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This category is for resources pertaining to physical theatre.
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Physical theatre is a type of theatre where the physical movements are the main focus of the performance. Examples include miming and masking.
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Please submit only sites relating to English Pantomime. Sites pertaining to Mime should be placed in the appropriate subcategory of Physical_Theatre/Mime |
English Pantomime
| For the purpose of focus, the Mime category will deal with mime as an autonomous art form, distinct from other related arts. It will include sites relating to performers, education, history, publications, and other topics whose focus is exclusively or predominantly mime-based. Sites relating to performance where mime is heavily combined with other arts should be submitted to the Physical Theatre category. |
There is no universally accepted definition of mime. The art has evolved throughout its history, dating back to the origins of theatre itself, so any definition is partly dependent on historical context. Different styles of mime exist today, so definitions also vary from one "school" or practitioner to another. There are also several other performing arts that are, or have been, associated with mime at one time or another, which further confuses the issue.Considering these factors, then, this category will use the characteristics common to most definitions, but in practice will distinguish mime from both other arts that also fall under this definition—but are more specific in their own definitions, such as dance, clown, mask, etc.—and the larger groupings known as physical theatre or movement theatre that may include mime combined with other arts. As the terms mime and pantomime are so often used interchangeably, they will be treated as synonymous except in the case of English Pantomime, which will have a sub-category of its own.
The working definition of mime for this category will be: The dramatized representation of life, performed for an audience, in which the primary means of the actor's expression is physical, and where this physical expression takes significant prominence over verbal expression.
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