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The World of Mime Theatre's Encyclopedia of Mime is a growing compilation of reference material.

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BARRAULT, Jean-Louis (Wikipedia) - French actor, early collaborator of Etienne Decroux, known for his mime work on stage and in the film Les Enfants du Paradis

BIP - Famous character created and performed by French mime artist Marcel Marceau

COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE (Wikipedia) - Italian professional comedy of the 16th - 18th centuries. Influenced mime with its physical acting style, and its characters carried into later forms of pantomime in France and England.

COPEAU, Jacques (Wikipedia) - French theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist. His explorations at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris planted the seeds of modern mime.

CORPOREAL MIME (Wikipedia) - Modern form of mime created by Etienne Decroux of France, also known as Dramatic Corporeal Mime

COUNTERWEIGHT - Technique used to create the illusion that a mime performer is lifting, carrying, pulling, or pushing an object

DEBURAU, Jean-Gaspard (Wikipedia) - Famous mime of 19th-century Paris, known for his portrayal and transformation of the character Pierrot in the French pantomime

DECROUX, Etienne (Wikipedia) - Known as "the father of modern mime;" French creator of Mime Corporel Dramatique, also known as Corporeal Mime

FIALKA, Ladislav (Wikipedia) - Famous mime actor and director in the former Czechoslovakia. (English Wikipedia entry is very limited. See also this English auto-translation of the Czech Wikipedia page.)

ILLUSION - The stylized impression a mime performer creates, using one or a combination of techniques, that objects, characters, or elements are present on stage when they are not actually there

ISOLATION - Movement of individual parts or groups of parts of the body while other parts remain still

KEMP, Lindsay (Wikipedia) - Famous British dancer, actor, teacher, mime artist, and choreographer.

LECOQ, Jacques (Wikipedia) - Influential 20th-century French teacher known for his physical theatre method

MAKEUP or MAKE-UP - Theatrical cosmetics used by the mime performer to stylize the face and sometimes to either neutralize the face or to suggest a particular character

MARCEAU, Marcel - World's most famous mime, from France, whose career ran from 1947-2005. Known for his worldwide stage performances, as well as appearances on television and in film.

MIME ARTIST (Wikipedia - general article on the art of mime)

MIME CORPOREL DRAMATIQUE [see Corporeal Mime (Wikipedia)] - Modern form of mime created by Etienne Decroux of France

MIMODRAME - French term referring to the art of theatrical mime in general or more specifically to an ensemble mime performance

MUMMENSCHANZ (Wikipedia) - Famous Swiss mask-mime troupe founded 1972

PANTOMIME DE STYLE (see Style Pantomime) - Term used by Marcel Marceau to differentiate his other solo pantomime pieces from those featuring his character Bip

PHOTOGRAPHS - Available Internet photographs related to mime

PICTURES (see Photographs) - Available Internet photographs related to mime

PIERROT (Wikipedia) - Central character of 19th-century French pantomime, evolved from earlier versions of the character in the Italian Commedia dell'arte

SHIELDS AND YARNELL (Wikipedia) - Famous American mime duo formed in 1972, known for their television and stage work

STREET MIME - Mime performed outdoors in public places, in particlar as a form of busking

STYLE PANTOMIME - Term used by Marcel Marceau to differentiate his other solo pantomime pieces from those featuring his character Bip

TOMASZEWSKI, Henryk (Wikipedia) - 20th-century Polish mime theatre actor and director

WHITEFACE or WHITE FACE - Facial makeup on a white base, commonly associated with mime performance, but not always used


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