Kinetic Connection
We were recently researching the woman who got Tony interested in mime in the first place, Professor Louise Gifford at Columbia University. A search under her name turned up this obscure press release from Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts which wouldn’t come up in searches through Montanaro as Tony’s last name is incorrectly spelled along with a goof on Marcel Marceau’s last name as “Marclau”!...
Montenaro & Marclau?
We were recently researching the woman who got Tony interested in mime in the first place, Professor Louise Gifford at Columbia University. A search under her name turned up this obscure press release from Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts which wouldn’t come up in searches through Montanaro as Tony’s last name is incorrectly spelled along with a goof on Marcel Marceau’s last name as “Marclau”!...
Seattle Mime Theatre
In 1977, Richard “Rick” Davidson, Elizabeth Roth, Bruce Wylie and Pat Tyler began the Seattle Mime Theatre. Roth and Davidson had studied with Tony Montanaro and Jacque Lecoq, and Wylie had trained with Leonard Pitt. The company performed throughout the United States and abroad for both adults and children....
#2 on Google!
Type into your browser, TONY MONTANARO MIME, and the first result is a Wikipedia page that describes the achievements of the mime master, teacher and author who is widely celebrated for his contributions to the art form of mime. After three videos, two of which are samples of Montanaro’s courses that can be found on juggler Michael Menes’ YouTube channel, the second site that appears in the search is the website MIMESPOKENHERE.COM....
Eclecticism in Mime Theater
Mime has been culturally eclectic since its inception, from Asia, to Africa, Europe, and the Americas mime was always culturally integrated, and not always isolated from the arts of singing, dancing, and storytelling as the form was purified in the twentieth century as being strictly silent. Mime has historically been the secret foundation of all stage arts, for without it, theater would be nothing but words and more words. When Shakespeare stated in Hamlet as he instructs the actors, “The action is suited to the word, the word to the action” he was referring to mime. The Japanese Noh Theater......
