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"The gesture and the word become identical at the level where they come together. A word must be charged with the impression of the body and not only define itself in terms of itself."
—Jacques Lecoq 1972

His school is a place of learning, play, and creation, drawing its observations from everyday life and from the dynamic phenomena of nature, recognized in the miming body. He considers mime as the school for the actor, and the actor as an author who must find his own style.

Being a school of movement, it helps the actors to discover the rules of theatrical play through tactical improvisation on all levels (from realism to abstraction) making the actor ready and open for the event of a given situation, a gesture, a word, provoking his imagination to invent a new form of language.

After Jacques Lecoq passed away in January 1999, several of us have began to exchange memories of him to celebrate his gift to us.