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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.
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.
Levkovitch was born in Skierniewice, Poland (part of the Russian Empire at the time). He first performed cabaret in Paris as a mime artist , before making his way to the USA. In 1931, after changing his name to Eddie Vitch, he approached the Hollywood Brown Derby owner, Robert H. Cobb, and offered to draw caricatures of the famous patrons who ...
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. [2] Their ...
Partha started his career in the 1970s through singing and occasionally acting in some television and radio programs. His career got a break-through in 1979. [1] His solo performance at Shilpakala Academy impressed the then French Ambassador to Dhaka, Loic Moreau and the director of Alliance Française, Gerard Grousse, who offered him a scholarship in 1981 to obtain professional training on ...
The couple also toured widely with their two-person show, The Montanaro-Hurll Theatre of Mime and Dance. In 1995, the Montanaros wrote Mime Spoken Here: The Performer's Portable Workshop, a guide to the craft of mime, character work, and improvisation, and a pair of accompanying instructional videos.
Lindsay Keith Kemp (3 May 1938 [1] – 24 August 2018) [2] [3] [4] was a British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer. [5]He was probably best known for his 1974 flagship production of Flowers, a mime and music show based on Jean Genet's novel Our Lady of the Flowers, in which he played the lead role of 'Divine'.
Niranjan Goswami is an Indian mime artist and stage director, credited by many with pioneering the art form of mime in India. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is the founder of Indian Mime Theatre , a group promoting the art of Mukhabhinaya (silent acting).