The Jacques Lecoq School, founded in December 1956, is an international professional school of Mime and Theater based on movement and the human body.

As a school of dramatic creation, it relies on knowledge of the organic and emotional dynamics of man and nature.

It is primarily directed towards Theatre and a Mime that is renewed and broadened by each creator.

It confronts the pupils with themselves, arousing their curiosity and imagination, helping them to go deeply into their requirements by clarifying their ideas and choices.

The teaching method takes the form of a "journey" towards the discovery of dramatic phenomena¾silent, sound, and spoken.

Words and gesture are linked in the event of the same movement.

Mask work is essential in the school's pedagogy. It heightens and simplifies the psychological acting, at the same time magnifying and deepening the sense of beings and things.

Greek Tragedy and Commedia dell'Arte are indispensable references for the actor's playing today; we discover their value as a function of our imagination.

The school concerns itself with theatre to be created; this theatre belongs to the pupils, their ideas, their quest.

The school is intended for persons of a certain maturity who have finished their studies. It is essential to understand French to attend the classes.

The course lasts two years and a third year is devoted to pedagogy. There is no entrance examination, but the first term (October, November, December) is a trial period during which both the School and the pupils decide whether the pupil is to continue or not.

The quality of work the first year determines whether the pupils move on to a second year. A certificate of completed study is awarded after two years.

Classes begin in October and finish at the end of June; They take up five half-days a week. The same philosophy of teaching links all the lessons, they which are taught by a team of teachers who have themselves studied at the School. More than 50 nations have been represented there, and its teaching method is used in France and abroad in numerous establishments and Theatre Schools.