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Castaway
1 appearance
Mime artist who founded a school of mime and has toured the world performing the visual art of mime.
On the island
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:09A few years ago you formed a school of mime. Does it still operate?
Well, uh it's rather difficult now because I'm touring … I am on a world tour, but we had approximately eighty pupils coming from all over the world, especially Americans … also South Americans, French, of course, Italians, Germans … And we had seven teachers, because for the mime art we have also to exercise with classic dance … Modern dance, jazz, of course, uh fencing … Acrobacy and of course the mime technique.
Presenter asks
0:48How close is mime to [dance]?
It's a different technique, but of course it's it is a visual art. It involves the complete body. We have a complete technique by our own … But I would say that dance is the art of movement and you leap in the air to lose weight and to freedom your body through jumping in the air … And the mime is more attached to the floor. It's a slower technique. It's the art of attitude … And in this aspect it can be also more dramatic. But both arts have many things in common … specially [modern] dance today … many movements on the floor you see when you look at Bejar or the modern even [Martha] Graham … and Robbins … But um … Mime involves also to be an actor … You have to play situations and to act … and to express it with body movements.
“It's a different technique, but of course it's it is a visual art. It involves the complete body.”
“the mime is more attached to the floor. It's a slower technique. It's the art of attitude.”
“Mime involves also to be an actor. You have to play situations and to act … and to express it with body movements.”