Jacques Lecoq, a mime, theatre director and influential teacher, died on Jan. 19 at a hospital in Paris. He was 77 and lived in Paris.

Unearthly Movement at large
The Times, 1 April 1988

In an article reviewing the Tout Bouge, which kicked off the ten-week International Festival in 1988, Irving Wadle tells us about how Jacques Lecoq packed a lifetime's observation of body movement into 90 minutes.

French master of mime meets the governor in Salem
The Oregon Statesman, 18 August 1978

Lecoq's fourth visit to the United States in 1978 brought him to Oregon to visit his former student, Richard Hayes-Marshall. In this article describing his stay in Portland, Lecoq discusses the "vitality" he finds in his American students.

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