Word: mime
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slavery ("Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder"), modes of Christian religion ("Blood of the Lamb"), and the occasional horror of growing up in the streets ("Games."). All these themes could be powerfully interpreted in dance, but McKayle's choreography was weak. He seemed to rely on, rather than dominate, the attendant mime and singing. Instead of the dance patterns the viewer remembers the "Two little babies lyin' in bed; one plain sick, the other plain dead. Called the doctor, the doctor said: give them babies some shortnen' bread...
...young playwrights mixed magic and mediocrity in the Experimental Theatre last evening. Marie-France Lathrop's mime--Others, I Am Not The First--was magical. Senior Jonathan Sisson's Minsky O'Ryan and the Magic Bathrobe provided most of the mediocrity...
...mime consists of four interrelated scenes preceded by "phases," as Mlle. Lathrop describes them. Each phase is an interlude in which Michael Puorro, who is a baby as the mime opens, grows older. Puorro is especially convincing as he discovers his fingers and hands and learns to walk. His symbolic tug-of-war to hold onto life--pulling on an imaginary rope with Norris Eisenberg on the other end--is graceful and agonizing...
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A mime, Salvatore Guida, plays several parts in telling the story of St. Francis of Assisi...
Marcel Marceau is an exciting architect of empty space, an eloquent poet of silence. This matchless mime shares with the early Charlie Chaplin the knowledge that no matter how funny the pratfall, the heart is where the hurt...