MIME

PRINT SOURCES:

Alberts, David. Talking About Mime: An Illustrated Guide. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1994. 0-435-08641-3

Argelander, Ronald. “Scott Burton’s Behavior Tableaux (1970-72,” The Drama Review, Vol. 17, no. 3, 1973: 109-113.

Avital, Samuel. Mime and Beyond: The Silent Outcry. Studio City, CA: Players Press, Inc., 1985. 0-934252-10-6

Baker, George P. Dramatic Technique. New York: Da Capo Press, 1976.
Reprint of 1919 edition with added introduction by Harold Clurman. Contains discussion on silent action.

Bu, Peter, ed. Paroles sur les theatres du geste. Paris: Theatre du Geste, 1985.
Round table. Essays by several members of movement theatre and mime.

“Dance/Movement Issue,” The Drama Review, 24(December 1980).
Includes Veltrusky article, articles on Wigman, Enters, mime festivals.

Davis, Martha. Towards Understanding the Intrinsic in Body Movement. Salem, NH: Ayer Co. Publishers, 1975.
Body language touching on many fields, including drama, dance and mime.

Davis, R. G. “Method in Mime,” Tulane Drama Review, 6(June 1962).
Also in Players Magazine, Oct-Nov. 1972.

Eastman, Gilbert C. From Mime to Sign. Terrance J., 1989. ISBN 0932666345

Engle, Donald G. “Lang’s Discourse on Stage Movement,” Educational Theatre Journal, 22(May 1970).
The directing and teaching of Franz Lang (1654-1725).

Enters, Angna. “The Dance and Pantomime: Mimesis and Image,” in The Dance Has Many Faces, Walter Sorrell, ed. New York: Columbia University Press, 1966.

________. On Mime. Middleton, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1965.
Log of 20 sessions teaching actors; description of her work.

Feder, Happy Jack. Mime Time: 45 Complete Routines for Everyone. Colorado Springs, CO: Meriwether Publishing, n. d. 0-916260-73-9

Fleshman, Bob, ed. Theatrical Movement: A Bibliographical Anthology. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1986.
Articles on movement training, body language, mime, notation.

Goldovsky, Boris. Bringing Opera to Life. New York: Appleton, Century, Crofts, 1968.
Brief discussions on motivating movements for opera singers; chapter on operatic pantomimes detailing pantomimic sequences.

Kipnis, Claude. The Mime Book. Colorado Spring, CO: Meriwether Publishing, 1974. 0-916260-55-0
Step-by-step introduction to illusion mime.

Lawson, Joan. Mime: Theory and Practice of Expressive Gestures. Brooklyn: Dance Horizons, 1973.
Dictionary from the classical ballet.

Lecoq, Jacques. Le Theatre du geste, mimes et acteurs. Paris: Bordas, 1987.
Articles by Lecoq and many others on gestural theatre.

________. “Mime, Movement, Theatre,” Yale/Theatre, IV(Winter 1973).
Lecoq’s approach to training the body for the stage.

Loeschke, Maravene Sheppard. All About Mime. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982. 0-13-022855-9

Lust, Annette. “On the Meaning of Mime ad Pantomime,” in Theatrical Movement: A Bibliographical Anthology, Bob Fleshman, ed. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1986.

MacMullan, Frank. “Pantomime in the Training of a Director,” Players Magazine, 39(January 1963).

Mandel, Dorothy. Uncommon Eloquence. Denver: Arden Press, 1986.
Biography of Angna Enters; after her performing years she taught movement for actors. Also see Ginnine Cocuzza’s dissertation from NYU.

Mehl, Dieter. The Elizabethan Dumb Show. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966.
Pantomime and intermezzi in Elizabethan plays.

Niedzialkowski, Stefan. Beyond the Word: The World of Mime. MI: Momentum Books Ltd., 1993. ISBN 1879094231
Discussion of breath, energy, isolations, impulse and slow motion.

Pardoe, T. Earl. Pantomimes for Stage and Study. New York: Appleton, 1931.

Pepler, Hilary C. C. Mimes, Sacred and Profane. London: Samuel French, 1932.

Perugini, Mark. Mime. London: The Dancing Times, 1957.
Pantomime in the dance.

Pickersgill, Mary G. “Stage Movement and Mime,” Theatre and Stage, Vol. 2. London: Pitman, 1951.

Rice, Elmer. Three Plays Without Words. New York: Samuel French, 1925 and 1934.
One can take out the adjectives and adverbs for some more extensive exploration of silence.

Rockwood, Jerome. The Craftsmen of Dionysus. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1966.

Rolfe, Bari. “The Actor’s World of Silence,” Quarterly Journal of Speech. LV(March 1972): 394-400.

________. Mime Directory/Bibliography: International Mimes and Pantomimists. 1978.
Includes books, articles, films: indexed.

________. “The Mime of Jacques Lecoq,” The Drama Review, 16(March 1972): 34-38.

________. Mimes on Miming: Writings on the Art of Mime. Los Angeles: Panjandrum Books, 1980.
Anthology on mime; includes essays relevant to actors, dancers, cinema.

Rose, Mark V. The Actor and His Double: Mime and Movements for the Theatre of Cruelty. Chicago: Actor Training Research Institute Press, 1986.
Pulls together Artaud’s concepts of gesture and movement and discusses techniques for creating them.

Rudlin, John. Jacques Copeau. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Includes description of his school’s movement training.

Sayre, Gwenda. Creating Mime. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1959.

Shepard, Richmond. Mime: The Technique of Silence. New York: Drama Book Specialists, 1971.
A set of lessons based on corporeal mime style.

Soifer, Margaret K. With Puppets, Mimes and Shadows. New York: Furrow Press, 1936.

Stolzenberg, Mark. Exploring Mime. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1979. 0- 80669-7738-8

Walker, Kathrine Sorley. Eyes on Mime. New York: John Day, 1969.
Mime in the ballet.

AUDIO/VIDEO SOURCES:

Montanaro, Tony. Mime Spoken Here. Vols. 1 & 2.
Videotapes of mime exercises available by writing Box 1054, Portland, ME 04104