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College An original mime show. Directed by Kevin Grumbach and Elizabeth Pennell. Last weekend at the Loeb...
...MIME IS AN art that can speak powerfully without making a sound. It takes drama a step further believably portraying not only emotions, but solid objects, where none really exist. Mime demands more attention and participation from the audience than straight drama, because each movement is significant to an understanding of the message. With silence as a tool to attract the observer, the mimist uses precise body movements and facial expressions to draw the observer into a realm in which illusion is reality, and reality is displayed all the more clearly. This past weekend at the Loeb Ex, a talented...
What's beneath the surface of human behavior is the theme of Collage: A Mime Show, being performed in two weekends at the Ex. In that undefined area between acting and dance, seven pieces by co-directors Kevin Grumback '78 and Elizabeth Pennel '79, each with a twist at the end, aim at presenting the audience with statements about how we view the human situation. In Jungle, the first piece, the apes come out from behind the bars, but it's the audience that ends up feeling caged; in Carnival the amusements turn the tables on those who are being...
...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...
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...