Saturday 26 September 2009

2.1 History of Mime



What is Mime?
Mime is an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression.

Popular Mime Artists
There are a few Famous Mime artists that are very popular one of them is Mr Bean, he is a famous mime artist as he has lots of films and books out about how his carrer in mime started, and what kind of work he does and his target audience. The second populare mime artist is marcel marceau. He was born in france and started his carrer from there. he was 84 years old when he died, and when he was alive, he was a big inspiration to allot of mime artists and even though he is dead now, people still look up to him. and he is still dfamous up to this date.

How mime started
mime started with cavemen, they used to use it to communicate with each other before spoken language came about. Then, when spoken language was discovered, they then used 'mime' as a form of entertainment. the ancient greeks and romans used to perform to audiences over 10,000 in festivals. there is a certain form of mime called 'hypothesis' and this would usually be done by a group or a company of actors and often ine actor would play the scenes of several characters.



Commedia Dell Arte

is a form of theatre that began in Italy in the mid-16th century, Commedia dell'arte was performed outdoors in temporary venues by professional actors who were costumed and masked, they would mime in the street with over exagerated faces to get attention from the audience that walk past, some people from the street may pay them as it is entertaining.

History of mime


Queen eleizabeth starte deffect mime as she hired mime artist to perform for her own entertainment and it started from there.



Social side of mime

social things effects mime beacause it gathers it gathers all different types of people together to watch various mime performances

Economic side of mime


As money has gone up so has the mime performances as you can afford lighting, stages, saeting areas for the public audiences, sound effects, stereos.


Technology side of mime
Technology has improved allot over the last 15 years as there is amps, TV, modern computers with internet and laptops, and this has helped people to underastand more about mime and made the money go up because more people have nbeen finding out more about mime because threw this technology.

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