Word: marceau
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...true that, over the past few years, for those who do not speak our language, it has been the silent artists of French culture who have hit the headlines: the mime artist Marcel Marceau, Jacques Cousteau, our choreographers, our circus acts. They represent our quiet resistance to the hubbub of the world. But we would still like to impress you, modestly, in the French style; to make ourselves heard, shout a bit, throw a few tantrums. This isn't easy when, with your powerful American cultural industries, your worldwide machinery for projecting image, sound, software, desires, you have been...
...Marcel Marceau...
...comes after Chaplin?” says Massip. “Marceau. And who comes after Marceau? Nobody. We must look to the other arts for the future of mime and to students building on the past to create something...
...addition to fostering the development of new and innovative young mimes and other theatrical performers, Marceau also heads the Marcel Marceau Foundation for the Advancement of Mime. This foundation, supported by celebrities ranging from Placido Domingo to Dustin Hoffman, aims to accumulate and preserve an archive of mime performances, primarily those created or performed by Marceau himself...
...greatest threat to the future of mime remains the inevitable loss of Marceau. Energetic as he is, age is a force he can only deny onstage, and no performer has emerged as singularly talented to be deemed his successor...