19-10-2017, 09:35 AM
An artist of mime or mime is a person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, which involves imitating or representing a story through body movements, without the use of speech. In earlier times, in English, that interpreter was usually called a treat. Miming differs from silent comedy, in which the artist is a perfect character in a film or sketch.
The execution of the mime has its origin in Ancient Greece; the name is taken from a unique masked dancer called Pantomimus, although the performances were not necessarily silent. In medieval Europe, early forms of mime, such as the representations of mummer and later dumbshows, evolved. At the beginning of the 19th century in Paris, Jean-Gaspard Deburau solidified the many attributes that have become known in modern times: the silent figure on the white face.
Jacques Copeau, strongly influenced by the Commedia dell'arte and the Japanese theater Noh, used masks in the training of his actors. Étienne Decroux, a student of his, was very influenced by this and began to explore and develop the possibilities of the mime and developed corporal mime in a highly sculptural form, taking it out of the realms of naturalism. Jacques Lecoq contributed significantly to the development of mime and physical theater with his training methods.