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Le Centre du Silence Newsletter 1991 – 1992To Produce, Connect, Create and Integrate the Essence of Life Energy The following articles were published in MovingEdge©! Newsletter during 1991 – 1992, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Le Centre du Silence….
“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…
Samuel Ben-Or Avital was born in the small village of Sefrou, near Fez, in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco.
LCDS is an independent school for self-discovery through the human Arts. The school offers seminars and workshops teaching the concepts of Theater, Mime, and Movement.