Word: mimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stage production must do more than merely present us with symbols. Director Emily Mann's idea to counteract the static nature of the play is to have dancers above and beside the stage mime some of the crucial events the characters are describing, particularly Sebastian's death. This kind of device is dangerous, but here it works, because the director has sense enough to use it sparingly, and never lets it get in the way of what's happening on stage...
Meetings open to the entire University will be held to work out the nature of specific areas of the proposed festival. Various possibilities include; dance, theatre (along with mime and opera), television and film, the static visual arts, all kinds of music, and anything else which attracts student interest...
...above. However, it did retain the spirit of that passage. Children, though they were not required to earn a fixed sum while in the Houses of Refuge, did have to demonstrate not only their acceptance of the laws and abstract principles of American society but also, if only by mime, their genuflection to the dictates of a Christian God and of capitalism...
...children: the movie "Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter." Instead of dissecting the stories of Beatrix Potter with words, choreographer Frederick Ashton and the Royal Ballet delve into them using the more eloquent medium of the dance. Five of Beatrix Potter's better known tales are recreated through mime and ballet, with the spirit and watercolor beauty of her books intact...
...over to programmatic dance sequences which Field (apparently in fear of comparisons with Jerome Robbins' original stagings) never fully utilizes. But, gee, Mr. Field, there are those of us who weren't even around to see the original so you do have give us something better than the listless mime that comprises the "Miss Turnstyle Ballet" and the tentative exercises that accompany "Lonely Town." As it now stands, On the Town needs to find a rhythm...