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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/Visual Sources

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

last updated 25 September, 2008