Mime and Pantomime
THE UNIQUE ART OF PANTOMIME
"In the age of noise we live in, it is sometimes wise to listen to what silence has to tell us." Avital
It is no paradox that in a world full of noise, of commercial and inane advertising, the silence calls to us. Man, the artist, deeply concerned with his art, searches out the original spiritual s...
Corporeal mime
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One subgroup of physical theater is corporeal mime. Its objective is to place drama inside the moving human body, rather than to substitute gesture for speech as in pantomime. In this medium, the mime must apply to physical movement those principles that are at...
THE EVOLUTION OF MIME
Mime has similar origins to both drama and the dance. When the storyteller was at a loss for words, gesture took over. Because of its character as an instinctive part of the makeup of a human being, mime must, of course, have existed in some form as long as recognizable men have walked the earth. It...
LE MIME ?...
Mime is the actor, its acting before it is corrupted by speech. Mime is the substance of theatre as opposed to its accident, literature. By learning the axioms of the body and experimenting harmony and virtuosity, mimes perform as they would and not just as they could. From the very inception of a t...
Mime artist
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A mime artist (from Greek "μίμος"—mimos, "imitator, actor")[1] is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a...
NOTES ABOUT CORPOREAL MIME
BACKGROUND
Mime is the most ancient performing Art in the world and, still today, attracts people in a very deep, intuitive way. Why? In its portrayal of emotion, thought and experience through the body, mime transcends cultural barriers because it is based on expression and not on appearance. Mime...