In a workshop taught worldwide, these noted mime artists teach advanced concepts of mime technique developed by Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux. This program studies the following techniques in depth: hand designs to create the illusion of a hat, jewelry, sewing, painting, typewriting, oration, caressing, serpent, angel, commands; marches such as march on two points, feline march, tiger; the Theory of Axis (Decroux); Projections and Translations; and Pivots. Each technique is introduced and explained step-by-step and is shown clearly and slowly. A booklet outlines these concepts and explains their history and theory. An excellent resource for learning advanced mime technique.

This gratifying study of a phenomenon that has imprinted itself upon the folklore of big--city life, is a joyful book focusing upon the street performers in Washington Square Park in New York City.

While documenting the complex expressions of street performance in a specific outdoor environment over a period of four years, "Drawing a Circle in a Square" gives a broad examination to the relationship between outdoor performance and urban culture.

In this book we learn that most American cities prohibit street performance, charging such entertainers with vagrancy or soliciting, the performer--joyfully, cautiously, heroically--persists.

On sidewalks throughout the country, in theaters reduced to their barest essentials, the performer juggles, blows fire, performs magic, and tells jokes, appealing both to our sense of humor and to our longing for a moment of spontaneity in our city--structured lives.

"Drawing a Circle in a Square" is the first scholarly documentation and analysis of street performance. Based primarily upon original research, it makes a contribution that is as much toward a particular subject. Promoting the study of performance as an important and valuable vehicle for inter-disciplinary research and thought, it is a model of the kinds of research being developed in the emerging field of performance studies.

Book & DVD. These international mime artists, trained in Paris by Marcel Marceau, have taught mime workshops around the world. This video and workbook program presents a comprehensive series of mime exercises for student practice and review. Each technique is explained step-by-step in the illustrated book and shown clearly and slowly on the videotape. Some techniques include: Body Positioning, Communicating With the Body, and The Living Character. Also includes the techniques of creating an illusion, object identification, and gestural colouration and decolouration.

In this DVD, the third in the "Mastery of Mimodrame" series, we join Todd and Marilyn as they continue their Master Class in mime. Together with the students you can develop physical mime technique, building on the teaching from the previous videos, learn to communicate your ideas to an audience, and begin to apply these skills to a performance.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The approximate running time is 30 minutes. This internationally known mime artist explains and demonstrates the principles of three mime forms: Illusion Pantomime, Corporeal Mime, and Mime With Masks. Performing with another mime, Dr Gilbert demonstrates the action of opposing forces, positive and negative space, and how to transpose one reality into another. Using an illusion pantomime, "The Wall" he explains energy and resistance, points in space, and respect for shape and form.