Dialogue, language, learning LO25264

From: Barry Mallis (theorgtrainer@earthlink.net)
Date: 08/31/00


Replying to LO25252 --

Winfried,

Thanks for your wonderful explanation of eurythmy. You brought forth in me
the watershed year in my life of 53 years when I spent ten months studying
with Jacques Lecoq at his theater school in Paris.

Mime was not an end, but a means. We "moved" colors--not something that IS
green, but green itself. We moved the four elements of earth, air, water
and fire. We heard about the "house of calm," where angles, spaces and
colors combined to bring to the fore the best in its inhabitants.

We came to grips with the power of movement, how each of us speaks the
very same language, and how we most often shield our seeing ears from that
language for fear of observing the intimate knowledge of another's inner
being expressed through the universal language of movement.

For seven years I taught mime and movement to high school students here in
the United States. When I left that teaching, and moved to the business
world, I saw the same language in a new environment. And the wheel turns
round.

In a summer issue of Fast Company, one of my teachers at Lecoq was covered
in a long article about bringing to business this "language" you and I
describe. Philippe Gaulier now works in London, using movement as a means
to teach presence, assertiveness, inner understanding.

Best regards,
Barry Mallis
theorgtrainer@earthlink.net

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