After being such good performers of mime, it’s time to end series of mime classes under the guidance of Mike Wenzel.
Today you are gonna train some Mime routines, and at the same time, you will learn how to distinguish mime from an old form of street culture, and that’s clownery. I leave gentlemen Pierrot and Harlequin for some other time…
Time for a new class of mime exercises by Mike Wenzel, simply to get you more into the corporal structure of this art form…
To understand truly the way body and muscles behave in mime you need several lessons of basic bodily isolation and to practice some elemental movements… this takes you to the next level of your sense of embodiment and body control…
Etienne Decroux as Smart Object
After school of the Mime basics, it’s time to learn something about that how you can put makeup in order to look like a real Mime performer…
It could be very useful for performers which are willing to express themselves in some other performative forms, such as Butoh, Noh, Peking opera or Indian classic dances… for example… Of course, Chinese and Indian tradition have more complex procedure of putting makeup, or may I say, making precise ornaments on their faces…
Illustration: Mime Alphabet Book by Nina & Cathy Gasiorowicz (1974)
Mime is essentially one of the oldest expression technique in human history, and if I would have to start now explaining all aspects of mime… (in Europe we call it Pantomine! Mr. Marcel Marceau would probably yell at us… while Mr. Ladislav Fialka would smile out loud… just kiddin’) … well, I could write for weeks only about it…
Therefore, in order to learn something new from free viral tools, I decided to post here the school of mime (pantomime) by artist Mark Wenzel from San Diego… He’s respectable street performer and Stanford Research Institute collaborator…
Marcel Marceau
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