the Second World War, to which, in 1948, he recruited the young Lecoq as an actor and movement director.
