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Mangano and Massip both believe that the future of mime is to be found in fusion with other arts, such as dance, singing, circus and speaking theater...
...Sometimes a story doesn’t need words, and sometimes it’s good to have them,” says Mangano. “If you need words, you should use them…speech and mime can exist at the same time...
Some graduates of Marceau’s school who are not chosen for his company perform in similar smaller mime companies. Additionally, many graduates of Marceau’s school find jobs in contemporary dance companies, which tend to have much in common with mime, especially newer dance companies in France...
...addition to fostering the development of new and innovative young mimes and other theatrical performers, Marceau also heads the Marcel Marceau Foundation for the Advancement of Mime. This foundation, supported by celebrities ranging from Placido Domingo to Dustin Hoffman, aims to accumulate and preserve an archive of mime performances, primarily those created or performed by Marceau himself...
...greatest threat to the future of mime remains the inevitable loss of Marceau. Energetic as he is, age is a force he can only deny onstage, and no performer has emerged as singularly talented to be deemed his successor...