How to Warm Up for Mime

Video Transcript

"my name is Jude Parry from Gold Coast Theatre Company in Miami Beach. Today I will be teaching you a little bit about the art of mime. When you warm up for the art of mime, you really have to warm up every single part of the body. I probably have time to teach you little exercises to do, but one very good exercise is to simply start with a stretch. Everybody knows how to yawn, so if you yawn and stretch up to the heavens and at the same time raise yourself on your toes. Keep stretching, lower yourself. Your heels are down on the ground, your knees are bending, but you're still stretching as if you're trying to reach the stars. Until your heels won't stay on the ground and you flop right over. You make a little circle, a figure of 8 around you feet. Then you drop your chin between your shoulders and you slowly raise up with your chin coming up last. Give your spine a nice stretch. You can do that as well as many other exercises with the hands, for the feet, for the whole body, for the face, and that's the way you have to warm up for the art of mime."