Word: mime
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first impression is of a broad and strong-backed man executing very soft movements. Paxton begins walking the diagonal of the space with a forearm gesture that suggests a mime pulling open a door or a classical Indian dancer coiling her palm in a hand posture. The opening movements have an Eastern sort of stillness. There are five or so discrete sequences in each half, with a small break in between each, while Paxton wipes his brow or walks to a new starting position. Several phrases build to a similar climax: turns slipping into themselves and then into the floor...
...Loeb production of Facade, the Sitwell poem is read through twice. In the first act, there is one reader accompanied by orchestra, while in the second, the actors mime to a recorded reading of the poem...
Sellars has had considerable experience as a puppeteer, but he forgets that people are not puppets. Unlike puppets, people get embarrassed, awkward and fidgety. Mime is a very difficult art which requires absolute control and subtlety. So when the actors are asked merely to improvise whatever they want on stage in approximate time to the poem, with little direction, they are often reduced to exaggerated gestures, uncomfortable muggings, and an aimless messy shuffling on stage...
...were thought to be even more scandalous than herself. According to director Peter Sellars '80, Facade, "An Entertainment," the sparkling musical parody which William Walton wrote for Sitwell's poetry has "no plot, no characters." Then why did Sellars decide to stage this extravagant new production of poetry, puppetry, mime and dance and why did the Loeb (whoever is actually running it these days) decide to let him. "It was just irresistible," Sellars says. At its first performance in 1923, Facade caused such a ruckus that the fire department was called in. It's not yet certain that this weekend...
...like Dylan Thomas who were even more scandalous than herself. According to director Peter Sellars '80 Facade," An Entertainment' the sparkling musical parodies which William Walton wrote for Sitwell' poetry has "no plot, no characters." Then why did Sellars decide to stage this extravagant new production of poetry puppetry, mime and dance and why did the Loeb (whoever is actually running it these days) decide to let him? "It was just irresistible," Sellars says. At its first performance in 1923, Facade causes such a ruckus that the fire department was called in. It's not yet certain that when...