Word: mimes
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...bather's short mime is a joy at a time When the overture's tortured by strings and winds. (The orchestra's bigger than most, but I figure Size does not excuse imprecision...
...disciples dance through deserted parks and alleys singing and enacting biblical parables in mime. The film develops neither theme nor character, but repeats the same boring stories about beggars and Samaritans. Continually the actors pantomime misers by contorting their faces and bend their bodies into weary beggars. The songs are as good as any chicken-rock. But someone might have told Steven Schwartz, the composer, that fast music isn't necessarily good music...
...Loeb is billing Psalms as "a celebration in song, dance and mime...an ingenious blend of historical drama and psychological insight." On the surface it is a story set in the decadent court of Saul, with eunuchs, concubines and vicious intrigues; and later in David's court--cleaner but just as doomed. On a deeper level it is a philosophical statement on the meaning of faith, a grappling with the question of foreknowledge in an ill-fated life. If one got a flash of one's future, how would this affect the choices eventually made? A complex and sophisticated juxtaposition...
Fechtor learned pure mime from Decroux, but he performs his own combination of mime and pantomime. "Pantomime is mostly concerned with plots, mime with situations," says Fechtor. "In pantomime, the hands and face are very important. In mime, the focus is on the chest. Decroux says, 'The chest is larger than the face, so why shouldn't it be more important...
Fechtor teaches three mime classes a week--one at the Loeb, one at North House, and one at Wellesley. He hopes mime won't become a popular fad, taught by people who don't really know anything about it. "I'm a purist in the idea if not in the way I perform," he says. He teaches an adulterated version of mime because "I don't think I've worked long enough on pure mime to be capable of teaching pure mime...