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Ballet is a formalized type of performance dance, which originated in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century French courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form. The early performances preceded the intervention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with most of the audience seated on tiers or galleries on three sides of the dancing floor. The early ballet dancers were not as highly skilled as they are now. It has since become a highly technical form of dance with its own vocabulary. It is primarily performed with the accompaniment of classical music. It has been influential as a form of dance globally and is taught in ballet schools around the world, which use their own cultures and societies to inform the art. Ballet dance works ballets are choreographed and performed by trained artists, include mime and acting, and are set to music usually orchestral but occasionally vocal. It is a poised style of dance that incorporates the foundational techniques for many other dance styles. ... Read more

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Busking is the practice of performing in public places for tips and gratuities. People engaging in this practice are calledbuskers orstreet performers. Busking performances can be just about anything that people find entertaining. Buskers may do acrobatics, animal tricks, balloon twisting, card tricks, clowning, comedy, contortions & escapes, dance, fire eating, fortune-telling, juggling, magic, mime and a mime variation where the artist performs as a living statue, musical performance, puppeteering, snake charming, storytelling or recite poetry or prose as a bard, street art (sketching and painting, etc.), street theatre, sword swallowing, and general enjoyable entertainment. ... Read more

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These international mime artists, trained in Paris by Marcel Marceau, have taught mime workshops around the world. This video and workbook program presents a comprehensive series of mime exercises for student practice and review. Each technique is explained step-by-step in the illustrated book and shown clearly and slowly on the video. Some techniques include: Body Positioning: feet and hand isolations, forward, backward, side inclinations and rotation: Communicating with the Body: the chest, feet, head, hands, pelvis, waist: The Living Character: breath, transfer of weight, rhythm, the stop, the seed, the robot. Also includes the techniques of creating an illusion, object identification and gestural coloration and decoloration. An excellent resource for learning mime technique. ... Read more

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Excellent reference, how to steps and illustrations
A look inside this book gives one a complete understanding how complex or intricate the world of mime is.It is called the "art of silence" because mime uses the body to communicate or telling a story without words.

Numerous pictures fill the pages with many focusing on body orhand movements.This book has a companion video.

Included in the text is an introduction, glossary of terms, bibliography and SEVEN chapters on instruction.

The chapters are titled:Body Positioning, The Body that Talks:Building Characters - communication and symbolism of the entire body.

Sculpting the Body covers equilibrium, character construction and how the body gets into a position such as fear.The Living Character chapter involves breath, rhythm, resistance, etc.

Big, Bigger, and Biggest details coloration, decoloration, gestual coloration, etc.Coloration is described as "the augmentation of a thought without the destruction of thought."

Object Identification will explain identification, the flower, the rock, etc.And the last, Illusion - creating illusion, techniques of, illusions of transfer, object illusion, etc.

The video follows the book's techniques to master communication with clear definition and a how to understanding of mime. You will also hear the French terminology.

I can't imagine there being a better set than this......Rizzo ... Read more

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One of the few studies covering the historical flow of mime from its beginnings to postmodern movement theatre, this book explores the evolution of mime and pantomime from the Greeks to the 20th Century, depicting the role of mime in dance, clowning, the cinema, and verbal theatre throughout the centuries. With over sixty illustrations, this worldwide study is indispensable for the student, teacher, or fan of mime. ... Read more

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Economical and Entertaining
Of all the books written about Marcel Marceau and other great mimes, this is the most developed. Annette Lust presents the history of the artists with clarity and sustained interest. Her timeline is impeccable and her characters lively. Her power is particularly evident when Marcel Marceau is introduced. The pantomime'sgenius is apparent in every sentence, and the author highlights the purity of his timing. Marceau, like his 1947 creation `Bip', is seen as enigmatic, and I agree with Annette's assessment. I had the good fortune to meet Monsieur Marceau when we were both guests on the 'Tonight Show' with Johnny Carson in 1988. Marcel was naturally reticent, so Carson filled the silences with bird calls and beverage gargling. Near the end of the interview, the frustrated host asked Marcel to explain his miming philosophy. Marcel looked at me, pondered briefly and replied, "." Impressed, Carson announced effusively, "Fantastic! I couldn't have said it better myself." So I was somewhat surprised when, during the ad break, Johnny dragged me off-stage and fumed, "Schwarz, can you believe that clown? I thought he'd never shut up!" ... Read more

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Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader is an invaluable resource for students of physically orientated theatre and performance. This book aims to trace the roots and development of physicality in theatre by combining practical experience of the field with a strong historical and theoretical underpinning.

In exploring the histories, cross-overs and intersections of physical theatres, this critical Reader provides:

• six new, specially commissioned essays, covering each of the book’s main themes, from technical traditions to contemporary practises
• discussion of issues such as the foregrounding of the body, training and performance processes, and the origins of theatre in both play and human cognition
• a focus on the relationship and tensions between the verbal and the physical in theatre
• contributions from Augusto Boal, Stephen Berkoff, Étienne Decroux, Bertolt Brecht, David George, J-J. Rousseau, Ana Sanchez Colberg, Michael Chekhov, Jeff Nuttall, Jacques Lecoq, Yoshi Oida, Mike Pearson, and Aristotle.

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Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction is the first account to provide a comprehensive overview of non text-based theatre, from experimental dance to traditional mime. This book synthesizes the history, theory and practice of physical theatres for students and performers, in what is both a core area of study and a dynamic and innovative aspect of theatrical practice.

This comprehensive book:

• traces the roots of physical performance in classical and popular theatrical traditions
• looks at the Dance Theatre of DV8, Pina Bausch, Liz Aggiss and Jérôme Bel
• examines the contemporary practice of companies such as Théatre du Soleil, Complicité and Goat Island
• focuses on principles and practices in actor training, with reference to figures such as Jacques Lecoq, Lev Dodin, Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux, Etienne Decroux, Anne Bogart and Joan Littlewood.

Physical Theatres: A Critical Introduction can be used as a standalone text, or together with its companion volume, Physical Theatres: A Critical Reader, to provide an invaluable introduction to the physical in theatre and performance.

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This digital document is an article from Dance Magazine, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2007. The length of the article is 472 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Marcel Marceau.(DEATHS)(Obituary)
Author: Wendy Perron
Publication: Dance Magazine (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 81Issue: 12Page: 120(1)

Article Type: Obituary

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Illustrated by Lotte Goslar herself, this extraordinary book provides, through her vivid sketch-like texts, a moving and humorous account of her life during a traumatic period in world history. Her acute observations of daily human foibles and vanities are interspersed with her interactions with major figures (Palucca, Voskovec and Werich, Brecht, Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester, Hans Sahl, and Marilyn Monroe), revealing to the reader the world of a great artist in movement and mime.
What's So Funny? includes texts by Horst Koegler, Voskovec and Werich, Joel Schechter, and Bertolt Brecht. ... Read more

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From the beginning of all time there has been implanted in the human breast the Dramatic instinct full of life and of vigour, and finding undoubtedly its outlet, in the early days of civilization, if not in the Dramatic Art then in the poetry of motion with that necessary and always essential concomitant of both—Pantomime. ... Read more

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The first point of reference for primary material on Etienne Decroux, the father of 'corporeal mime' and pioneer of body training. This 'Source book' combines primary material by Decroux himself with seminal critical texts. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The theatre of ancient Rome refers to dramatic performances performed in Rome and its dominions during classical antiquity. Ancient Roman theatre was heavily influenced by the Greek tradition, and as with many other literary genres Roman dramatists tended to adapt and translate from the Greek. For example, Seneca's Phaedra was based on that of Euripides, and many of the comedies of Plautus were direct translations of works by Menander. The Romans were more interested in comedy however and many found tragedies to be boring and too depressing for the stage. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Pantomime (informally, panto) (not to be confused with a mime artist, referring to a theatrical performer of mime) is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, Japan, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the Christmas and New Year season.A pantomimos in Greece was originally a group who 'imitated all' (panto- - all, mimos - mimic) accompanied by sung narrative and instrumental music, often played on the flute. The word later came to be applied to the performance itself. The pantomime was a popular form of entertainment in ancient Greece and, later, Rome. ... Read more

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Angna Enters was one of America's most versatile andgifted artists--dancer/mime, painter, sculptor, costume and setdesigner, musician, screenwriter, and best-selling author. For overforty years, European and American audiences celebrated her unique andbrilliant theatre performances as well as the annual exhibits of herpaintings in such cities as New York, Los Angeles, and London. Hertravels were documented in newspapers on both American coasts, and herimage filled the pages of Life and Vogue. The nation's most respectedcritics acclaimed her books, and her public watched her comings andgoings in Hollywood with great interest. But her private life was herown mystery, kept from her audiences and her readers, even from thosefew luminaries who felt they knew her well.

Angna maintained her friendships with Alfred Stieglitz and DorothyNorman solely through her elegant and personal letters. And friendssuch as Judith Anderson, Greer Garson, Fanny Brice, and Albert andMillie Lewin knew only her business address. Enters' home was aManhattan apartment which she shared with her secret, lifetimecompanion, the journalist and art critic Louis Kalonyme, who gave uphis own career to serve as her secretary, business manager, confidant,and lover. He retained close contacts with only a few of hisfriends--Stieglitz and Georgia O'Keeffe, Eugene O'Neill, and JohnMarin.

Uncommon Eloquence is a meticulously researched portrait ofthis complex, elusive, and incredibly talented woman. Dorothy Mandelpresents us with glimpses of the behind-the-scenes travails of Angna'scross-country tours of the U.S. and her many appearances in Europe,the poverty of her early years as an artist in Greenwich Village, herchurning out chapters of books in crowded hotel lobbies and trainstations during World War II, her dramatic escape from her home inMalaga at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and her struggleswith the bureaucracy of Hollywood in the 1940s.

Confronted with her diversified and unique talents, critics tried fordecades to classify Enters' artistry, but no one ever succeeded. AngnaEnters was a loner in the art world, going her own way to create herown special reality in the arts. Mandel has captured the drive, thefrustrations, and the strength of this fascinating, solitaryperformer. ... Read more