SHORT COURSES

Saturday 29 February and Sunday 1st March 2020
With Jos Houben, actor, director and teacher, Eric Nesci, teacher at Jacques Lecoq School,
and Pascale Lecoq, director of the J. L. School and the LEM

Comic styles such as clowning, the absurd and nonsense are studied at the end of the two years at the Lecoq school. The neutral mask and the tiny red nosed mask of the clown book end the two year course. These two masks are used as pedagogical tools to create a spirit of play that students will carry with them in their own explorations even when they leave the masks themselves behind.

With Jos Houben we shall delve into the world of physical comedy and share in his most recent explorations. How do we manipulate space and movement to provoke laughter? Are there universal laws ? Principals ? Things we can rely on ? Why do certain shapes and forms, even in an abstract sense, make us laugh more than others and how can we use this knowledge constructively? This masterclass is open to creators of all disciplines who are interested in deepening their knowledge and experience in the world of physical comedy.

Jos Houben studied theatre at the Jacques Lecoq School. As an original member of Théâtre de Complicité he co-created and played in A Minute Too Late. In the mid nineties he writes for and directs the absurd comedy cult shows of the The Right Size. As an actor, Jos has collaborated on several music-theatre shows of contemporary composer Georges Aperghis. In 2007, he is one of the actors of Fragments, directed by Peter Brook. Since 2003 her travels all over the world with his celebrated one-man show The Art Of Laughter.

10 to 12 am / 2 to 6 pm / 12 hours / 300€