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...humor is one kind of comment offered here, and the predominance of narrative dance is another. The problem is that almost all the movement is figurative, a vehicle of the story rather than the other way round. There are lengthy sequences of mime, and even the symbolism of some of the dance patterns comes close to the verbally explicit. You can't mistake the Fairy of Autumn when she sweeps her arms like a scythe...
...home he never stops talking, says Marcel Marceau's wife, but on the stage France's master of mime favors the silent treatment. Fresh from a three year, 53-city tour, Marceau, 55, has returned to Paris with some new acts. "It's harder and harder to innovate," he sighs. "My creations must always be more surprising." On Nov. 15 he will open a World Center for Mime on the Right Bank. The center, which already has 400 applicants, is largely underwritten by the city of Paris. "It's a dream that has been close...
...interest in nonverbal communication, Wylie said, was increased after he spent a year at a French mime school. "I learned a lot about the way people use their bodies; by observing them, you can tell their nationalities...
...College and the College of Marin, he and his companion decided to become performers. Although his indignant father advised him to study welding so he would at least have a marketable skill, Robin won an acting scholarship to the Juilliard School in New York, where he earned money performing mime in whiteface in front of the Metropolitan Museum. In 1976 he returned to San Francisco and met Valerie Velardi, a dancer whom he married last June. Valerie organized and catalogued his routines, and persuaded him to try his act in Los Angeles. With no portfolio, no resume, no connections, Robin...
...Angeles and a weekend house at Zuma Beach that they share with a parrot named Cora and two iguanas (one of which is named Truman Capote because, as Robin explains, "he's cold-blooded"). Robin's sketches, however, occasionally reflect the ironies of Celluloid City. One, called the "Hollywood Mime," for instance, has a character dancing from door to door in Hollywood, banging on each and smiling hopefully until the smile literally falls off his face and has to be pasted back on. Robin Williams should have no such tribulations: his is stuck tight with Krazy Glue...