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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. In earlier times, in English, such a performer would typically be ...
Marcel Marceau. Marcel Marceau (French pronunciation: [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.
Mime – A purple deer with a white-colored painted face and striped shirt. He means to be entertaining, but this results in others around him getting killed or getting self-killed. He means to be entertaining, but this results in others around him getting killed or getting self-killed.
There are traditionally three basic types of clowns that appear in the circus: the whiteface, the auguste and the character. A fourth type, the tramp or hobo clown, is often recognized separately, though similar to the other three types. Absolute definitions of what constitutes each clown type varies, with performers encompassing an extremely ...
Whiteface (performance) Whiteface is a type of performance in which a dark person uses makeup in order to appear white-skinned. [1] The term is a reversal of the form of performance known as blackface, in which makeup was used by a performer to make themselves look like a black person, usually to portray a stereotype.
Harlequinade is an English comic theatrical genre, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "that part of a pantomime in which the harlequin and clown play the principal parts". It developed in England between the 17th and mid-19th centuries. It was originally a slapstick adaptation or variant of the commedia dell'arte, which originated in ...
Charles Deburau. Jean-Charles Deburau (February 15, 1829 – December 19, 1873) was an important French mime, the son and successor of the legendary Jean-Gaspard Deburau, who was immortalized as Baptiste the Pierrot in Marcel Carné 's film Children of Paradise (1945). After his father's death in 1846, Charles kept alive his pantomimic legacy ...
Les Rossyann, white clown and clumsy Auguste from France. The white clown, or clown blanc in French, is a sophisticated character, as opposed to the clumsy Auguste. [25] [26] The two types are also distinguished as the sad clown (blanc) and happy clown (Auguste). [27] The Auguste face base makeup color is a variation of pink, red, or tan rather ...