“In the age of noise we live in, it is sometimes wise to listen to what silence has to tell us.“ Avital It is no paradox that in a world full of noise, of commercial and inane advertising, the silence…
The Mime Actor must have in his head the material of a Novelist, and in his body the muscles of a Gymnast, and above all an ideal in his heart. Etienne Decroux (1) To fulfill and to realize these three…
1. Poetics: IV, 2. Quoted in Marcel Jousse, The Oral Style, trans. Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker (New York: Garland Publishing, 1990) 24. 2. Mime and Beyond, 103. 3. In this introduction, phenomenon is used in the philosophical sense of perceptual event or…
In its integrative role, mime belongs in the context of a twentieth-century undertaking that we might call “The Return to the Body.” The Western discovery of Eastern disciplines – yoga, Tai Chi, the martial arts – is a mark of…
According to psychologist Howard Gardner, (20) there are seven distinct types of intelligence: verbal, musical, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, and two types of personal intelligence – self-awareness and social skill. Gardner’s scheme has been influential because it recognizes types of intelligence in addition…
