Word: mime
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...Mime fans will enjoy the Studebaker Movement Theatre Company (May 17), while those with a real love for the unusual can catch Native American dance and chanting this Friday...
...music relaxes to a jazzy trumpet solo, two dancers stretch and connect their limbs on the floor. It is an exercise in absolute body control. Soon a flirtations woman appears pursued by two suitors. A mime progresses, parodying his coquettish affair. But at all times the dance if self remains of primary emphasis: ne's attention is drawn first to the breathtaking technique, then to the drama...
...Duncan's are symbolically restricted to role-playing and fantasy fulfillment, and his subjects snatched exclusively from the performing arts and inserted into a bare studio. Some of the stars are content to glide on their images: Makarova as a buck 'n' wing ballerina, Marcel Marceau as the eternal mime, and Joan Rivers in one of those flouncy $2,0000 haute couture gowns that on her becomes transformed into WalMart weekend specials...
...Ubieta is a fine mime, but pinned to the podium she has great difficulty establishing any dramatic relationship with Burke, and she exhausts every conceivably interesting movement in her small space pretty quickly. Ending up as more of a shadow than an independent character, her talents could certainly be put to greater...
...joke was not on him. When he first heard the news, Comedian-Mime Bill Irwin, 34, thought they were trying to kid a kidder. But in truth he had become the first active performing artist to receive a MacArthur Foundation fellowship. The so-called genius award means that Irwin, who charmed audiences with his 1982 The Regard of Flight clown show, will get $180,000 over the next five years. Awards last week also went to 24 others, including a Georgia country doctor, Curtis Names Sr., 64, and the founder of the World Institute on Disability, Edward Roberts...