1. Agenda Grab your drama llamas and a pencil and take your seats. 1. LOW 2. Notes 3. Practice

2. Miming the use of bodily movements without speech to communicate emotions and actions or to tell a story

3. Marcel Marceau French mime “art of silence” During WWII, he lived with the French Resistance, gave his 1 st performance to 3000 troops after the Paris liberation in August 1944 Emmy Award winner Friends with Michael Jackson

4. Basic Pantomime Movements Our daily communication is mostly nonverbal We use facial expressions, gestures, and body language constantly Actors want to rely on voices though while onstage; in pantomime, they need to rely on gestures and expressions

5. How Does One Pantomime? OBSERVATION

6. Main Objectives: 1. To be believable 2. To be understandable to your audience

7. Personalities vs. Actions STRONG-WILLEDSHY stands tall uses broad gestures moves with authority and self- assurance makes quick, defined movements directs actions away from the body stands timidly, drawn is as if for protection uses small, weak gestures moves slowly, with limited motion direction actions down and towards the body

8. Pantomimes Must… Stay Simple Tell a Story Use Exaggeration and Consistency

9. 1. Stay Simple Must be simple if the audience is to understand A well-executed pantomime is better than a complicated plot

10. 2. Tell A Story Initial Situation (beginning) Complications and problems arising from that situation (middle) A solution to those problems (end) Good pantomime stories have a clear beginning, middle, and end

11. 3. Use Exaggeration and Consistency Exaggeration To magnify Larger than life Consistency Stick to the same thing each time Return to the same situation

12. PRINCIPLES OF PANTOMIME

13. Shape 1. must be seen, definite 2. must be consistent 3. How to hold them – width, length

14. Weight 1. everything has weight, must show that 2. has tension in body, establish size with hands 3. box- empty 4. box – full of books

15. Resistance 1. Firmness of item 2. Creates tension 3. Squeezing basketball, pillow 4. Push a chair, table, car

16. Texture 1. everything has texture – rough/smooth, bumpy, sandy 2. must really feel it as you touch it 3. If you feel it, then your reaction will be there 4. cactus/velvet cushion

17. Placement 1. one of the most important in acting 2. must stay consistent 3. table, door- changes 4. use body – waist high, eye level, etc.

18. GOALS OF PANTOMIME

19. Goals of Pantomime 1. Make what you are doing clear to the audience. 2. Enable the audience to identify each object you use. 3. Strive for exactness and detail.

20. Class Exercise Line up as two teams facing each other for a rope pull. There will be a team A and B. I will call out when each teams pulls.

21. Individual Practice Objective: Individually, perform an action as a thirty-second story. Don’t just perform the action itself, but create a story. You must set up each activity. Sticks will choose order. You will come up to the desk to receive your activity. Hint: Don’t just swing a golf club for “playing golf”, but take the golf clubs out of the cart, set them on the ground, sort through them until you find the one you want, take it out, set up your tee, swing, watch, mark your score, and then clean up.