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Physical Theatre
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Mime Resources
Physical Theatre, where the worlds of Theatre and
Dance Meet!
"If
you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?" - Steven
Wright
QUICK LINKS:
The Acme Clown Company
Based in Providence, RI, the Acme Clown Company uses popular
theatrical
traditions to amaze, educate, and entertain audiences of all ages.
Their webpage also includes a generous collection of links.
American
Academy of Mime
Based in
Rancho Santa
Margarita, CA. Offers workshops and will travel to your
location.
American Mime Theatre
The American Mime Theatre is Company and a School in New York City,
founded in 1952 by the Director, Paul J. Curtis, who created the art
form
known as "American Mime." Classes are continuous and there
is a Company Trainee Program.
Artslynx Stage
Combat and Fight Direction Links
Association of Theatre
Movement Educators
Atropos
Atropos is a Greek physical theatre company whose activities are
divided in research, workshops and creation. Its points of reference
are the expressionism, the surrealism, the metaphysics and the meta
realism.
Axis Theatre
Company
Axis Theatre Company (formerly Axis Mime Theatre) is in its 21st
season of producing original physical theatre entertainment for young
people and family audiences in Canada and the US.
Blacklight
Theatre Image, Prague
Theatre based on the synthesis of black theatre (where objects appear
to float through space through careful application of lighting
technology and artistry), dance, modern jazz and pantomime.
Blue Man Group
Bodiscapes
Site based in Germany. While not a specific company, this site
provides a host of forums, resources, etc for those interested in
physical theatre
Butoh Resources from Artslynx
A collection of links and resources related to this specific
international blend of theatre and dance
Celebration
Barn Theatre
Founded in 1972 by mime Tony Montanaro in South Paris, Maine, the
Celebration Barn Theatre is both a school where such varied and
illustrious teachers as Leland Faulkner, Avner (the Eccentric)
Eisenberg, Fred Garbo, Michael Menes, Peter Davidson, Bari Rolf, David
Leong and many other teachers come to work with students in areas as
diverse as mime, mask, movement, fight co-ordination, juggling, voice,
acrobatics, clown and other aspects of theatrical performance.
Le Centre Du Silence
Boulder Colorado
Circus
Arts pages
Cirque du Soleil
Corporeal Arts
Incorporated (CAI)
A non-profit organization, based in New York City, dedicated to
the promotion of corporeal arts.
Dell'Arte
International School of Physical Theatre (and Company)
"Founded in 1975, the School is a full-time, professional training program specializing in Physical Theatre. A one-year Physical Theatre Performance program (PTP) offers actor training focused on the body -- the actor's primary instrument. Dell'Arte now
an accredited MFA program in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre. This two and a half-year program is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST). In addition to physical training, the program concentrates on the traditional popular theatre forms of Melodrama, Clowning and Commedia dell' Arte as well as Mask Performance. A 5-week Study Abroad: Bali program is offered every two years."
Dharma Road Productions, Inc.
"Dharma Road is a not-for-profit international & multi-ethnic alliance of dance, theatre, video, and puppetry artists based in New York City who came together in the aftermath of Sept. 11 to shepherd emerging & foreign-born artists into the NYC performing arts community and to light the way toward a deeper understanding of the common ground shared by spirituality and art.
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"They create pure dance as well as traditional theatre but more often than not they operate in the space between these two poles, using improvisation, collaboration, and juxtaposed images to give birth to original performance works for stage and screen that blur the lines between dance theatre and movement theatre."
Discovery Mime Theatre
Based in South Dakota, The
Discovery Mime Theatre, comprised of husband and wife team Mary Inman
and Brian Begley, tour with a repertory of over forty original pieces.
DV8 Physical Theatre
Lloyd Newson and his UK based company. Australian born
Lloyd Newson established DV8 PHYSICAL THEATRE in 1986 and with his
production of "Dead Dreams of Monochrome Men" (1989),
"Strange Fish" (1992) and "MSM" (1993) has
established himself as one of the most important and exciting
choreographers in Europe. Using a highly physical language, DV8
explodes the boundaries of contemporary dance.
Dynamo Theatre Company,
Canada
Ecole
de Mime Corporel Dramatique And Theatre de l'Ange Fou
A London-based
school and company. Of the company they say: "Theatre
de l'Ange Fou has created over 17 originals plays, devised pieces, as
well as adaptations, ranging from duets to ensemble work: "The
Little Dictator", "Beyond The Garden", "The Lost
Angel", "Entangled Lives", "The Inspector
General"... revealing different aspects of the spiritual and
political human quest, portraying the fraility and complexity of
relationships between individuals longing for love. Affections of the
mind , and the absurdity of life are a constant source of inspiration
for both the director and the actors in composing the plays. The
company undertakes a new project every year exploring the infinite
theatrical expression of the human body through a contemporary and
poetical dramaturgy, welcoming the use of music, texts and sets."
Escuela internacional de mimo corporal en barcelona - Internacional corporal mime school in Barcelona
"[the school] aims at organizing courses and theatre training focused on the "physical actor". In 2004, we created, in Barcelona, the Escuela internacional de mimo corporal dramatico (International school of corporal mime). It is the first time such a school exists in
Spain, a school dedicated to teach Etienne Decroux's corporal mime."
First Physical
Theatre Company
Based in South Africa, The
First Physical Theatre Company is a leading innovator in South African
physical theatre and contemporary dance. The web site contains an
overview of its work since inception, including performances and
tours, dance education, and research. Photographs of past theatre
work, and a shopping section also feature on the site.
Fora do sériO
This bi-lingual website profiles the work of this São Paulo - based
company. This group "researches the contemporary
gestuality through the study of: Voice and Movement integrated in the
physical action; Production and use of the Theatrical Mask; Commedia
Dell'Arte; Plastic-theatrical dialogue; and Musician-theatrical
dialogue.
Frank Theatre
"Frank Theatre develops its work in Brisbane, Queensland,
Australia and
regularly performs locally, nationally and internationally. Using the
actor
training method devised by Japan's foremost theatre director, Tadashi
Suzuki, a vigorous athletic system that emphasizes teamwork allied to
powerful voice and body skills, Frank Theatre has created a highly
original style of Australian theatre that is both intelligent and
compelling. "
Frantic Assembly
Frantic Assembly Physical theatre, exciting London-based contemporary
theatre for a new audience.
Geoff
Hoyle Clown and Comic
Actor, writer, comedian Geoff Hoyle came to the U.S. from England and
joined Larry Pisoni and Bill Irwin as a clown in the Pickle Family
Circus. He clowned with Montreal's Cirque du Soleil and his original
shows include "Theatre of Panic" at New York's Dance Theatre
Workshop, as well as award-winning solos such as "Boomer! "
and "Feast of Fools" which toured the U.S., Canada, and
Taiwan.
Goldmime
Gregg Goldston and C. Nicholas Johnson created The Goldston &
Johnson School for Mimes, an intensive summer training program for
both the beginning and advanced mime, actor and dancer. With the
support of the Ohio Arts Council, the School for Mimes relocated to
Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1981 and the Foundation
headquarters Columbus.
Hakoshima Mime Theatre
New Jersey based company, associated with The New Jersey Center for
Mime.
horla
Formed in early 1999 horla is a new London based
production company concentrating on telling stories through
performances with a physical edge and promoting new talent from design
to writing and music.
Iron Pig Theatre Company
Based in Philadelphia, "The mission of the Pig Iron Theatre Company is to create original performance works which test and break the boundaries of dance, drama, clown, puppetry, music, and text; to experiment with form while staying accessible; to develop a physical, theatrical performance technique that draws from many performance traditions; to re-imagine "classics" with both irreverence and a desire to make them relevant; and to reach out to new audiences by redefining theatre as an interdisciplinary art
form."
Juggling Information Service
Juggling Information Service, serves the Internet juggling community
by connecting all of the juggling related resources that we can find.
Kapoot
A three-man, nationally touring clown company, based out of Chicago
Kiko the
Mime
Colorado based mime artist. Kiko's website offers a number of
reference pages on the art of mime.
Lady
Cavaliers, The
"A New York City based action theatre
company that produces original
work celebrating the historical woman warrior and the modern action
heroine."
Liminal Performance Group
Based in Portland, Oregon, "Liminal is a nonprofit ensemble of artists collaborating within the context of live performance to discover new creative disciplines that are emerging at the threshold of traditional structures of theatre, the fine arts, and multimedia technologies."
Links
to Other Mime Pages
Magapar
Physical theatre based in Poland
Magnet Theatre
Based in Cape Town, South Africa Excerpts from thair aims as
listed on their website:
- To develop Jennie Reznek's unique physical performance
style
- To collaborate with other practitioners on larger scale
productions which would encompass a broader socio-political
vision
- To develop the language of physical theatre in South Africa
as a means to overcoming vast language diversities.
Manhunt
UK
Marcel
Marceau Foundation for the Advancement of the Art of Mime, Inc.
Based in New York City,
"The Marceau Foundation was established
in 1996 for the purposes of "promoting, fostering and encouraging
the art of mime and mime-drama in the United States and abroad and
preserving and perpetuating the work of Marcel Marceau."
Mime
Centrum, Berlin
"Mime Centre Berlin offers open
space for further learning and training, cooperation and inter
national exchange. The MCB concentrates on questioning the basis
of movement in theatre in general. This aim is connected with the
still existing German phenomenon of the opposition of theatre as being
text and dance as standing for movement. This point of view creates a
scope of work which opens up a greater dimension: from the question of
the basis of movement in "text" theatre up to the question
of theatricality of dance. So our work is about the physical and
psychical presence of an actor, about movement as the ground and
connection of different ways of theatre.
Michael
Moschen
The
Moving Theater Company
The Moving Theater Company is a new Boston based organization
dedicated to expanding the genre of Physical Theatre - image-based
theater in which the dramatic action is conveyed through movement of
the actors and their props as much as through dialog.
NaCl (North American
Cultural Laboratory)
Founded in Toronto, but now located in New York, this
company describes itself as: "an ensemble of dedicated theatre
artists who create and perform their own unique and uncommon theatre
performances. The company strives to investigate and practice live
performance as a means to invigorate and challenge our current North
American cultural climate, and to create situations for communication
and human interaction between fellow theatre artists and spectators
from all walks of life."
National Theatre of the Deaf
- "Hands tell Stories"
NYC Physical Theatre
This is a rather new master site dedicated to "Physical and
visual theatre artists in the New York City area. This site is by,
for, and about these artists."
The Pacific
Performance Project
Based in Seattle:
"Throughout the past twenty years, American
theatre has shifted towards movement-based production, drawing on
elements of dance, performance art, the new vaudeville, and other
related disciplines. In addition, formal styles of Japanese theatre
have had a marked influence on the training of actors in this country
and on the development of new productions, both avant-garde and
mainstream. The Pacific Performance Project (P3) was founded in 1994
by Robyn Hunt and J. Steven Pearson in response to the heightened need
for an expanding dialogue about culture and theatre. After
several years of study, Mr. Suzuki encouraged them to be among the
first to teach his techniques in the United States."
ParaTheatrical
ReSearch
Based in Berkeley, California, " 'ParaTheatrical ReSearch' is not a group of card-carrying members nor a
tribal identity or a business or an established theatre company. We are also
too rebellious to be a cult yet we do hold ourselves to specific work guidelines.
We're more like a rotating skeleton crew of committed individuals who come and
go according to our own timing and needs for working together and parting ways
until the next ritual lab, theatre or film project magnetizes its unique group animal.
Personal autonomy and individual integrity define our experience of group
unity."
Parallel Exit Physical
Comedy Theatre
"With backgrounds in dance, mime, circus, and acrobatics,
Parallel Exit creates wordless physical theatre in which characters,
emotions, and narrative are communicated entirely through the
performers' bodies. Inspired by the classic physical comedy of
Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, Parallel Exit's work has been
dubbed "an unparalleled achievement in kinesthetic comedy" –
Backstage. "
Plasticene
Based in the Chicago area..."Plasticene generates its work
through a unique process of theater-making that is artist and
rehearsal centered. Our structure is not bounded by traditional
dramatic standards of time, place, or character, but rather, by an
expressionistic and poetic matrix developed over eight years of
ensemble collaboration. By emphasizing the actors’ physical
presence, actions over language, and design as imagery, our
performances build a visceral, mysterious, and associative resonance
with the audience in performance."
The Pontine Movement Theatre
Based in New Hampshire - Pontine Movement Theatre has been a
ground-breaking force in the blossoming of actor-based theatre,
creating work that is engaging, innovative and original. Pontine's
work is founded on the concept that the actor should function as a
creative (rather than interpretive) artist, and that the name actor
dictates action (movement) as their primary tool.
Portable
Mime Theatre
In 1982 jugglers Michael Hirschbach and Christopher Majka (who had
previously appeared together as the Lunar Asparagus Theatre joined
with dancer/artist Kathy MacGillivray (from the Jeanne Robinson Dance
Project) and mime Sherry-Lee Hunter, a former member of the Deaf Gypsy
Mime Company to found Portable Mime Theatre.
Push Physical Theatre
Located in Rochester, New York, USA, "PUSH Physical Theatre
broadens the perspective of dance and theatre, making them more
relevant to people's lives. They use the term ‘physical theatre’
because they choose to move outside of their codified training to
discover new avenues of physical communication. PUSH was founded by
veteran movement artists and choreographers, Darren and Heather
Stevenson."
Rachel
Rosenthal
"Rachel Rosenthal, is an interdisciplinary performer who
has developed a revolutionary performance technique that integrates
text, movement, voice, choreography, improvisation, inventive
costuming, dramatic lighting and wildly imaginative sets into an
unforgettable theater experience. In the last twenty years she has
presented over 35 full-scale pieces nationally & internationally.
Critics have called her "a monument and a marvel " and Rosenthal has
been critically ranked with Robert Wilson, Ping Chong, Richard
Foreman, Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson by Richard Schechner,
editor of The Drama Review (TDR)."
Robert Rivest Mime Theater
& School
Based in Springfield, MA, "Robert Rivest has presented over 4,000 performances in 11 countries in Europe, Africa, and across the U.S.
A former student of Marcel Marceau, Robert has trained for over 10 years with internationally renowned masters of mime, dance, theater, and improvisation. Along with mime-theater training in Paris and NYC, Robert received his BA from Hampshire College."
San Francisco Mime Troupe
From their website: "The San Francisco Mime Troupe does not do
pantomime. We mean 'mime' in the ancient sense: to mimic. We are
satirists, seeking to make you laugh at the absurdities of
contemporary life and at the same time, see their causes. We’ve done
shows about most of the burning issues of our time, generally shows
that debunked the official story. We perform everywhere from public
parks to palaces of culture, aiming to reach the broadest possible
audience"
Arthur
Shafman International Ltd.
Shkidy
From Saint-Petersburg, Russia, Shkidy isa a "theatre combining
poetic poignancy of traditional clowning and visual beauty with
philosophical mime art, to make lyrical comic spectacle for all."
School
Of Physical Theatre - London
The School of Physical Theatre was founded by director Ron East.
Ron has performed across Canada, in the United States and Europe, has
written and produced sixteen original plays, and is a consultant for
film and television. Ron has just completed a book on his theatre
training process entitled "Moving Images: Experiential Learning
and the Physical Theatre". This is a 160 page book with
illustrations and photographs, the result of 25 years of professional
teaching experience, and pedagogical research carried out in Canada
and in Paris, France. Part 1: The Body Including the mechanics of
physical perception, discovering from the inside out, the architecture
of the skeleton, the play of the muscles in movement and stillness,
breathing, and the body's physical relationship to the theatrical
space. Part 4: The Physical Theatre Structuring discovery to enable
the artist to encounter the theatre as a medium, igniting the creative
fire in his or her belly, and putting the two together in the
theatrical space.
Seattle
Mime Theatre
The Seattle Mime Theatre Seattle's resident mime company, the
Seattle Mime Theatre was founded in 1977 by Richard Davidson,
Elizabeth Roth and Bruce Wylie. Their tours throughout the United
States and abroad include an acclamied run at the Edinburgh Theatre
Festival in Scotland and a series of performances in Japan as part of
a cultural exchange programme.
Shields
& Yarnell Mime Theatre
Sprung Theatre Company
Based in Chicago, "Sprung is an international movement theatre company formed by two graduates of L’Ecole Jacques Lecoq, training ground of Theatre de Complicite, Julie Taymor, Theatre du Soleil, and Steven Berkoff. sprung is dedicated to challenging the way audiences and performers view movement and performance through theatrical creations and workshops that are alive, mysterious, and vibrant. We hope to reveal and celebrate the specific moments in our lives in a way that is unexpected and accessible."
Stomp
T. Daniel Creations
Chicago-based touring mime and visual theatre company
working both with theatre/mime productions and working with
symphony orchestras
Tanzspiel - Karen Montanaro
Based in Maine
Theatre DEREVO
"Theatre DEREVO was established in 1988 by Anton Adassinski in
former Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. Since that time the company has
took many prizes and awards at the best stages and festivals of the
world, e.g. Edinburgh festival FRINGE or International mime-festival
in Perigeux. Present members of the group avoid the words theater,
actor, acting. Rather they regard their work as an awareness of a
person's
existence."
Theatrical Mime Theatre and
School
Based in Arizona, TMT "is dedicated to the development, documentation and performance of new works of international contemporary theatrical mime theatre created through collaborative creative processes. This development, documentation and performance of new works serves to preserve, educate to and expose all forms of international contemporary theatrical mime theatre and the techniques of its practitioners for the benefit of the general public and the practicing artists in the field."
TooBa
TooBa is a new Centre for Physical Theatre in Vancouver, BC. The
name TooBa, which refers to a life-giving tree found in heaven,
embodies the philosophy of the Centre and its training school. TooBa
is dedicated to breathing new life into the practice and study of live
theatre. The Centre is intended to be a locus for theatre artists,
teachers and students who want to expand the boundaries of theatrical
expression.TooBa offers a full-time two-year certificate program in
Physical Theatre, as well as part-time classes for all levels.
The
Tron Theatre
Based in Glasgow, Scotland
UMO Ensemble
Based in Vashon, WA, " Our mission is to stir the human spirit
and incite the imagination by providing awe, challenge and inspiration
through original and compelling theatre. We are a theatre of
connection-to our audience, to the ensemble, to our bodies, to the
imagination. Our work is image-rich and physical. We work with a broad
palette, combining character, movement, music, sculpture and story. We
seek the ancient alchemy of live performance, through which thoughts
and images under the surface of culture are given voice and
form."
World of Mime Theatre
Nice Master site of resources and links
Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre
- Brisbane, Australia
"Zen Zen Zo is a Brisbane-based physical theatre company that is
striving to recapture the ritualistic power of theatre by
combining a striking visual and physical
style with raw energy and emotional truth. Specialising in the
teaching and practice of The Suzuki Method of Actor Training,
Viewpoints, Butoh and Ashtanga Yoga,
Zen Zen Zo has gained a reputation for creating innovative,
confronting and often controversial theatre which both excites and
challenges its audiences. "
Webs of Individual Mime Artists
Other Research Resources
Evolution of Mime: Towards Expansiveness of Being
This site includes essays on the topic of mime and physical theatre
Mime
Journal. The
Mostly tables of contents for past issues and
contact info.
The World of Mime Theatre -
Excellent Master Site
Circus and Carnival
& Variety Related Resources
Circus and Carnival Master Sites
Juggling
Magic and Illusion
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websites include geographical clues: The links are alphabetized by state
and/or country. The column to the left includes additional categories of
resources and information.
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