Sunday, April 13, 2008

Arts of the theater - who is masks?

The MIME is a class of arts of the theater where the executant represents the whole subject with the aid of the action and without the spelling of a single word. Such classes of executants are known like masks. The other sort of dances as breakage dance has many steps inspired of the MIME, the most famous being moonwalk of Michael Jackson. The clowns also undergo the training in MIME.

Like most of the arts of the theater, the reason behind the birth of this art is the Greek and Roman theaters. The history of the origin of the MIME can be dated from the theater of century III A.C of Dionysus in Athens. At that time the MIME was not totally without speech like mimes modern. Although there would be a certain delivery of the dialog, was minimum and there was the refrain, that is the key element of the theaters at that time. They knew the artist of the MIME like Phylakes at that time.

Histories were tragic at the outset with a moral lesson in the end. Some of the writers good met the MIME were Epicharmus, Decimus Laberius, Pubilius Syrus, Herodas and Sophron. After the fall of the Roman empire, the artists of the MIME were part of the executants of the court all to over Europe. They knew then Saltator or the Mimus and this one were how the MIME of the word was derived. Swallowers of the sword, the short agents of the drama, the acrobats and juglares also knew the Mimus well-known. On the basis of this it patented dumb papers were invented like the husband coward, the old forgetful man and many others. They more far grew like comedy non-silent in the Italian like the dumb demonstration, British theaters Pantomime art, of Italian Masque and Dell of commedia'.

In the modern times there are mainly two categories of MIME. The first type names pantomima in which the whole emphasis is in the body altogether along with face expressions, gestures and corporal language. There is hardly any place for the supports in this class of MIME. In place the objects imagine and an illusion is created for the hearing. Here the face expressions and the movement of the body are exaggerated.

The second type is corpĆ³reo MIME. It was developed due to the effort of people like Jacques Lecoq and Etienne Decroux. Here the body is used to express something that the words cannot even express. The emotions and the thoughts were expressed to make the visible hair net. This is done as soon as above not making the daily gestures but discovering range of human body to its fullness. The version also modernized includes the elements of other arts of the theater like dialogs, puppetry and the writing.

A MIME is presented/displayed always with a face guinea fowl with more concentration in the lips and the eyes, having emphasized them with red and black color, respectively. The white gloves are a necessity as it is used to increase the visibility of the movements of the hand. The suits consist of a black game with the white trimming, leagues and a black hat.

There are many other countries that have their own type of MIME following their culture. The best example is the Indian classic dance. Mukhabinaya or the expression of the face and the eyes was a part of the original Indian of Natya Shastra from the dance to the theater of Bharat Muni, that is an Indian version of the MIME. It includes an extensive vocabulary of the gestures of hand and the streamlined positions. The illusions are created by MIME that interprets an action, a landscape, and a life being. Sometimes the song and the music of the instruments or the movement of the lightning of the feet of the dancer support the operation of the MIME.

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