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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 ...
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.
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.
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.
LIMF was founded at the Cockpit Theatre by mime/clown Nola Rae MBE and producer/manager/artistic director Joseph Seelig OBE as a one-off event to showcase the work of British mimes, theatre clowns and other physical and visual theatre artists. A second festival followed in 1978, this time including overseas’ artists.
Harry Langdon (June 15, 1884 – December 22, 1944) – American silent film comedian and mime; Jacques Tati (October 9, 1908 – November 5, 1982) – French comedian, mime and filmmaker; played the socially inept Monsieur Hulot; Keystone Cops – incompetent group of policemen created by Mack Sennett for his Keystone Film Company between 1912 ...
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The World Mime Organisation (WMO; French: Organisation Mondiale des Mimes, WMM) is a nonprofit organization that promotes the art of mime and nonverbal communication. It was officially registered on January 4, 2004, in Belgrade, Serbia (at that time still the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro ).