Movie-thon, Pt. I

Since our teacher is currently out conducting Practical Performance Proposals for the senior IB students, our class has been given the rare opportunity to simply watch videos for the next two days. Today we started off with The Art of Mime, as we are to perform on inspired by music next Tuesday. Well, the video was quite interesting as the host discussed various aspects of mime. There's definitely a lot more to mime than the common laymen would think. The host constantly spoke about movement and how it must be based from the center, the trunk of the body, the center of your appendages, and the center of your hands. He and his assistant performed a number of skits exemplifying the various aspects of a mime performance. In discussing the different types of mime, the host mentioned illusionist mime, I believe, which is probably what mime is best known as. With references to Marcel Marceau, illusionary mime creates the illusion as if objects are there, such as being stuck in a box. The information provided by the video was novel and interesting, but I'm not sure how much of it we, as students, can incorporate it into our performances. Besides the use of music in their skits, the skill in miming comes secondary in the task we have been assigned.