Mime artist
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A mime artist, or simply mime (from
Jacques Copeau, strongly influenced by Commedia dell'arte and Japanese Noh theatre, used masks in the training of his actors. His pupil Étienne Decroux was highly influenced by this, started exploring and developing the possibilities of mime, and developed corporeal mime into a highly sculptural form, taking it outside the realms of naturalism. Jacques Lecoq contributed significantly to the development of mime and physical theatre with his training methods.[2] As a result of this, the practice of mime has been included in the Inventory of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in France since 2017.[3]
History
Ancient Greece and Rome
The performance of mime originates at its earliest in
Medieval Europe
In Medieval Europe, early forms of mime such as
In non-Western theatre
Analogous performances are evident in the theatrical traditions of other civilizations.[
Formats
In film
Before the work of
On stage and street
Mime has been performed on stage, with
In literature
Canadian author Michael Jacot's first novel, The Last Butterfly, tells the story of a mime artist in Nazi-occupied Europe who is forced by his oppressors to perform for a team of Red Cross observers.[11] Nobel laureate Heinrich Böll's The Clown relates the downfall of a mime artist, Hans Schneir, who has descended into poverty and drunkenness after being abandoned by his beloved.[12]
List of mime artists
- Samuel Avital
- Steven Banks[13]
- Jean-Louis Barrault
- Blue Man Group
- Wolfe Bowart
- Tony Brown
- Charlie Chaplin
- Michel Courtemanche
- Adam Darius
- Jean-Gaspard Deburau
- Étienne Decroux
- Ryan Drummond
- Jogesh Dutta[14]
- Ladislav Fialka
- Dario Fo
- George L. Fox
- Chris Harris
- Bill Irwin
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Doug Jones
- Buster Keaton
- Lindsay Kemp
- Stan Laurel
- Thomas Leabhart
- Grigory Gurevich
- Jacques Lecoq
- Paul Legrand
- Tina Lenert
- Partha Pratim Majumder
- Marcel Marceau
- Ennio Marchetto
- Kari Margolis
- Carlos Martínez
- Harpo Marx
- Irene Mawer
- Samy Molcho
- Tony Montanaro
- Mummenschanz
- Stefan Niedziałkowski
- Adrian Pecknold
- Lenka Pichlíková-Burke
- Slava Polunin
- Oleg Popov
- Nola Rae
- Bari Rolfe
- Gene Sheldon
- Richmond Shepard
- Shields and Yarnell
- Red Skelton
- Steam Powered Giraffe
- Daniel Stein
- Marko Stojanović
- Jacques Tati
- Pan Tau
- Modris Tenisons[15]
- Tik and Tok
- Henryk Tomaszewski
- Dick Van Dyke
- Sam Wills
- Vahram Zaryan
- Achille Zavatta
See also
- Busking
- Corporeal mime
- Dumbshow
- Lip sync
- Liquid and digits
- Sociae Mimae
- Mummers play
- Pantomime
- Popping
- Physical theatre
- Turfing
References
- ^ μῖμος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library
- ISBN 1-85459-630-6.
- ^ "Patrimoine-culturel-immateriel". www.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
- ^ Lust, Annette. "The Origins and Development of the Art of Mime". From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond: Mimes, Actors, Pierrots and Clowns: A Chronicle of the Many Visages of Mime in the Theatre. 9 March 2000. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
- ^ "Mime and pantomime | visual art". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ a b c d H Nettleship ed., A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (London 1894) p. 393
- ^ H J Rose, A Handbook of Latin Literature (London 1967) p. 152
- ^ Broadbent, R. J. (1901) A History of Pantomime, Chapter VI. London. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
- ^ H J Rose, A Handbook of Latin Literature (London 1967) p. 150
- ^ G Highet, Juvenal the Satirist (Oxford 1962) p. 274
- ^ Broyard, Anatole. "A Laugh Before Dying." The New York Times. 7 March 1974. p. 37
- ^ Stern, Daniel. "Without Shmerz." The New York Times. 4 January 1965. Book Review. p. 4
- ^ Scpr.org Retrieved 29 April 2015
- ^ "Mime wizard's final act", The Times of India. 22 August 2009. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
- ^ "Modris Tenisons: Režisors un scenogrāfs, dizaina mākslinieks, profesionāla pantomīmas teātra izveidotājs Kauņā." 2003. Retrieved 6 October 2010.
Further reading
- Kipnis, Claude (1988). The mime book (2nd ed.). Colorado Springs, Colo.: Meriwether Pub. ISBN 0916260550.
External links
- World Mime Index
- International mime theatre information
- MOVEO, international school of corporeal mime and physical theatre in Barcelona
- International Theatre School Jacques Lecoq Archived 31 May 2020 at the Wayback Machine
- London International School of Performing Arts
- Innovo Conservatory of Physical Theatre