A mime artist, or simply mime (from Greek μῖμος, mimos, "imitator, actor"), [1] is a person who uses mime (also called pantomime outside of Britain), the acting out of a story through body motions without the use of speech, as a theatrical medium or as a performance art.

Marcel Marceau (French: [maʁsɛl maʁso]; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, " Bip the Clown ". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for …

Mime has similar origins to both drama and the dance. When the storyteller was at a loss for words, gesture took over. Because of its character as an instinctive part of the makeup of a human being, mime must, of course, have existed in some form as long as recognizable men have walked the earth.

2024年10月6日 · In ancient Greece, mime was a popular form of entertainment dating as far back as the 5th century BCE. These Greek mimes were known as "ethologues" and often performed solo, using dance, acrobatics, exaggerated facial expressions, and stylized gestures to act out scenes from everyday life or mythology.

2016年7月12日 · "At eighty-seven years old, I am the world's oldest mime," Richmond Shepard says. A New York native, Shepard studied under the mime legend Etienne Decroux and alongside Marcel Marceau in...

2003年1月1日 · By the mid-twentieth century, Paris was the place for mimes to be. It was here that several great masters gave new life to the mime art, as well as merged it with other forms. Etienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau, and Jacques Lecoq developed schools of mime that no longer represented traditional, nineteenth-century pantomime.

2019年8月9日 · Mime – or the acting out of a story using gesture but no speech – definitely hit the big time in France but where did this peculiar performance style come from? Who were the Frenchman that made it their own? And what does mime look like today? Read on for the story behind an art form as French as fine wine…

In Medieval Europe, early forms of mime such as mummer plays and later dumbshows evolved. In early nineteenth century Paris, Jean-Gaspard Deburau solidified the many attributes that we have come to know in modern times—the silent figure in whiteface.

2005年9月7日 · The following work, originally published in London in 1901, is presented here in its entirety. The book, in its later chapters, increasingly discusses the history of what is now known commonly as English Pantomime, or Panto—a form of Mime that differs significantly from the modern forms that emphasize non-verbal expression.

The history of mime begins in the ancient world, at least in the 4th century BC when mime was used for worship and expression of belief and fear of ancient idols. The imitations made then by the ancients with its help were of various animals and forces of nature.