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On Being Alert

Animals are instinctive: they have an ability to stay still, they have an immediacy of response, and they are naturally graceful and harmonious with nature. Animals know how to heal themselves. When wounded or sick, they withdraw and stop eating,…

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Archetypal Movement

Theatrical activity is a necessity for a community. It is the responsibility of the artist or performer to keep that necessity alive. In storytelling, the mind of the audience must be kept right there, expectant, hanging on to every word….

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Geometrical Ecstasy

The perfect square has no corners. — Lao Tsu The mime is the geometrical human being in darkness. Without using her eyes she must know his line of movement and stay true to that line. She must also know the…

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Artistic Zero

Everything that happens at Le Centre du Silence is done to bring about radical changes in our ways of thinking. Many people think in words, but few think in movement and vision. Learn to think in images as well as…

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Communicating with the Body

Mime uses silence and the body as tools for communication. When you write a book you take some consonants, some vowels, some commas and other writing materials and put them together in a certain way, according to your understanding, so…