2000 "The Moving Body" Teaching creative theatre
 
The LEM
 
 
Laboratory of Movement Study.
As an extension of the courses given by Jacques Lecoq to the architect students at the Paris School for Fine Arts (Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts), a stage design department was set up as an ancillary part of the Jacques Lecoq School of Theatre and is the result of a joint effort carried out with the architect, Krikor Belekian. The LEM officially opened in 1977.
Teachers : Krikor Belekian and Pascale Lecoq, both architects and stage designers.

The LEM department is directed by the architects and stage designers : Krikor Belekian and Pascale Lecoq.

What is the LEM ?
 
The Laboratory of Movement Study (L.E.M.) is a separate department of the School. It is particularly intended for the dynamic study of space and rhythm through plastic representation.
The aim is to discover the movement of colours, forms and structures and to apply this knowledge to scenography.

It is through movement classes that the students perceive space, and then in practical work in the studios they build objects out of various materials (clay, wood, cardboard, paper, metal, etc...). These objects are elaborated to begin with by themes referring to the human body.

"This link with the body remains essential. Before discovering that which can be reasoned, the student discovers through his body the dynamic sensation which will enable him to reason better."

"To mime means to be at one with, to know more intimately by touching from within the rhythm and forces which organise and direct living beings and their dynamic expression as well as the organisation of things in the space within and without the body."

The students will then explore the field of colours and their space followed by passions and dramatic situations such as jealousy, pride, fear, anger, etc..., they are transposed into form, mask,and structure.

> The body and movement
> The body and space
> Feelings and colour
> Exhibition-cum-plays