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...Mangano feels that the major obstacle preventing mime from continuing to flourish as an art form is a popular negative stereotype. “People see street performers and think that is what we do, and it’s not,” she says...
...Mangano says people also confuse the art of mime with pantomime, which consists of smaller communicative gestures using only the face and hands. Mangano is in favor of possibly changing the term from “mime” to “gestural theater” or “physical theater” in order to escape popular clichés of what mime is, even though those terms are less accurate descriptions of what these performers do onstage...
...Mangano and Massip both believe that the future of mime is to be found in fusion with other arts, such as dance, singing, circus and speaking theater...
...Sometimes a story doesn’t need words, and sometimes it’s good to have them,” says Mangano. “If you need words, you should use them…speech and mime can exist at the same time...
...Mangano and Massip are already exploring these possibilities in their own, smaller company, which performs independently of Marceau’s company...