How to Create Your Own Environment in Mime

Video Transcript

"my name is Jude Parry from Gold Coast Theater Company in Miami Beach. Today I will be teaching you a little bit about the art of mime. Now the interesting thing about a mime is that we have obstacles when nobody else has obstacles. So you are showing your art, then you have to find your way around things. I like to choose trees or poles or doors of course or stairs. You have already seen me do the stairs. Window any number of obstacles because anytime a mime comes flat against these things, they can use their hands and arms to manipulate and create a whole illusion around them. Because in your imagination, I'm creating a whole space. It might be beautiful velvet curtains that are tied with a long golden tassel. It might be a plane steel wall. Whatever it is, it was in my imagination like I can make it look like an obstacle then I would create it. Your imagination and my art, we make the art of a mime."