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Despite the powerful influence of Chaplin and other great silent film stars, Marceau says he originally aspired to become a speaking actor. When Decroux recognized Marceau’s talent for mime in 1946, his plans changed...
Marceau says his largest influence is Charlie Chaplin, because unlike Marceau’s master teacher Etienne Decroux, Chaplin demonstrated the ability to show humor within tragedy. Marceau believes that this sense of “tragicomedy” truly reflects the essence of human life. In the first act of his show at the ART, Marceau proves the effectiveness of such a paradox when Marceau’s alter ego, Bip, laments his inability to adequately perform as a lion tamer...
Although music is used in the performance, the company rehearsed almost entirely in silence, receiving the music composed for the show about two days before their first performance. Massip says that, like his teacher Decroux, he personally sings to himself in his head to keep the rhythm and timing of his movements but that the company members generally pay more attention to each other than to their musical accompaniment...
...summer after his junior year, Fechtor studied under mime artist Jewel Walker at the Carnegie-Mellon School of Drama. Last spring he spent a trimester studying in France with Etienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau's teacher. The 76-year-old Decroux was a strict instructor "For the entire first month I was there he didn't speak to me," says Fechtor. "He just sort of eyed me critically. The second month he began to criticize my work." Like Fechtor, who hopes to go into creative writing or philosophy, Decroux has a strong interest in language--he used to be an orator...
Fechtor learned pure mime from Decroux, but he performs his own combination of mime and pantomime. "Pantomime is mostly concerned with plots, mime with situations," says Fechtor. "In pantomime, the hands and face are very important. In mime, the focus is on the chest. Decroux says, 'The chest is larger than the face, so why shouldn't it be more important...
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