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A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor"), [1] is a person who uses mime (also called pantomime outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.
The three eventually formed Britain's first all-female mime troupe, Three Women Mime Company, re-inventing the form and bringing a female point of view to mime's classic "everyman" clown. Lily performed with 'Three Women' in the UK and Europe for three years with shows High Heels and Follies Berserk and appeared at the London International Mime ...
Marcel Marceau (French: [maʁsɛl maʁso]; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years.
In 1974, she founded the London Mime Theatre with Matthew Ridout, with whom she has worked ever since. Nola and Joseph Seelig were the original instigators of the London International Mime Festival, which is held in January each year, and has been running since 1977. Rae premiered her first solo show at Le Festival du Monde in Nancy in 1975.
Shields and Yarnell's specialty was a series of skits called The Clinkers, in which they assumed the personae of robots, with many individual, deliberate motions (as opposed to normal smooth motion) stereotypical of robots and early animatronics, enhanced by their ability to refrain from blinking their eyes for long stretches of time.
3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists in this expansive survey at Tate Britain, but some of the work on display only underlines the ...
Bari Rolfe (July 20, 1916 – October 19, 2002) was an American dancer, choreographer, mime artist, and educator. Rolfe studied mime in Paris, and beginning in the 1960s taught it at University of California, Los Angeles, California State University, Northridge, and University of Washington in Seattle. She wrote several books on mime.
The 20-foot sculpture, made from tambourines, was inspired by "Florida Storm," a 1928 hymn written by Judge Jackson, as well as accounts of the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane referenced in Zora Neale ...