Teresa Mock On Theatre Is A Place of Connection #16
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In today’s episode I’m talking with the amazing Teresa Mock, a multifaceted Twin Cities-based theatre artist and qualified teacher of the Lecoq pedagogy, one of the most successful and well-known pedagogies for actor-created, physical theatre. We talk about creating, teaching and directing theatre, The Lecoq Method, movement as a universal language, and theatre as a way of creating a place of shared understanding and connection for anyone and everyone.
Most recently she was seen at Open Eye Theatre performing her play The Uncertainty Principle. Directorial work includes: Ike Holter’s Hit the Wall (Mixed Precipitation 2019) and Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia (An Opera Theatre, rescheduled for 2022.) Mock’s company We Theater premiered The Shadow War, a culturally intersectional telling of The Secret War in Laos, in partnership with The Center for Hmong Studies. She holds an MFA in Lecoq-Based Actor-Created Theatre from Naropa University (Arthaus Berlin, formerly LISPA.) Mock is a 2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant recipient and member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
“In physical theatre, through movement, we distil something down to the essential element of it, creating a common understanding of an experience and a language that we all share.”
-Teresa Mock
We’re talking about…
Physical theatre and Lecoq's pedagogy.
The connection between teaching and directing.
The key role of a director in a devised piece.
Masks and Neutrality.
“As Lecoq said:
We all have 3 masks:
The one we think we are.
The one we truly are.
And the one we have in common.
The mask that we have in common is what we experience in a performance: this place of shared understanding and connection with every person.”
-Teresa Mock
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