Jacques Lecoq

Trained during three years (97-00) with Jacques Lecoq at his École Internationale du Théâtre and at the Laboratoire d'Etude de Mouvement (LEM).Motivated by Jacques Lecoq he started a research about the tragic depth in the Commedia dell'Arte.At the same period (99-00) he is accepted by the mask master from the Conservatoire Nationale de Art Dramatique of Paris, Mario Gonzáles, former actor from Théâtre du Soleil.In summer 1999, he is impulse by his own research and he travel to Italy to study with Donato Sartori (sculptor and master in masks construction) at the Centro Maschere e Strutture Gestuali, Padova.There he started to discover the Gesture's Architecture and the Anthropology of the Mask.A few years later he started to collaborated as a teacher in theatre movement at the Centre of Sartori.

In 1998, in Paris, he found the International Theatre Company TEATRO PUNTO with actors from different European countries, all of them trained by Jacques Lecoq.In 2000 he moved the Company to Madrid where they opened two Commedia dell'Arte shows.

The mask is an essential pedagogical instrument that has been used by many of the greatest directors and theatre pedagogues on the occidental scene: Jacques Copeau, Jacques Lecoq, Dario Fo, Ariane Mnouchkine, Eugenio Barba, etc.
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-Trained with Jacques Lecoq and since then started a research about the tragic depth in the Commedia dell'Arte.