THE LIFE OF JACQUES LECOQ Jacques Lecoq (1921¿99) Jacques Lecoq: actor, director and teacher Jacques Lecoq and the Western tradition of actor training Jacques Lecoq: the body and culture Summary and conclusion THE TEXTS OF JACQUES LECOQ Lecoq¿s pedagogy: from practice to principles (and back) Acting for the theatre of the future End words TRACES OF JACQUES LECOQ: TH¿TRE DE COMPLICIT¿S STREET OF CROCODILES AND THE WORK OF MUMMENSCHANZ The case of Th¿re de Complicit¿/P> The Street of Crocodiles The case of Mummenschanz PRACTICAL EXERCISES Aims Background and context Approach Preparatory exercises I push . I pull : towards the dynamics of melodrama I am pushed . I am pulled : towards the dynamics of tragedy I push myself . I pull myself : towards the dynamics of commedia dell¿arte Debrief CONCLUSION.