Ever since Aristotle first identified the five senses – sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell, we’ve been used to thinking that we have just these five. Because the senses can be located in clearly recognizable organs of the body –…
In these early years Le Centre Du Silence became Avital’s laboratory, where he could fully distill the teachings of the mime masters and develop his own unique methods. The work was improvisational and experimental, employing some prepared exercises along with anecdotes…
Mime has similar origins to both drama and the dance. When the storyteller was at a loss for words, gesture took over. Because of its character as an instinctive part of the makeup of a human being, mime must, of…
From Decroux, Avital acquired the grammar of movement. He learned to analyze minutely, the complex maneuvers of corporeal mime and then to reconstitute the analysis in movements of elegance and simplicity. Decroux’s approach was scientific, detail-oriented, and supremely focused, emphasizing…
Avital was born to a Sephardic family in the village of Sefrou near the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. He was the son of loving and hardworking parents and had a particularly close relationship with his grandfather, a respected spiritual leader…
