“What I’m doing now is pouring the cup into you,” Samuel said, as we sat down for the interview. “So, that you may pour it again with the symbols we call words.” A Morroccan-born mime, Samuel Avital has made Boulder his home…
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“What I’m doing now is pouring the cup into you,” Samuel said, as we sat down for the interview. “So, that you may pour it again with the symbols we call words.” A Morroccan-born mime, Samuel Avital has made Boulder his home…
(Transcribed from live session January 14, 1975 – 7:30 p.m.) In the beginning was the word.” Before the word, there was vibration, movement and Silence – The source of all life. Samuel Avital We have labels that signify us as…
“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…
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…
Samuel Ben-Or Avital was born in the small village of Sefrou, near Fez, in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
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