Roger Vadim was a French screenwriter, film director and producer, as well as an author, artist and occasional actor. His best-known works are visually lavish films with erotic qualities, such as And God Created Woman (1956), Barbarella (1968), and Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971).
Marcel Marceau was a French actor and mime artist most famous for his stage persona as "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", and he performed professionally worldwide for over 60 years. As a youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in Paris.
Les Enfants du Paradis, released as Children of Paradise in North America, is a 1945 French epic romantic drama film directed by Marcel Carné. It was made during the German occupation of France during World War II. Set against the Parisian theatre scene of the 1820s and 1830s, it tells the story of a beautiful courtesan, Garance, and the four men who love her in their own ways: a mime artist, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat.
Physical theatre is a genre of theatrical performance that encompasses storytelling primarily through physical movement. Although several performance theatre disciplines are often described as "physical theatre," the genre's characteristic aspect is a reliance on the performers' physical motion rather than, or combined with, text to convey storytelling. Performers can communicate through various body gestures.
Jean-Louis Barrault was a French actor, director and mime artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau in Marcel Carné's film Les Enfants du Paradis and part of an international cast in The Longest Day (1962).
École internationale de théâtre Jacques Lecoq is a school of physical theatre situated on Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Denis in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. Founded in 1956 by Jacques Lecoq, the school offers a professional and intensive two-year course emphasizing the body, movement and space as entry point in theatrical performance and prepares its students to create collaboratively. The school’s graduate list includes renowned figures of stage such as Ariane Mnouchkine of Théâtre du Soleil and Simon McBurney of Théâtre de Complicité among others.
Étienne Decroux was a French actor who studied at Jacques Copeau's Ecole du Vieux-Colombier, where he saw the beginnings of what was to become his life's obsession–corporeal mime. During his long career as a film and theatre actor, he created many pieces, using the human body as the primary means of expression.
A mime or mime artist is a person who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art. Miming involves acting out a story through body motions, without the use of speech. In earlier times, in English, such a performer would typically be referred to as a mummer. Miming is distinguished from silent comedy, in which the artist is a character in a film or sketch without sound.
Thomas Leabhart is an American Corporeal Mime and Corporeal Mime teacher.
Henryk Tomaszewski aka Heinrich Karl Koenig (1919–2001) was a mime artist and theatre director, born in Poznań, Poland. He settled in Cracow in 1945 to study theatre after the end of World War II during which he studied at Iwo Gall's Theatre Studio from 1945 to 1947 and ballet under Feliks Parnell. Tomaszewski left Parnell's company in 1949 and resettled in Wrocław, where he taught ballet and began to develop his concepts in mime.
Samuel Ben-Or Avital is a professionally trained mime artist, teacher of mime, kinesthetic awareness, and Kabbalah. Born In Morocco, Avital later traveled to Paris where he studied with the French masters of mime, Etienne Decroux, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Marcel Marceau. Avital has performed in New York with the Pantomime Theater of New York, off-Broadway, and has toured North and South America. At the present Avital teaches Kabbalah in Colorado in the United States although he is best known as a mime.
The Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique is a theatre school in London, England. It was founded in Paris by the last assistants of Étienne Decroux, Steven Wasson, and Corinne Soum, who continue to teach and produce plays with their company, the Theatre de l'Ange Fou. Now known as the International School of Corporeal Mime.
Kevin Michael Collins is an American stage and screen actor.
The American Mime Theatre is a professional performing company and training school based in New York City. It was founded in 1952 by Paul J. Curtis. It is the oldest continuing professional mime company in the United States. The theatre ran under the direction of founder Paul J. Curtis for 60 years.
Ulrika Christina Elisabeth Nord, stage name Ika Nord is a Swedish actress and mime. In Sweden, she is best known for her work in children's television shows. Internationally, Nord is best known for her role in Let the Right One In.
Vahram Zaryan is a French performance artist, mime, dancer, director, and choreographer of Armenian descent.
Stanisław Brzozowski is a Polish mime artist.
