MOVEMENT IN SERVICE OF PLAY

This one-day intensive offers a hybrid of movement theory and physical practice—a unique opportunity for participants to immerse themselves in Jacques Lecoq’s* movement pedagogy. Lecoq’s choreographic gestures, The 20 Movements, will launch physical games and explorations of jeu (“play”). 

*L’école Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq is a physical theatre school in Avignon (formerly Paris)  where many of Pig Iron’s core faculty studied. The Pig Iron School is modeled in part after the Lecoq school.

About Anne Astolfe

As a stage director, Anne Astolfe founded LE LAABO, a workshop laboratory for movement and play. Her productions include HOLD ON (an audience favorite at the Avignon Festival), the 2nd play of the (EX) LIMEN Company (featured at the Les Enfents du Désordre festival), LE CIRCAETE, a drama inspired by the comic strip of Manu Larcenet (PULP festival), and RUSH (Théâtre de Châtillon).

After earning a degree in physical education and sport adapted for the handicapped at UFR‐STAPS in Lyon and theatrical training with the Macocco‐Lardenois Company, Anne Astolfe studied at the Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq (2002-2004), completing the teacher-training in 2007. In 2021 Anne went to l’Ecole Nationale des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre (ENSATT) in Lyon where she got her Master in sound design and conception. She has taught at the National Circus School of Rosny-sous-Bois, at the Drama school of Champigny-sur-Marne, and currently serves as director of the Ecole Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq.