See also: MIME (homonymy)
MIME is associated with arts of the Théâtre.
The MIME is an actor and the shape of theater whose principal expression are the attitude, the gesture, mimicry.
It consists in interpreting a piece of life without words or with few words, the principal weight of the expression having to be carried by the languages of the body. Thus the spectator must it feel the thoughts and the interior life of the actor without the assistance of the articulated language. The techniques of the MIME can go from the simple imitation or evocation to a choreographic research which cannot be " traduite" in words.
There exist alternatives with gestures of Automate S which the actors reproduce with wonder (Jacky Mane in is recordman of the world in 18:32 mn ).
In England, a mime is a part of Christmas for the children, with songs.
In 1956 Jacques Lecoq creates a school of the MIME in Paris, and in 1978, Marcel Marceau (1923-2007) creates his.
Mime
- Jean-Georges Noverre, reformer of the Ballet, devotes several of its Lettres on the dance (1760) to the art of the mime to the 18th century.
- Diderot, in its book the Nephew of Branch , illustrates with many recoveries the mime. who is in connection with the MIME and the theater. Langlois William Pierre
Famous mimes
- Isaac Alvarez
- Jean-Louis Barrault
- Charlie Chaplin
- Deburau
- Etienne Decroux
- Buster Keaton
- Jacques Lecoq
- Marcel Marceau
- Carlos Martínez
- Harpo Marx
- Robert Shields
- Baptist Deburau
- Langlois, William Pierre
See too
Related articles
- Dramatic ballet
- Mibu kyōgen
- Gestural of the fingers and the hands
External bonds
- Reproduction of an encyclopedic article of Daremberg and Saglio (1877) on the MIME in the ancient theater
- Mimos, International festival of the MIME of Périgueux official site
Simple: MIME
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