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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 has been performed on stage, with Marcel Marceau and his character "Bip" being the most famous. Mime is also a popular art form in street theatre and busking . Traditionally, these sorts of performances involve the actor/actress wearing tight black and white clothing with white facial makeup.
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.
Four years after becoming a teacher, in 1956, Bragg met the world-famous mime Marcel Marceau after seeing one of his shows in San Francisco. [6] Marceau took a liking to the aspiring actor, and offered to teach him mime in France. Bragg accepted the offer, and travelled to Paris at the end of the 1956 school year.
Pinto Colvig - American clown who later became famous as the voice of Goofy. Daniel Rice (1823–1901) – American clown of the 19th century and principal inspiration for Uncle Sam. David Shiner – Tony Award-winning American born mime and circus clown who has appeared on Broadway and with several European circuses
World Mime Day (French: Journée Mondiale du Mime) is a worldwide initiative of the World Mime Organisation to celebrate the Art of Mime and non-verbal communication on March 22, [1] the birth date of French mime artist Marcel Marceau. World Mime Day has been celebrated since 2011 in multiple countries, spanning four continents. [citation needed]
In December 2016, Brzozowski was awarded the “Special WMO Award for the outstanding contribution to the art of mime” [2] by the World Mime Organisation (WMO). In the decision by the WMO it was written: "In his youth professor Brosowski worked with famous Henryk Tomaszewski in Wroclaw Mime Theatre in Poland, where he was a soloist and he has ...
Jogesh Dutta (born 1935) is an Indian mime [1] who for over fifty years, ... He was awarded as a performing artiste at the 10th world fair held in G.D.R. in 1973. [5]