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<span style="font-size: large;">We send you all our best wishes for the year ahead. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Hoping you have a year filled with great peace of mind, </span><span style="font-size: large;">countless creative breakthroughs and most of all...</span><span style="font-size: large;">that your year is filled with love and happiness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We have been away from posting Blog Articles for over a year now. </span><span style="font-size: large;">During this time I created a new full-length solo performance: "WEEPING IN SILENCE" </span><span style="font-size: large;">which premiered at the International Mime Art Festival in Warsaw in June of 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">f</span><span style="font-size: large;">or the Mime Art Festival in June 2016 titled: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the meantime, Haruka and I will be occasionally posting some new Blog Articles, which will include excerpts from my </span><span style="font-size: large;">Mime Video Training Series,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> now in development.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you are a performing artist of any kind, you may have wondered how to create strong connection of energy between you and your audience. We generally call this </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Stage Projection" which in our art form, encompasses coiling body parts, combined with throwing our</span></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">thoughts in several </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">directions</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> out into the theater. We </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">even learn to use our eye muscles to control a type of psychological emotion between us and them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Stage Projection is the precise study to make ourselves be as close to our audience as </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">emotionally and </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">visually possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">In other words, it is the performer's ongoing intention to be breaking the fourth wall, i.e., proscenium, and make his/her audience feel included and subjective in the scene. Note that we don't mean breaking the fourth wall in a Vaudeville, or Groucho Marx way, meaning as if we "step out of character." We mean that we choose to create a subliminal effect where they feel that they are on-stage with us, as opposed to sitting an watching us as if we are far away inside of a bubble in a world of our own on the other side of the proscenium. Furthermore, we are not saying that those choices are wrong, or invalid. We are only using those as examples to help you better understand this article and technique we are describing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We believe that this style of </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">performance communication</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> originated from Marcel Marceau and was then further expanded upon by Goldston over the past 30-plus years. Gregg often speaks of how his audience will tell him: "his performance makes them feel so close to them that it feels as if he is sitting in their lap." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />As we study coiling, we push multiple body parts to different directions in order to keep our body fully alive - creating energy flows that reach our audience. (Here it is important to tell you that Gregg first heard of this concept from Moni yakim, when he was working with Decroux during the 1950s - 1960's era.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you would like to check if your energy is actually coming across the proscenium and reaching your audience, it is best to ask your audience if it is visible to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For me, it has been exhausting to study pushing body parts to create the energy flows out into the house. I did not feel efficient energy continuously beaming out from my body. I heard Gregg's voice "Push more!" and I was trying so hard gripping my muscles and twisting as many parts as possible, but honestly, I felt something not so natural about how I created the flows. (In fact, I later learned that: "gripping my muscles too hard and twisting too many parts actually <i>stops</i> this effect from happening!")</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Very recently, I accidentally learned that one additional image can instantly </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">facilitate and multiply this effect. So I would love to share this story with you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Probably for the last several years, I have been using an image of "liquid air" filling the theater in order to create necessary resistance for the moving quality this art form requires, meaning being Off- the-Clock. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In my own imagination, I was always carrying a stage full of quiet water around me. This was the reason I could not instantly create this energy projection. I was gripping and holding during the moment of a push, instead of pushing further through the gesture I was delivering. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I then realized that if I actually push "still water" in a bath tub, my body used too little effort. Pushing against "bath tub water" was too simple and then I saw I was not really pushing! This study led me see that the same was happening to me on stage. I needed a much greater muscular force in my work on stage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Consequently, I looked for a stronger visual image. I thought of the Ocean Waves. As soon as I focused on the image of waves coming toward me, as if I were in the ocean in Hawaii, my body spontaneously created the energy flows that felt so great and natural to me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The flows were in irregular directions and speeds because of what my DNA remembered about the characteristics of the ocean. I felt that my body shape turned into a human in motion. My jaw dropped and I was screaming inside in one of my big epiphanies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I just wanted to share this simple story with you all. About a little image, which helped me immensely and gave me hope to get better tomorrow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The beauty of this image is found in the words I just wrote and I want to repeat them again, because these words best describe what we are all trying to arrive at while we are on stage: </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">"</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The flows were in irregular directions and speeds."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We often say in class using a different description, but we are describing the same thing: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When I showed this article to Gregg before publishing it, he reminded me of an epiphany he had a few years ago about his Umbrella play <i>Pas De Deux. </i></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">He said the following: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>"What captivates people about this play may not have to do with helium and a floating umbrella at all. It is more likely the fact I recreate the same physics of waves breaking onto the sand and the rip-tides that pull the water back out to the sea. </i></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>I become the ocean and my audience gets to sit on the beach and enjoy. </i></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>As my teacher Marceau might say</i>:</span><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;"> </i><i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">You must "become" the Sea."</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gregg recently demonstrated in class how to create an optical illusion of gradually approaching the audience. He explained that it is possible to create the same effect we often see in film, called the “helicopter shot” where the camera is flying in from the distance and begins with a large area shot, and then slowly zooms in to the main character in the scene. He said he uses this technique in his plays so subtly that we often don’t even see it unless he points it out and demonstrates it in slow motion. He then showed us the “optical distance” illusion using the “Walk in Place, and showed us how he altered that illusion to create this film-like technique. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This technique works beautifully in the beginning of a new scene, where you would like your audience to enjoy spending just enough time to observe the environment surrounding the character. In essence, this technique gives the audience a sensation of travelling and smoothly approaching the character. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">An important note here is to mention that when we create an indoor scene, we use the “flashlight” technique spoken about in our previous article linked here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">and when creating an outdoor scene, we use this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We can also use this distance effect when play a multi-character play, to show the people at different distances from each other or within the same environment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today I try to focus on a scene where the character is standing in place instead of moving. (Moving from one point to another on stage. - across the stage space)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Please bear with me while I struggle to find proper words and concepts on this subject for I am in the midst of learning and analyzing this delicate technique. Gregg also enjoys finding ways to explain advanced techniques that have not been analytically taught in the past. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He calls this fascinating technique "The Satellite Dish." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A satellite dish moves around to receive the maximum amount of signals all the time in accordance with the planet's alignment in the space. And, although we usually only think of this dish as a “receiver” it is also a transmitter. This is what we want you to look at in this article, how we “transmit” ourselves into and around the seats of the theater where our audience is watching us from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We, as performers, adjust our body - especially our torso and face – in order to project our thoughts towards our audience. As you see in the images below, the shape of a well projected body also resembles the shape of a satellite dish, making a gentle curve around the center. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Another significant purpose of this technique is to create an optical illusion of a flying camera subtly woven into our scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The priority and balance of multiple techniques are crucial to its success in performance. (Yes, always multiple techniques!) There are various ways to use this technique conceptually when creating a play. Today, I will concentrate on describing one example of the route of the flying camera, its physical creation on stage, and the optical effects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Before we start the physical creation by the performer, let's imagine the route of the flying camera we are creating from inside out. This is the actual scene without the physical technique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A helicopter with the film camera, capturing you from the sky diagonally above, around where you are looking at. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The camera descends slowly, making a big counterclockwise spiral down around you, passing the height of your face diagonally, then go a little lower than your chest. Now the camera is on the left side of you, still fifty yards (20 meters) away from you in distance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Then, the helicopter makes a G-Force curve and then starts approaching slowly towards your face, gradually ascending to your height and getting up close. Then, the camera smoothly stops - which is the arrival of "The Satellite Dish" and the beginning of the upcoming scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Right leg forward, make a forth position facing diagonal left forward. Both knees bent. Put weight balance on your left leg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Pelvis incline to forward as if you are bowing from the pelvis. The angle of your pelvis indicate the relative position of the ground - the spinning earth the character is standing on - to where the audience is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While you elongate your torso to the maximum, subtly incline and rotate your waist to right, then subtly incline your chest to right and forward making a gentle curve in around your long torso. You aim your chest at your front row audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Then adjust your neck and head accordingly to make "The Cookie" sympathetic thoughts with your inclined (over to right) face at your "Universal Audience". Elongate your neck so that your head looks like peeking out of your window, farther front and right from where your pelvis is located.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This gently curving/twisting torso and head will later make an unnoticeable slow undulation in Phase 2. The earth spins to the left and rear, then your torso follows after it. The more “mime resistance” used during this, the stronger the effect is for the audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Try to make every rotation and inclination very subtle and delicately shaped so that you can adjust accordingly to find your final position with the impressions listed below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">1) Your pelvis - your base - is set at diagonal left (rotation) and forward (inclination). </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">2) Your elongated torso, neck and chin making a three dimensional curving/twisting tall building to the direction of your audience. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">3) Your chest is making a very delicately curved (satellite) dish and the dish is inviting / embracing your audience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">4) Then your face with cheeks and eyes are peeking out of your building (torso)'s window. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">5) Adjust your body parts accordingly to make an effortless looking whole body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Feel the delicate and resilient connection between the satellite dish, i.e., your head and torso, and your satellite base, i.e., your pelvis and below. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, your audience sees your upper body closer, inclined toward them, than your lower body, which looks farther away and half gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Because of the angle of your torso you created, they feel the sensation of looking down on you like the New York City picture below. This logic also applies when a tall person sees a short person. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Slowly and gradually rotate your pelvis and above to right as one unit using your resilient and smoothly sliding feet with legs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As you do, gradually lessen the forward inclination of your pelvis and make your torso more and more vertical.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While you do this gentle turning of your whole body and reestablishing your pelvis, gently and unnoticeably undulate your curved/twisted torso, neck and head to a kind of neutral state and align with your pelvis, only keeping your elongated waist and chest delicately curving in. Gently finish this phase 2 in a position where your torso is past vertical and now inclined to the rear left from the pelvis, subtly adjust the projection of your thoughts using an acting moment and gradually aim your thoughts at to the Universal Audience. You feel as if you are looking down on the camera. This is the end of Phase 2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Your audience sees you from below like a short person looking up to you, from a little off center - left side of you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">An imaginary hula hoop may help you understand the first half of this mechanism. Keep your upper body, i.e., your pelvis and above, as a unit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">From that angle, now you undulate your subtly curved torso from your waist and above. Within this second undulation, your torso becomes gradually vertical and opened outwards. Lastly you shift your weight balance to your front leg and approach your audience with whole body like a tsunami wave. This is the end of Phase 3.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The changing of the view of your torso angle from your audience contributes a great deal of how they feel of their relative location to you. It may give them thrills or even motion sickness depending on how you change the speed and it's angles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In order to help them feel agreeable and thrilled instead of sick, extremely gentle and careful angles, gradual speeding, and arrival of what we know as "G force" seem to be the key to its artistic success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When "The Satellite Dish" is successfully executed, the audience feels great anticipation of your upcoming drama. Usually, they don't even notice that you have physically created this illusion, as it often feels like their own mesmerizing imagination, as I always believed so.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You as the performer will also feel as if you too, have arrived closer to them during this illusion, as if you ended it by sitting in the audience's lap. (Psychologically, of course.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One additional note for you about "The Satellite Dish" is that this is a “Time Transformation” and that these rules apply:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When the camera is far away, your thoughts should look far away and distilled. There should be less thoughts, being held longer than normal. Then, as your character arrives to the final stage of this “camera zoom” your thoughts transform and become more vivid and “close-up” establishing that you are literally in the place, the environment where the play will take place.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">"Now, that's The Marceau!" is one of those sayings my students hear me say often. Someone will create a pose that reaches far beyond the studio we are working in, and that's what we see;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Marceau's </span><span style="font-size: large;">unique combination of counterpoints, contra-direction rotations and pulling one part of an arm one direction while pushing the wrist another.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Like a science, you know it's a truth when you see it, even if you don't understand why.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">When Etienne Decroux was first inventing mime, the newspapers wrote: "Decroux has created: </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">The Art of Counter-Weight." </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I knew that was true when it came to creating an illusion, because to show something heavy, your body had to make another part "compensate" for the weight. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">However, I later learned...that "</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Mime" is always: </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Counter - "</span><i style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Something!</i><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">" </span></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Counter-Weight. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Counter-Direction. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Counter-Thought. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Counter-Clock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">This is what makes this art so unique and so unlike anything else.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"> it comes to how we stand and move in space we are always using a coiling system based upon unique science of counter-direction. (Contra-Point) Look closely at how Marceau is using this system of "Counter-Direction" pulls and pushes, <i>and</i> rotations combined with he risking of balance points.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Don't Miss the Most Important effect that he is creating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Look at the "<i>stage space"</i> around him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Look at each photo I've posted for a few minutes...Look at how he is filling the stage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All the air around him is bright, and he looks as large as the stage he is standing on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(I took them from the back of the balcony in 2003.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."</i></b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To reach our own creative potentials, we would do well to live by his example. Intuition and music mix very well. It is not a crazy idea for us to become Einstein on stage and follow our intuitive voice sent directly from our right brain.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We actually do most of the work while “off-stage,” throughout the day,
not just while rehearsing.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">All of our
students can tell you their personal stories of how this method affected their
work, so trust it and try it.</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Soon
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1. On your iPod or any MP3 player, create a playlist of various songs
that are not familiar to your ear, preferably the ones that keep changing the
rhythms and intensity of the notes. Look for different qualities of
instrumental sounds and voices. Please refer to my previous post for how
to select your songs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you would like to receive a list of songs we provide
our students with, please send us your request via email at gmi.mime@gmail.com.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I said from your headphones not from your external speakers system. Because we tested </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">it and the effect from the speaker was less than a half of what you get from your headphones directly. Headphones are closer to your brain, and it also eliminates all the auditory distractions from the world. You will probably notice that when your sounds are coming from the headphones, the visual images around you start blending into your music more subjectively than that from a speaker. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">3. Then go wherever you would like to. Your studio, the park, in the street, in the subway train, your kitchen, the laundry room, a tennis court, you name it. Now, whimsically sing various activities and thoughts as visual music. Forget about objective eyes on you, how you look, who you are, or even your serious purpose of doing this. Headphones help on this as well. Try to be as animated as you can.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Combine these activities and thoughts with various instrumental sounds and voices coming from your headphones.<u><span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></u></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Think "Yes" as the thickness of a bass sound.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Think "No, no..." as a soft voice.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Remember to keep the visual music always alive by changing the rhythms and reflecting the quality of sounds you hear from your headphones. Those will gradually be stored deep in your DNA and someday will come out naturally without playing it from your headphones or speakers. If you catch yourself having too much fun, that is the point and you are on the right track!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Last week I received a great amount of feedback and many complements on my diagrams of how you see the Coiling, (Suspension) by drawing lines over photos of Marceau and myself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Marceau then explained that his own style did not begin this large, but that it developed over time. He said that as he became more famous, he was put into larger and larger theaters. His illusions, as well as his actual "posture" had to become large and more powerful to reach the back rows of theaters that were 2,000 to 3,500 seats.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most revealing is to look at how he stands when Not Performing. Look below at the same photo and see how I diagram the "throw points." (Throw-Point = how far his body reaches out into the theater.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Then he said the most important part of this image:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">All parts, all directions, all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Look closely at all of the red lines I've drawn to help you see this effect. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You will see, for example with an arm, </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">that the upper-arm rotates one direction, the forearm the opposite, and the wrist-hand opposite again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">...and consequently, they become "longer than normal" and become: "larger than life."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Finally, this is a technique which enables a person to look larger than life. It enables a performer to throw thoughts all the way to the back of a theater. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most importantly, know that it is not based on a style of mime, and this can be applied to Decroux work, Ballet, even ice skating.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"...hey man, you're a Marceau copy." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Because I've hidden these techniques within my shapes just as Marceau did.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Wow, you're so large, I could feel you all the way in the back row."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Last week, we looked at the most essential element of our art form called "Off the Clock", the elastic speed of movement a mime sets up onstage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Yes, it is much easier to learn this technique if you are here in the studio with us, but we believe it is important for us to write about this and publish it for those people who might not be able to find related information in their own community, or be able to attend our workshops or summer intensive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For this reason, today I will provide you with many visual examples and images that will help you better understand the concept of performing in "Real Time: compared to performing "Off the Clock." Once you can visualize the difference, it will be easier to apply the techniques we are writing about to your own plays and transform your show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Off the Clock" makes the art of mime magical. Period. Often the public will use the word “Mesmerizing” and that effect comes from the off the clock sense they experience while watching a mime performance. This "texture of time" physically induces the endorphins in the brain for both the audience and performer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The following statement is what my friend wrote about her impression after seeing her first mime performance. She is definitely talking about the effect of "Off the Clock". More importantly, note how she is not even describing her impression of the story, but the effect of the “art” itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>"After only a few seconds, I was drawn into the world and felt like floating in a dream. For some reason I was imagining some very old animation films like "Tom and Jerry". It looked as if the world of expression was projected into the air like a film and at the same time there were many afterimages remaining around. It was beautiful, nostalgic and mysterious. It should have a lot in common with dance, but it felt very different because <b>each tiny movement seemed to expand into a drama.</b> Very impressive."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">First, we listed images that would give a variety of speed qualities. I hope that visualizing these images in motion with an imaginary magnifying glass will help you identify and extract the qualities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most importantly, please understand that "Off the Clock" does not mean staying at one constant speed. It is not a constant slow motion or constant fast motion. It is an “ever changing” speed and rhythm. This is why we keep speaking of “elastic” as the mime will constantly be changing time as if it is like an elastic band.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Furthermore, we are not saying you can never move on the clock. We are saying that after 4 to 5 seconds of real time, you must change your rhythm to another speed, or you will be in real time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Once a teacher said, if we move in a steady or constant speed, we become like a heartbeat. The audience then is reminded of how soothing their Mother’s heartbeat was when they were a child in their Mother’s arms…then they fall asleep!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Regarding this, we often hear Gregg say something like, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Same (equally spaced) four beats are okay, but not six of them. Break it BEFORE it sounds flat." Before you flat-line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here are a few images of being Off the Clock with a variety of speeds:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Two space ships "docking" together in orbit.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">A spider lowering itself as it makes a web.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Fog drifting in a slow breeze.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Hands sculpting clay.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Honey dripping off of a spoon.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You see? These images in motion are the ones created by physics, and they are never in one constant speed. Honey really isn't in a simple slow motion. It keeps changing speed, i.e., accelerating as it drips down. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Next, let's imagine, you are in the airport, sitting in the airplane looking out the windows. Your plane is moving smoothly on the runway, speeding up and is about to take off. You are remembering your friend’s smiles, hugs and last good-byes. You slowly look back from the windows, knowing that your physical body is set in motion and now being taken away by the speed of the accelerating plane. Your thought is floating behind your body staying in the past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Generally speaking, "Off the Clock" combines two simultaneous rhythms happening on stage. You separate your thought from your body. Then you sustain your thought much longer/slower while your body is moving in a faster motion. Later, your thought will be compressed and will catch up with the body like a stretched elastic band would. In other words, both body movements and thoughts are "Off the Clock".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This elasticity of thoughts and body motion are racing back and forth in a playful and dreamy way creating this non-real sense of time for the audience. This effect is the primary ingredient of this art form that separates Mime from all other arts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The motion of your "physical part" can be a life's event or your own activity on stage. Usually, separating actions (events) from reactions (thoughts) is the first transition people experience in their mime training. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Off the Clock" seems foreign and difficult to most people in the beginning. However, it begins to feel so great as your body learns step by step the texture of it. As I wrote earlier, this skill physically and pictorially triggers your endorphin smile. In class, we look for that smile in our students' faces to see when they actually feel this sensation. It’s also described as the moment your left brain connects to your right brain and the air around you feels like you are in a dream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That is what made me cry when I found Gregg Goldston thirteen years ago in New York City. I immediately felt the distilled air in the studio. That was completely different from the air I felt in dance, drama, singing, rhythmic gymnastics, or any other art form I was training before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Picture your body moving in the speed of dripping honey. While the speed of your body motion is accelerating like the honey's physics, project a few thoughts in a different rhythm, like a drifting butterfly or a bouncing ball. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Don't you get excited like we do? I get chilled to bone while my imagination touches those words! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This will transform your story into a deep experience for your audience. The rhythm created by your "time speeds of your body and thoughts" become the deliciousness of this art and the "air changer" of the space, which a mime masters in performance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here is when the famous saying becomes more clear: <b><i>It’s not what you say, but how you say it.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Next week we will write more about which physical elements and specific techniques are used to acquire and expand upon this most important and beautiful base of Mime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Written by Haruka Moriyama, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The schedule of The GMI Spring Workshops in NYC will soon be available on our website. The curriculum will include the "OFF THE CLOCK" and its physical, practical and philosophical step by step guidance. It will be a vary rare opportunity for you to learn many hidden and essential techniques we cannot type out here in our articles. Unlike our GMI Summer Intensive in July, we accept all levels for these workshops. You will also get to see a lot of fun in New York City, the biggest city in the world!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I hope you had beautiful and uplifting holidays. I had my first week off from this blog writing since last summer, and had truly relaxing, aromatic, and delicious week! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today, I will write about the most essential topic in Mime called: "Off the Clock". This term refers to the speed a Mime moves during a performance. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Etienne Decroux once said, "If you are moving in real time, you aren't doing mime." </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Consequently, this subject will encompass many elements I have previously written about including Musicianship, Compression of Time, Expanding Thought, and Throwing Thoughts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I will describe how the speed of "Mime Time" differs from "Real Time" and how the public is rarely aware of this fact. Furthermore, how a Mime performer sets up an on-stage speed that "seems real" but isn't at all and this is why this subject is often the most overlooked part of our art form. (At the end of this article I have listed several mime plays where this is easy to see this effect in action.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>What is "Off the Clock"? – Elastic and Irregular Time Speeds</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When a Mime is moving in "Real Time", we call it "Clocking." It is a critical term that we do not like to hear someone say about our performance or have to say to one of our students. However, there are several ways to change a "Clocking" phrase into an "Off the Clock" phrase and in today’s article I will focus on these methods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">First of all:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Contrary to how reliably the hands on a clock move, a great mime performance consists of only elastically expanded moments i.e., slower than real time, and squarely compressed moments, i.e., faster than real time. A mime performance should be as far from a "metronome" as possible. (A Metronome is the object that musicians use to stay on time, on the beat.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Effect of being "Off the Clock"</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As a result, only the moments (of thoughts and activities) that are chosen to be expanded will naturally grab attention of the audience. In other words, "Off the Clock" gives the audience a perfect guide for where to focus and on which information to follow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The more your "Off the Clock" speed is unreliably distorted, the more expressive and dreamlike your performance quality will get. Often we say that when you are off the clock the quality of the air changes in the theater. And more importantly, this enables the performer's projected thoughts to become "Off the Clock".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>"Coiling" to Enhance "Off the Clock"</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here is a great way to enhance the quality of "Off the Clock" rhythm, and make the texture of "Mime Time" mesmerizing. I have been watching Gregg and learning this technique more enthusiastically than any other techniques.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In short, the more coiled your body parts are, the better control you gain for the richer rhythm of "Off the Clock". To understand what I mean here by "coiling", try to imagine that your “whole body” functions as the left hand of a violinist. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Coiling is a complex body tension control. Imagine your whole body is a string instrument like a guitar or violin, and you have many strings lining on your whole body in many directions. Those strings are naturally loose. In order to tighten your strings, you lengthen various parts of your body to make the strings tight. While you lengthen them, you can rotate and incline some parts to make your body three dimensional and even more tense. The body part gets tense and elongated while coiling, and gets numb and slightly shrunk while uncoiling and searching for the next directions to go coiling. Training of proper "Coiling" needs an experienced trainer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For more step by step introductory technical guidance for "Coiling", please read my previous article:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gregg once explained to me that his style is primarily based on the Marceau Grammar, but heavily influenced by the style of Stefan Niedzialkowski. He explained that during the time he was studying the style and suspension of Marceau, he was also studying with Niedzialkowski (since 1982.) He spoke of how Stefan's style of coiling uses more rotations, and contraction-expansions. Over time these styles merged and became a unique blend of Marceau, Decroux and Niedzialkowski. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Irregular Breath-like rhythm of "coiling" and "uncoiling" naturally generate layers of elastic resistance throughout your body. And the resistance itself physically slows down our thoughts and movements, i.e., enables you to exploit strong thoughts (of "High Points") without freezing. That is a very effective way to control and enhance the quality of "Off the Clock" rhythm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gregg stated that the best way to "see" Off the Clock, or how the Air seems Transformed or Distilled in a photograph is to look for how the body is in "motion" but the "thought" seems to be paused, or in a slower time than the body.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Marcel Marceau<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gregg Goldston</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gregg Goldston</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gregg Goldston</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gregg Goldston</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>"Bending the Note" - Throwing yourself into an unsteady balance point which creates "Passive" physics.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It was an eye-popping discovery for me when Gregg taught me how much he had been rolling and sliding his feet for the purpose of losing his balance point in order to create an outer layer of resistance. Around when he started showing me this technique, he started saying to me "Bend the Note, Haruka!", "Don't be careful!" , "Break the rules!" ...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is a kind of self-created invisible outsider's force. And with that force, you intentionally make the rhythm somewhat sloppy. It is a sensation of "uncontrollable", "passive", and "playful" physics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The term "Bending the Note" came from the guitarist Jeff Beck, our teacher of "the Musicianship", who breaks the rules in order to do his job "properly."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Adding the "Bending the Note" (occasional sloppiness or looseness you create by pushing your balance point beyond a steady zone) on top of the "Off the Clock" rhythm control by proper coiling and uncoiling. (We will again define these terms from different aspects in our following articles.) That is the coolest combination of techniques I always find in Gregg's performance style. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Please note that "Bending the Note" is a technique, which works well when you are "Off the Clock" and properly coiled. Again, "Coiling" is a body tension control, and it is equivalent to making the guitar strings properly tightened so the guitarist can "Bend the Note" to show how to break the rules every so often as "ornamental" effects, instead of a base of the texture. This sloppiness (or looseness) is created by so much force. Yes, a tactile one, like Jeff' Beck's fingers. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gosh, I love this art, because it is so profound and whole and ever challenging like this particular one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>“I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.” Jeff Beck</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Below are a few photos that Gregg chose to show some extreme Note Bending.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gregg Goldston</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gregg Goldston</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gregg Goldston</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Although there are different styles of movement and choreography within the art of mime globally speaking, all schools of mime utilize the Off the Clock concept as well as some form of Coiling. (Suspension as Mr. Marceau called it.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Analyzing this in photos and videos of a broad variety of artists will help you to see it, and understand how to achieve it physically. For this reason, we are including a variety of photographs and YouTube links to start you in this research. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">NOTE: Please know that the "only" reason we use so many photos of videos of Goldston and Marceau is that we have a large library of these and have the legal rights to do so. We are not doing it to push Goldston as some prime example of it all or that propose that Marceau is the top mime and so forth. We encourage you to research the work of Etienne Decroux and his students and the broad range of mime artist from Poland that came from Henryk Tomaszewski.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Stefan Niedzialkowski based in Warsaw, Poland.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.mimearttheatre.pl/en_stefan%20niedzialkowski.htm" target="_blank">http://www.mimearttheatre.pl/en_stefan%20niedzialkowski.htm</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Steven Wasson and Corinne Soum International School of Corporal Mime based in London, who also now run a summer project in the USA.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.angefou.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.angefou.co.uk/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Alexander Neander & Wolfram Bodecker of “VISUAL THEATER” – Berlin, Germany</span><br />
<a href="http://www.visual-theater.com/en/home/" target="_blank">http://www.visual-theater.com/en/home/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Bartłomiej Ostapczuk, Warsaw Mime Center and International Mime Art Festival</span><br />
<a href="http://www.mimecenter.eu/" target="_blank">http://www.mimecenter.eu/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">C. Nicholas Johnson, Alithea Mime Theatre – Kansas, USA</span><br />
<a href="http://www.alitheacreations.com/" target="_blank">http://www.alitheacreations.com/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Other Mime associates and contacts can be found at: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here are links to a few videos that may help you to see and understand the "Off the Clock" concept in action. There are so many more we could post, but for now, here are these, and know we will post more links with our future articles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Mask Maker - Collage (Marceau)</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LOe65NVjzk" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LOe65NVjzk</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Small Cafe (Marceau)</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKOwuMWBfNQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKOwuMWBfNQ</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Hey, What the? (Goldston)</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36fRhtJdWQ4&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PL5AD5A1FF306E5AD2" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36fRhtJdWQ4&feature=c4-overviewvl&list=PL5AD5A1FF306E5AD2</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Chair (Goldston & Ostapczuk)</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TNOWUKJJ_o&list=PL5AD5A1FF306E5AD2" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TNOWUKJJ_o&list=PL5AD5A1FF306E5AD2</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Butterfly Meditation (Moriyama)</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCP8m73BPr0&feature=c4-overview&list=UUyQWYJWZS5JHKYjVZx3pqrw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watchv=bCP8m73BPr0&feature=c4overview&list=UUyQWYJWZS5JHKYjVZx3pqrw</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A Concert in Pantomime (Bodecker Neander)</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DskloPiPsFs&list=RDGWbtGAF_gXc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DskloPiPsFs&list=RDGWbtGAF_gXc</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Both Gregg and I will continue writing about this topic over the next few weeks, as we know that if you can truly capture this essence, it will change your work forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Until next Sunday!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Written by Haruka Moriyama, </span><br />
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Left to Right: Victoria Labalme, Marcel Marceau, Haruka Moriyama, Gregg Goldston, Max Nourissat, Alexander Neander<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>"After I die, you'll tell people that "the mime" as a performer is the violin of all the instruments in a symphony orchestra."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is what Gregg told me in a small bar near Cap 21 Studios, where he used to teach mime and physical comedy from 2001 to 2004. We often spent after-class hours there, hearing his stories about the art of mime and its philosophy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">(Yes, Gregg is alive and actually very healthy. But I decided to share this story much earlier than he asked.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Feeling the depth and significance of the word "violin" in his voice and gaze, I had no clue what he meant by "violin".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As I wrote previously, rich musicality called "The Musicianship" in mime performance develops overtime while we train our muscles by cubically defining and coiling body parts and also train our DNA by listening to different types of music constantly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If we hear the general term "rhythm" or "musicality", the word can mislead us to an intellectual image of it like that on a sheet music. However, as I kept working with Gregg, I started to catch a glimpse of a whole new world he called "Musicianship", which was not at all intellectual, but was much more tactile and forceful, where a lot of breath was used, where the rhythm became thicker and three dimensional, more vividly colorful and subjective as if the sound was generated within the musician's organs and exploded as it was projected towards the audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This was beyond what I used to understand as "rhythm" on a sheet music. That is why, I think, Gregg started to call it "The Musicianship", instead of "musicality". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Last summer, I almost accidentally happended to perform one of my plays with Stephan Grappelli's short violin tune called "Misty". All of a sudden what Gregg meant by "The mime is the violin" made sense to me. I think it could happen to me then for two reasons. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One was that I needed to improvise a lot and shorten my play to less than half the length of my original play while I was on stage. That condition forced me to listen to the music more carefully than usual. And secondly, that was the first violin tune I used for my play, and in the wings I was actually thinking back the very quote I heard in the bar a decade ago. "The mime is the violin... What could that mean to me now..."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What I learned from Grappelli on stage that day became one of my important milestones. For I needed to deeply focus on the music, my visible thoughts naturally reflected the intensity of his violin sounds, and my acting got more layers of rhythms which I never had before!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As you know, a violin has a bow to rub against the strings back and forth. That edgy but delicate contact of the bow and strings creates the unique intensity of the vivid violin sounds. The way violin notes sustain is very different from other instruments. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In order to sustain a violin note, the player must keep creating the new "current" sounds which is the "current" contact of the instrument. In other words, the violin sounds is less round, more square, vivid and raw, like the way our visible inner thoughts want to be seen by the audience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But "reverb" in, for example, piano notes is not really a "current" sound, but an extension and reflection of a "past" sound, so it is not as keen or intense as a sustained violin sound. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The characteristics of the violin sounds can most dexterously and intensely sculpt and resemble our delicate but amplified "visible" human thoughts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>"After I die, you'll tell people that "the mime" as a performer is the (visual) violin of all the instruments in a symphony orchestra.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Firstly, that our technical level is not only most comparable to the skill required to be a solo violinist. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>And secondly and the most important to share is this: If we compared how we use our body, how we project our thoughts, suspend and coil, and how we stretch time...</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>Is most comparable to a violin.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We wish you magical holidays filled with joy, laughter and art of mime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This year has been filled with joy, inspirations and laughter for us. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Thank you all for your support and heartwarming smiles you brought to us both in and out of class.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>"A phrase is a sentence, when it comes to the acting. </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>- Gregg Goldston</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>“When it comes to our acting, we deliver a phrase like a Sentence. When it comes to an Activity or an Illusion, we deliver a phrase like a Song.”</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today we will share The Goldston Mime Grammar Page 3 - "The Phrasing Categories & Examples of Mime Phrasing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">First, here is the background story on how this all developed:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In 2006, Gregg was brought in to teach at the American Ballet Theater Summer Intensive in order to help the dancers improve their acting. While preparing for this work he studied countless productions from companies around the world. Although ABT didn’t ask him to teach or address “Ballet Mime” he discovered that the difference between Ballet Mime and Modern Mime was that Ballet used a 3-beat system and Mime used a 4-beat system. This is why when watching Ballet Mime, the audience never feels the conclusion of a sentence, conversation, or scene. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Seeing that this was what Mime could offer Ballet, Gregg spent over two-years developing a complete grammar structure that ranged from a soloist day dreaming, to a full company scene from Romeo & Juliet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">***It was from this period of research that led Gregg to what we now call: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“See-Wish-Doubt-Believe.” The Four-Beat Sentence Structure.***</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As he developed this Grammar, he studied “all” the situations in which a non-verbal communication phrase happened within a story ballet. Learning this, Gregg then categorized them according to type of “scene”, they would appear in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Those phrases are categorizes as below:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Attitude Phrase</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Activity Phrase</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Monologue Phrase</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Dialogue Phrase</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Announcement Phrase</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Without that enormous effort and dedication Gregg had for creating a modernized grammar of ballet mime, this modern system of non-verbal grammar that we are sharing today, would not be exist. It is true that this system was in use by Gregg, and it originated by examining how Marcel Marceau made his thought process so clearly visible. However, it was only after codifying Ballet Mime, that he realized he had also codified Mime Acting to a higher level.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This was certainly the best part of all this work, and since then Gregg and I have been continuing to codify a broad grammar of mime and assemble it into a teachable foundation of techniques for mime artists worldwide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, let's imagine how we can put this grammar to use by looking at a few mime scenes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Example 1: You see a girl you like very much, but you are too shy to speak to her. How do you physically show that (Attitude Phrase) on stage?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do you have at least four sequential beats (physical gestures) to say "I could never speak to her" and complete your sentence? If you just make one pose of shyness, that is not a phrase to be understood. And if you have only three gestures instead of four, that cannot give a conclusion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Example 2: You tie a necktie in your scene. Does that activity have its beginning, middle and end in different rhythms as if you are singing a musical phrase internally and visually? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Tying a necktie ends with the tightening quick move of your hands with your whole body and face reflecting it. The rhythm and your acting together must complete like the end of a musical phrase. And usually, the end of a phrase has a pronounced longer moment ("The Hold Point") to be photographed nicely (by an imaginary camera of your "Universal Audience".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At first glance these seem like simple and arbitrary thoughts to show, and/or illusionary activities to practice. However, Gregg assembled a variety of topics that will put you in many “emotional” scenes causing you to have to utilize the four-beat structure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Note that this page works directly with The Mime Acting page we released on November 10, 2013. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We suggest you and a colleague try to act out each of these scenes using the 4-beat acting moments. By exploring the variety of combinations with another person, you will both be able to see the power of “Thought over Action.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here are a few examples I would start with:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Curious, only (Attitude Phrase) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Curious (Attitude Phrase) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">plus Opening a Present (Activity Phrase)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sorrow, My love has left me. only (Attitude Phrase)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sorrow, My love has left me. (Attitude Phrase) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">plus Getting Dressed (Activity Phrase)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Spontaneity is always required in the training of phrasing all five categories above. But remember, it is supposed to be fun for you like a casual jam session. I have to remind myself about this and dance around when I get too serious about phrasing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Yes, it should be fun and it IS fun!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Comedy is anything taken to its most exaggerated limit." </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A variety of performing artists from stage and film attend our “Physical Comedy through Mime” class. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Most of these people first tell us “they are not funny” and they cannot do comedy. However, I assure you that Physical Comedy can be learned because it’s an art in itself. It isn't part of mime, or dance or theater; it has its own set of laws and conventions that are simplistic and learnable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The principals in today’s article will enable you to begin to add infinite possibilities of visual humor to your scene, in any kind of performing arts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Physical Comedy & The Mystery of Talent</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today I write for people who are new to physical comedy. I personally had a hard time learning it especially for the first few years of my training. It was always frightening for me to perform comedy in front of people, not having a clue of why sometimes it was easy and not always. The more I felt timid and afraid of making mistakes, the more tragic my comedy became. I started to think that comedy required some kind of talent you’re born with and I believed that I did not have any of it. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It seemed true that some people who grew up making others laugh often acquire sense of physical comedy faster than others do, but I now see that the key is a relaxation while executing the comedy phrase. Because if you are nervous or disbelieving your ability to be comedic, you cannot hear the most important element of comedy, "the comical rhythm".</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyone can learn Physical Comedy step by step, because comedy “Is About Steps.” It is a “sequential” delivery of thoughts, and actions not a simultaneous one. It is about the quality and rhythm of your "projected thoughts". You play a musical instrument silently with your eyes, face, and body in square rhythm to convey your thoughts to the audience.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Comedy is Painful:</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Making a scene comedic requires a strong focus on your acting within the scene. Most great comedians create a persona that we “feel sorry for,” an empathetic character. One key way to create this is to put your character in situations that make them the victim of the situation. The audience always laughs at “pain” so put yourself in danger of pain, either physically or psychologically.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Even in a scene of "being in love", you become a victim of love</span><span style="font-size: large;">, and that is why your character becomes universally laughable, thus, worth loving on stage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>It’s your “Thought Process” that makes you funny, not your story. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>It’s not the Action, it’s the Reaction.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In improvisations in our class, we often see students' too much effort to convey a comic story (ideas of events) in order to make the scene comedic. However, a comic story becomes "visually comical" only after the character’s sincere thoughts reach the audience whether it is a theater audience or a film camera. The process of becoming comic is very different from writing a comic story in words searching for unexpected events in the story.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Comedic thoughts?</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The word "comedic thoughts" may sound unclear for some people.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How can we make comedic thoughts? Here are some basic aspects to see if you can make your thoughts comic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"Comedy is square. Drama is round."</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>1</b>. Is your non-verbal monologue visually square or soft and round? If soft and round, choose fewer moments of thoughts, hold a little longer on each thought and paint a dot with your eyes in the air for each thought. Keep breathing and hold your thought vibrant while you paint the dot. Then connect dots (thoughts) with straight lines and make those dots (edges of thoughts) sharp, not round. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>2</b>. Are your eyes and cheeks seen by your audience? If not, look for a range of directions where your cheeks are seen from your audience while you share your thoughts (Wish, Doubt, Believe). Comedic thoughts must be visible to the audience first.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"The Spielberg" </b>- Always feel where your audience is and adjust your face angle to have your eyes and face seen as much as possible, instead of expecting your audience to approach you with flying cameras like Spielberg movies. We, the performers, become the flying cameras for the audience. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3</b>. If you sing your phrase, does the rhythm sound comic? If you count each thought as beat, you should be able to sing your thoughts like an instrument.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If the beats in the musical phrase you sang were evenly spaced or sound somehow boring, it is called "The Flat-lining". You just entered a dangerous zone where your audience may consider leaving you soon. How can you break the rhythm to get out of the dangerous zone? Make every beat different in length and the emotional pitch (physical tension), and surprise yourself with spontaneity.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>4</b>. Can you put yourself as a sympathetic victim of the situation in your scene (in pain physically or psychologically)? If not, try to lose the sense of "In Control" of your situation and make it "Out of Control". Then, scream with your eyes, <b>"It is not funny to me!" </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>5</b>. While your character is in trouble, can you still remain light?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In other words, are you keeping your eyes open and readable and a little stupid that you cannot completely understand the danger? Even if the story can lead to a life or death situation, your audience does not like to imagine blood or an ambulance in a comedic scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Comedy is not a "911 – Emergency!"</b> It’s an escapable “Terror.” The character is a victim with an exit to the situation. Like he is about to get run over by a car, He screams! Then he falls into an open manhole in the street that saves his life. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do not close your eyes or you will make the scene go dramatic. The comedy is always in your eyes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You just finished the basic principles of Physical Comedy. Did everything make sense to you? Then, you are now ready to study the next level of Physical Comedy such as "The 1-2-3 Setup", "Bait & Switch", "A Drop Off" and "A Shake Off" and many, many more. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We recommend watching great comedy films, old and new, and you will learn great rhythms by watching them over and over. Gregg recommends: Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The Philadelphia Story. Groundhog Day. The General. City Lights. The Pink Panther movies. Monster’s Inc. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today I will answer one of the questions from a reader regarding my last article. The question was about how "The Flashlight" for indoor space is done physically in relation to "Eye Focus" and "The Attitude Phrase".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In our New York studio, I recently demonstrated this technique using an actual flashlight. It was very helpful for the students to understand the process and its timing. And their immediate improvement I saw was unbelievable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Imagine you are wearing a head lamp which has a narrow focused flashlight attached to it. You enter a dark room with the head lamp on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Shine "The Flashlight" (head lamp) on a diagonal high corner of the indoor space. You "See" a wall clock hung there with your head and eyes together. Immediately adjust your eye focus to recognize the clock like you naturally do in life when you try to read a street sign. This should take almost two seconds. (Two beats = see, recognize.) </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As you “recognize, inflate (coil) your body into an attitude. Then, move to the next point. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">* You only have about 6 to 10 seconds of stage time to “Paint the Space” that you are in. Best advice is to make this a musical phrase of beats that are quick thoughts about the place. This is illustrated in the examples that follow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Keep your flashlight pointing there and say to yourself a few quick thoughts in beats such as "Oh? clock... cool!" while making your eyes farsighted and focused upon the clock. Then, you can add a few minimal moves with your eyes, painting “thought dots” in the air, independently from your head. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">* Internally sing short syllable words like above or simple sounds. Thoughts for "The Flashlight must be square and quick taking only a few seconds at the most for one glance. Do not take longer time or describe the thing with gestures. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">* It’s true that a simple visualization such as a clock in the performer's mind helps us achieve a better acting moment, during this phase of your play. But it is not important "what" we are visualizing. What it is important, is that we ARE visualizing something in order to show a “place” around us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While “painting the space” stay in one place, do not walk around. Quickly repeat Sections 1 and 2 above on two or three more points at different heights and angles from where you are until you see the space in your own imagination. Each space will take a different time and rhythm. Describing a Church will be more lyrical and a busy street in Times Square will be more frenetic. The opening moments of a play can be the most enjoyable part once you take advantage of these tools.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Let's find "The Attitude Phrase" in each glance of "The Flashlight" for indoor space. One glance (at one corner of the space) consists of two sections. Section 1 is "See", and Section 2 is "Wish", "Doubt", and "Believe".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Section 1)</b> You see a point with the head lamp and eyes together and recognize (visualize) a thing. This is the moment of <b>"See"</b> in "The Attitude Phrase". Your eyes get focused on the thing by widening your eyes in a second.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You just completed a quick "Attitude Phrase" (See, Wish, Doubt, Believe) about the thing you saw on the corner of the indoor space. This "Attitude Phrase" is shown so fast that people hardly notice it. But if that is missing, your audience will easily get lost in your play.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here is a video link to Gregg's "Phantom 309", my favorite play. Watch this play and see how quickly he puts in "The Flashlight" when he enters the cafe. He sees the corners and things sitting there, so we, the viewers, create the space through our own memory and imagination. It is not important "what" he saw, but it is important "that" he saw.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">There are different ways to establish your "Visible Environment" and we often combine various techniques in accordance with the characteristics of the play. Today, I will explain only the very first step I call "The Flashlight", an effective way to visually create the foundation of the space before you add "The Depicting Objects" which was explained two weeks ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As soon as you enter an indoor space, you give a quick glance with eye focus at three different points. It is often effective if you choose one diagonal corner, which is a farthest point from you, and two other points in different angles and heights. At each focus point, stop your head for two beats and let your eyes register a thought. This will feel like your eyes are painting dots, which eventually paint a picture of your space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Always remember to reflect quick thoughts on each point you see. But you don't want to make it a great deal by "describing" the unknown things for it is only about a rough idea of the space. Simply visualize the things sitting at those corners. Colorful thoughts naturally come out from your visualizing eyes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And after those three stops on dots, you can give a phrase of after thoughts about that space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This "Flashlight" process helps the audience understand the general size and shape of the three dimensional indoor space and the relationship between you and the space through your thoughts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you enter a church, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">1. You can look at a diagonal far corner visualizing a stature or painting there, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">2. Then, look at a little closer object at a lower height visualizing someone kneeling there, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">3. Then look up the high ceiling with stained glass taking a little longer time, in order to give the initial idea of "a spacious room with a high ceiling". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">4. Then you can give an “after-thought” phrase, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">5. Then start to add "The Depicting Objects", i.e., actually touching "Visible Objects".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>2) Broad Focused Flashlight for Outdoor:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When you go outdoors in your scene, or your scene starts outdoors, you can smoothly brush a “faraway” look with your eyes over your horizon line above your audience with your head to create an outdoor image around you. Never stop your eyes on any object. (For distance, imagine you are at the beach, you trace the ocean left to right, and you do a similar diagonal arc, like tracing a rainbow to create the sky.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">No specific thoughts need to be involved in this horizontal stroke. It is done just to quickly establish the basic information as "Outdoor" in the audience's mind. And after this "Introductory Space Reflection", you can start "The Depicting Objects" such as reflecting a bird flying by, finding a bench, a dog barking at you, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>3) No Bulb Flashlight for No-Place. (The Placeless Plot): </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the writing structure called "The Placeless Plot", the scene is not in a specific scenery, i.e., you do not introduce your environment on purpose. It is still your responsibility to provide that information and keep your environment coherent in that texture of "no-place".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>The Flashlight with no bulb</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">At the very beginning of the "No-Place" scene, you can give a kind of spacy and abstract moving gaze around you, never focusing your eyes on any point in your view, scenery. Imagine that you are blind and looking around to feel the air. When the illusion (of the play) appears, you can only focus at the illusion. But never focus at other objects around you, for such a simple look can trigger images of an environment in the audience's mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>The Flashlight - its process and effects:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The process of "The Flashlight" - Introductory Space Reflection takes place in a split second like a magician's trick not being noticed by most viewers, but the effect is enormous. It enables the next process of "The Depicting Objects" to work smoothly. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Because most objects can possibly exist both indoor or outdoor, and we should always avoid confusing audience. Also, we all like to bring furniture in after knowing the size of the room and painting the walls of the room, don't we? That is the order we like to recognize in our imaginary world as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you miss the process of "The Flashlight", the audience will be forced to keep guessing the answers between indoor, outdoor or where while you are far ahead of them showing the objects and events in the story. They sure feel like being left in a dark room without a flashlight, worrying about bumping head or stubbing toe in a nightmare...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But once you learn how to guide your audience to enter the space with you, you will soon hear your audience "get" where you are, and find yourself enjoying a stronger connection between you and your audience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 32.71875px;">Today, I will write about how to draw the scenery, "Visible Environments" on stage. The entire subject of “Making the Invisible Environment become Visible” is too large to cover in one article, and before I realized it, I caught myself writing an 8-page article. Consequently, I decided to make today’s post concentrate on one of the most essential concepts we use to make an environment become visible on stage. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">This concept, developed by Goldston in the early 1980’s and is called: “The Depicting Object." It is the method of quickly showing the “object” that best “describes” the environment you are showing your audience and today, I will elaborate on this topic.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">B) Visible Environments: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">B-2) The Depicting Object:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 32.71875px;">In order for a visible environment to be painted clearly in the audience's mind, showing a unique object that most typically appear in such an environment (place) is necessary. We call this technique “The Depicting Object.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">“The Depicting Object" follows the proper "Introductory Space Reflection (B-1)" which is to show the general space size and indoor / outdoor information. (Abbreviated here)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">Example 1 - Golf Course:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 32.71875px;">After "Introductory Space Reflection" as outdoor, you can hold and swing a golf club, and put a golf ball and hold the golf club again. The earlier in your play you add a Depicting Object, the sooner the audience will identify the environment, they will quickly “paint in” the rest of the scenery within your place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">Example 2 - Bathroom:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 32.71875px;">After you give three quick glances (Introductory Space Reflection to show the Indoor space size), you can show a toothbrush, razor, and shower. Note that the fewer objects you use the better. The beauty of the Depicting Object is “Economy”, not to create a guessing game of objects. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">Example 3 - Bedroom: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 32.71875px;">After you give three quick glances (Introductory Space Reflection to show the Indoor space size), you probably need to first show a bed, then a night table, and a night lamp. Those are better objects and better order to show than, let's say, a book, and a bookshelf, and a bed. Even though those objects may exist in some bedrooms, if you choose an unessential object, it can lead the audience in the wrong direction and confuse your viewers.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">The important thing to remember is that, in a mime show, your audience’s mind is working quickly to find the answers to: "what?" plus "what?" plus "what?" to create "where?" and then "who?" Once they understand this information they can move onto WHY? At this point, they can look for the plot in your story. Remember, a human brain will not relax until it solves its’ problem. At the beginning of a mime play, the brain is only thinking: Where! Afterwards, it can think about Who and Why. Those answers are arrived at one hint at a time in the audience's mind in the exact order you present it to them. If the Objects you show are in the wrong order, it can actually erase the images you've already painted in their mind.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">Example: "Oh, a book, ... and a bookshelf? ... it must be a library! Oh wait, ... a bed? A bed in a library? I must be wrong. Let's see what this program says..." See how quickly it is to lose your audience! Never assume that because You know what it is, that They do.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">We need to choose objects that quickly and directly create images and ideas of "Where the character is now". Also the order of objects to establish an environment needs a special care in consideration. If a golf ball appears before a golf club, most people are forced to guess between so many possibilities while you are holding that mysterious little ball. A golf club is a much easier object to identify a golf course than a golf ball, so the golf club should appear first for a faster relief.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">And we must care for our audience and approach our public as if they have never seen a mime play before, nor an expert in the field of objects or environments you are creating on stage. Uncertainty in mime is painful for the audience.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 32.71875px;">That is a difficult part if writing / choreographing mime plays. We always have to start with a blank canvas and draw our play visually and objectively, and give one information at a time, in a correct order. It reminds me of the difficulty I found when I needed to erase my adult knowledge and explain things to a little child. Assumption of being understood is the most common mistakes in this art form. "How would they know that?" should be the most frequently asked question we the choreographers ask ourselves while we write a mime play.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The Art of Mime is known as "Making the Invisible Visible." (A famous quote by Marcel Marceau.) In mime, we make our character’s inner monologues, (non-verbal thoughts) become visible, the invisible objects and environments become visible, invisible illusions become visible, and even invisible characters become visible.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here is how we categorize these and in this article I will focus on the first one and the rest in upcoming articles. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>A) Visible Objects </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>D) Visible Illusions </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><i>E) Visible Inner Monologues</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For better understanding, I will use the following terms: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">“Objects,” will refer to things found within a Place, such as a coffee pot inside of a kitchen, and “Illusions” will refer to a Classical Illusion, such as a Wall, Rope, Ball, with which an entire play can be created from. I am referring to "The Placeless Plot" writing structure. It is true that those too are non-existent objects and it is helpful to clarify which of these I am referring to in this article. We typically categorize this difference due to the different type of play writing structure in which they appear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In the future, I will write more specifically about The Placeless Plot illusions such as the wall, balloon and rope and the variety of ways these can be used.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Today, I will focus on the “Mime as a Magician” side of our art form - making non-existent “Objects” visible. Let's first look at how to “technically” create this phenomenon within your performance, and enable your audience to paint these objects in a most colorful and astonishing way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our audience is so smart and creative that they can paint our objects more beautifully with their imagination than what we actually draw on stage, "if” we properly introduce and maintain those objects within our scenes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>A) Visible Objects:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By touching and mirroring the characteristics of the objects with the contacting part of your body, e.g., when you show a door, your hand makes a shape of a doorknob and your elbow moves like a door hinge. When your door is shut, your hand becomes the hard surface of the door. Your hand is no longer a hand. It becomes the doorknob or the door surface when you are touching it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Note 1: When you release your hand from the door, you loosen the tension of your hand, making your hand round to show that it is no longer flat/door surface. (If you skip this clear change of hand shape, it visually looks like your door keeps following your hand until you do it.) Then keep your hand there for a second to spotlight from your palm toward where you were just touching. This way, the invisible object stays visible longer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Note 2: Before touching your object, we often need to give at least a glance to the object (with your head, instead of only eyes), and project some thoughts about the object. This preparation helps your audience see the moment of introduction to the object. If you miss it, your audience will feel left behind of your magic, thus your magic becomes private.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In other words, you SEE it, then WISH (first thought) then DOUBT (second thought), then BELIEVE (conclusion) before touching it. This phrase can be very subtle depending on the relation between the character and the object. However if there is no thought before touching, it can hardly become visible to your audience. It is your responsibility to make it visible, or there is nothing but your body on stage. And remember, your audience sees your object through your eyes/thoughts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The “Entire body” directly reflects the universal image of the object. With touching or without touching, looking at the object from a close distance to it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Example 1: You make your entire body delicate and lovely if you are picking or looking at a delicate and lovely thing like a flower or a feather.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Example 2: You make your entire body square and stiff, if you are touching or about to touch a square hard thing like a table.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Of course you need to put thoughts (from the character's point of view, not that of the object) super-ceding your hands or body. You, the character, are the star of your play, not the objects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This A-1 and A-2 are often combined simultaneously or sequentially. The next one A-3 is a little bit similar to A-2 but it is used more indirectly to establish or maintain your Visible Environment. A Visible Environment is painted with a set of key objects (usually with three or more objects to best identify the Environment) plus your projections towards them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It can be done without touching, or after touching it. There are different ways to make Indirect Reflection with Whole or Parts of Body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>1) Thoughts from a distance - By looking at the object and showing thoughts about it:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Imagine a scene in a sport bar. You are leaning on the bar drinking. Then you see a huge TV screen, which is showing a football game. How do you make the TV screen and the game visible? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You don't want to touch the TV screen at a bar, which will look strange. Touching is definitely most helpful to make it visible, but it can be done only if you can find a natural reason to do so in your acting/scene. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here, without touching, you can first find the TV (SEE), then notice what's showing in the screen with at least a couple of thoughts (WISH / DOUBT), and reflect your excitement (BELIEVE) in your eyes and face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But you have not conveyed enough info to your audience to help them recognize what was showing in the screen. They see that you are excited, but they have no idea why you are excited. So, here is another way to help them visualize the game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>2) Mirroring from a distance - By mirroring the essence / characteristics / activities of what the character sees:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Continued from the sport bar scene above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You can also reflect some activities of the players in the game, using short slow-motion images of a player running with a ball, throwing a ball, and cheering, woven into the gestures of the guy in the bar. It can be done very much like a quick recap of a "Metamorphosa" play. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Mime is magical. You can create a gradation of images and take the audience with you to a dream state at once.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">With #1 and #2 both combined, finally your audience will recognize that you are watching a football game in a TV screen!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>3) Maintaining an Object from a distance:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This is my favorite, which is used to gradually create, or steadily maintain the invisible objects visible. By giving subtle, unnoticeable glances from a corner of your eyes to the object in the required frequency, you can maintain the energy connection between you and the object, thus you can maintain its visibility of the object in your audience's imagination.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I will explain how it’s done with the following example:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I learned this technique from Gregg when he was helping me create a comedic play about a pianist in a concert hall. I entered the stage, introduced my character, gave three quick glances with thoughts to show the Environment, which was a concert hall, and the third glance was the grand piano. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I needed to make the piano clear to my audience, because it was important for the story. So, I lightly traced the shape of the piano with my hand, while I shared my thoughts about it. Then I put my music sheets on the piano and made some noise by mistake, a couple more jokes here and there, the spinning chair broke, etc., then I left my piano. I went to downstage center, more jokes there, and bowed to the audience. I think the story started something like that.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, when I looked back to the piano, the piano had completely disappeared! This happened “only” because I didn’t know how to maintain its visibility without touching it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I wondered: How could I maintain the visibility of the non-existent piano on stage while I was not “touching” it? And even more difficult, was when I was far away from it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I then saw how Gregg could so naturally demonstrate this technique for me and how there was a method to keep the piano staying so clearly visible in the audience’s mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When your body has to leave an invisible key object, you have to give indirect glances to it, often from a corner of your eyes, in the required frequency and rhythm. If you want to know the frequency for a specific scene/object, ask an outsider's eye. That will train your intuition to know what is needed for your case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">By giving the glances, you can keep in touch with the object while you are away from it. It is like saying casual hello to its existence before any audience member forgets that it is there. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is created with a constant attention to it, using a type of mimed projection from your body parts to the object. The energy you project towards the object is similar to how you pay attention to an important guest in your room while you are not looking at him. You give him a space to sit and relax, then keep paying indirect attention to him without disturbing him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Another example is this: Imagine you “own” the stage space and then be consistently aware of the fact that: “Nobody should invade your space.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Suddenly, someone brought a grand piano and left it there. How do you react psychologically and physically? Maybe you feel pressure from the foreign invader. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you would like to know how it is done physically, I would advise you to imagine that the piano is blowing gentle winds toward you continuously, so your body is a little blown away from the piano. Then, every so often, you are reminded about the invader in your space. You know it's there, so you do not look at it directly, but the corner of your eyes is capturing it every few to several seconds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now, let's replace the pressure from the piano with the kind of thoughts your character has towards the object. If you like the object, the projection between you two becomes a positive connection with respect. If you hate the object, the projection between you two becomes a negative uncomfortable one.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">While you keep projecting towards the object, you also receive that projection “back” from the object. You create a “mutual connection,” just as you would in a human relationship. This gives the Object the stronger importance, and with this method the Object begins to have a life of its own. Then the object stays visible for the audience's eyes and at the same time, your emotional relationship to it also becomes much stronger. This is the magic you can control technically and then over time, it will help you become a stronger Mime Actor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Why is it important to remind your audience about objects? Because if your audience forgets where the "important" objects were or what objects were there in the environment you established once, they feel lost and confused. They will begin to feel like they are losing their memory not being able to remember what happened five minutes ago. Eventually they become frustrated and will later hold this against you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Another thing to remember is that if you create an object that is not important after being used once, you should “purposely” make it disappear. By doing that purposely, you tell your audience they do not need to remember this object. In Film terms, we would call that Object an “Extra” not a “Main” character.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Objects need their proper balance of visibility in order to guide your audience through your play. It is similar to what we see in regular theater as lighting design, adjusting stage lighting in order to switch the focus of the play, and quickly make necessary changes of your stage setting and props around you while it is dark. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In mime, most magic tricks are purposely created right in front of your audience. You remain in a spotlight, make things appear and fade away like how film uses special effects. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That is why mime is known as a mysterious art form. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">When our public tries to describe what they saw, felt, or imagined; they will often use words like: Astonishing, Mesmerizing, Unbelievable, and Magical!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It was for this reason I was inspired to write an article about one of the most powerful elements within our art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Our job is to create the visible world properly and steadily, simplified and universal enough so that your audience can follow the story line easily and enjoy painting it as they wish. Usually they paint our invisible world by using their own memories. That is why your objects need to be universally recognized ones, those that the audience can identify quickly, then their minds can “play in this world with you,” not spend their time running behind you “guessing” what is going on. The <i>MAGIC</i> in Mime isn’t that we can make them see something that isn’t there…the Magic comes from what we do with that thing “once they see it.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is in this moment that our technique, becomes an Art.</span><br />
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<span dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;"><br style="line-height: 32.727272033691406px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;">I tell you this story to show how personally he was planning the strange session just for me, and expanding my potentials by presenting what "I" needed to hear, first expect, confusedly think, and finally realize at "that particular phase of my training". </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;"><br style="line-height: 32.727272033691406px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;">If I did not need to actually draw the figures "many times" (which sounds wasting, doesn't it?) before I<span style="line-height: 32.71875px;"> learned </span></span><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal;">that lesson, I did not feel the "needed" disappointment afterwards. Concept is easy. Experience takes fruitless looking time, and that time you take to reach the realization really teaches you lifetime.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;"><br style="line-height: 32.727272033691406px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;">I have a six year </span><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;">old son. He likes to wait on top of a slide in a park and make everyone behind him wait forever, until he really wants to "Go". It seems like a cheep power game and most mothers would say "Go go go! Your friends are waiting behind you!" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;"><br style="line-height: 32.727272033691406px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;">Of course I sometimes feel urged to say that too, but I intentionally ignore the pressure on me and wait for his own voice to say "Go!" He still has his own voice and knows his own power to hold people's attention on him. If you really try doing what he was doing on the slide, you will understand that it is exactly the same power we hold and project on stage. I never want him to lose it. Gregg taught me "that" many years after I lost it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;"><br style="line-height: 32.727272033691406px;" /></span><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;">Breaking and changing the rhythm in performance, holding a thought extremely long, "The Forever Takes" to keep the tension between you and your audience alive, etc. etc... </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 32.727272033691406px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times,Times New Roman,serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 32.727272033691406px;"><i>Many technical challenges in mime performance depend on your ability to listen to "your own voice", and often it requires a strong boldness to recognize that inner voice.</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Marcel Marceau adored Chaplin and he studied Chaplin for many years. That is also a well known story in the world of mime art. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If you have a chance, try to look really closely at Chaplin's innocent eyes and
character. We call that type of character "the cookie" . This term
came from Gregg's funny story about a parrot's way to ask her owner for a
cookie. She always made the request irresistibly charming.</span></div>
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"cookie" in our class. Because those Chaplin's eyes can get inside
people's heart, like lovable baby eyes. </span><span style="background: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">I already wrote about some
eye muscle exercises to make the perfect frames for strong thoughts. But I
would also like to write about something most essential for all artists who
deal with thoughts, which is the "inside" of your eyeballs. </span><span style="background: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">A decade ago, Gregg told
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future, you will have to face how you really see the world. You may avoid
facing this for now, but because you are a serious mime, it will eventually
come back to you and will beat you." </span><span style="background: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">What a quote... This made
me think deeply for years about the link between my psychological state and
performance quality. Overtime, I slowly processed what he meant by "how
you see the world".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: white;">This applies to other art forms as well, but especially in mime, because we
convey the story mostly through thoughts coming out from our eyes, audience notices
if our eyes are not "innocent". Pure thoughts cannot come through
opaque eyes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: white;">If we are holding fears, shyness, insecurity, self consciousness,
competitive consciousness, evilness..., or any mental state that shuts our
heart, our believable thoughts cannot reach the audience. What the audience
sees is a set of empty eyes with no real thoughts inside. And often, the
audience unwillingly witnesses the dark shadow in our subconsciousness. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Have you ever watched a
well written mime play with very skilled performers, but for some unknown
reason you felt sick of watching? That is probably the shadow you accidentally
witnessed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: white;">Here is a quote by the jazz trumpeter
Dizzy Gillespie saying exactly the same thing in "Dizzy" by Lee
Tanner.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: white;">"The first thing we must keep in mind about a musician is that the music
he plays is a reflection of his true self. His music might not be what you, the
listener, thinks he is, but truly, he can no more escape himself through his
playing than we can escape the contingent world in which we are placed, except
through death. You are what you are; that is reality, you can't escape it. And
the reality of the musician - especially the jazz musicians - is that the music
is a continuance of himself."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: white;">Audience is a symbol of your world. And in your subconsciousness, the world you
see is a reflection of how you see "yourself". </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: white;">How do you see and feel your world? Can you truly love and trust your world,
which is a reflection of your true self? Can you share your thoughts as if there
is no border (proscenium) between you and your world? Can you freely allow your
audience to become "you" and live your emotional
moments? Universality in this art form is disturbed if
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no border to separate a baby from his world. There is only oneness existing
within his eyes.</span></span></div>
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Japan, where the society expects everyone to overly humble themselves. I
knew it, but I had no idea how much that social system negatively affected my
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"shyness", has become the toughest challenge I found in my
career. After I recognized this barrier, I decided to go back to my
forgotten past and reprogram my relationship with self and world step by step.</span></span></div>
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innocence were somewhat similar, but later learned that shyness is in fact the
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inside. Contrary, innocence is absence of disbelief in yourself or the world.
Thus, confidence and innocence are synonymous. I believe that true
confidence we the performers want to gain is the strength to focus on innocence
and self-belief until it wins and melts the shadow
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long journey for me to acquire real innocent confidence where the shadow
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In my previous post "Where Do You Look", I wrote about the "Look Away" and how it is projected direction-wise. We use several terms around this subject such as </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"The Look Away", "The Universal Audience", "The Takes", etc. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I recently started using a word "The Moon". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b>"The Moon" to Create Farsighted Eyes:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Imagine, you are walking outside at night. You find the gigantic Moon (a hundred times bigger than the normal Moon) in the sky, right in front of you, slightly above your eye height. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">How do you look at the Moon? You might feel afraid of the power of the Moon. You know that you have no control over it. And then, think of something else, which happened ten years ago, or yesterday, or in your night dream, while you still face the Moon. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Do you feel that the muscles behind your eyeballs are wide open and you are no longer looking, but you are visualizing a thing (could be a physical thing, person or concept which does not exist there) with strong flows of energy coming out from your eyes?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">That is the eye focus to project the powerful "Look Away". The image of the Moon </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">somehow helps many people spontaneously create the perfect eye focus with psychologically "unguarded eyes" which work very well with "The Look Away." No one tries to use nearsighted focus when they see the Moon. The Moon is far and symbolic enough to take us to a state of remembering using farsighted focus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Another difficulty I had in my training to learn this "Look Away" was that when I started hitting perfect "Look Away" moments, my eyes could not keep breathing due to the fear of losing the perfection of the angle and state of eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I did not know how to release the tension of my eyes. With the frozen state of eyeballs, my acting looked too serious, thus, not funny or enjoyable to watch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">If you are having the same problem, you can learn how to change colors of thoughts <u>physically with the muscles behind your eyeballs.</u> Did your teacher tell you that you are not acting even though you were trying so hard to act with your eyes?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">If your eyes are not changing the colors (of thoughts) inside your eyes, your thoughts look superficial and small, even if you open your eyes wide open, hold there and scream your thought internally... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Here is a great exercise for changing colors of your thoughts. It teaches you to relax your eyes in order to breathe like a volcano.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Light a candle (with a real flame) and put it in front of you. Look into the flame and see the shape of the flame which keeps changing. It gets kind of tall and thin, and gets short and wide in sequential order, doesn't it? Notice the irregular rhythm of flame as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Imitate the shapes and rhythm of the flame with your eyes using the muscles behind your eyeballs. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Then, add actual thoughts in your eyes on top of this physical exercise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">*The muscles behind your eyeballs are used to visualize things that do not exist there. Therefore those are effectively used to show thoughts, i.e., "Wish", "Doubt", or "Believe" in your "Attitude Phrases". </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Contrary, muscles on the front side of your eyes, i.e., the muscles you use to raise your eyebrows or read, help your eyes to "Look" at things with nearsighted focus, thus it helps you show "See" in your "Attitude Phrase". *</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Next section is from my mime acting class. I wrote this especially for you to print and take to the studio to work on. It is a great exercise to melt your frozen eyes and create breathing effect in your thoughts. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sit on the floor and play music. We actually recommend a specific song to do this exercise: "Gymnopedie" by Nurturing Baby Tunes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">1) Have someone tell you the numbers at random.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Numbers are between 0 and 120. Those numbers are the percentage of the size of your eyes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">20 is slightly open.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">50 is half way open.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">80 is comfortably open.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">100 is totally open wide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Try to sing the notes (music) only with eyes by changing its colors and sizes, like you did to the candle flame. Then <u>later</u>, add your chin, then after that, add your chest (subtle enough so you feel that the motor is in your eyes!). Then, subtle movement, like very small wiggles, of your hip bones on the floor. Always remember that "eyes" are first for this exercise, and other parts are only reflecting your eyes' breathing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Example: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">0..(wait 1 to 10 seconds in between these numbers using various length of break) ...... 20 ....... 30 ... 20 .. 30 .. 20 .... 50 ......... 100 .... 120 ... 80 ........... 90 ... 80 ... 90 ... 80 .... 40 ............ 10 .. 20 ... 30 ......... 40 ........ 120 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">2) Same exercise again, but this time, add a specific character or age of the character before starting it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Examples: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Now, you were just born ....(numbers).....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">80 years old ....(numbers).....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">You are evil ....(numbers).....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You are a prisoner ....(numbers).....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">3) Same exercise again, adding specific scenes occasionally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Examples: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now you are 5 years old... leaving your mother for the first time ...(numbers) ..... </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Going to school, playing with friends.... (numbers) ....</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> happy and excited .... (numbers) ..... insecure .... (numbers) ..... lonely .... (numbers) .... etc...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Any inspirations to change the character or color of thoughts are helpful for this eye focus exercise. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Even though the language and grammar of mime is quite specific and scientific, it is important to make the edges of your body movement including eye expressions not too tight. If you are too tight on stage, either physically or psychologically, audience cannot relax and watch you or laugh. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I will write about psychological aspect within your projected thoughts another time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Do you know "where" you should look when you project a strong thought on stage? Especially in a mime play, it being wordless, showing the thoughts is the core of how we convey the story. If those are not clear to your audience, the story becomes unclear to them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">In performance: character thinks, then character feels. If you said this in words, it would translate to this: “I think this will make me sad.” This seems elementary because it is so logical when you read it here; but we have found that few performers are aware of the difference between thought (wish, doubt) and emotion (believe) and how to deliver them in a phrase. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In my previous post titled "How To Show Thoughts On Stage", I explained the structure of an "Attitude Phrase" to deliver each thought in proper order to make a thought process visibly clear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This also applies to other art forms. Even if you can speak the lines or sing the lyrics fluently, your eyes can still confuse your audience if those are used ineffectively. Once you learn the method of how to deliver your thoughts and where to project them from eyes on stage, those two eyes will become the most powerful tools you can use to touch your audience. So we, as mime artists, study not only the delivery of each thought but also the projection (direction) of thoughts using exercises of eyes and face as well as the whole body.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I think most dancers can improve acting by learning the technique I am describing here. Dance techniques in general have much farther developed than acting in dance, as figure skaters' jumps keep breaking the record while most of them have lost acting moments, which were put aside long ago and there is no more space to put it back in... This is what I learned when I was coaching a young talented figure skater who wanted mime technique for that reason. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But are you only looking for record breaking techniques? Don't we secretly look for warm human thoughts and acting moments while we wait for their next jump or spin? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Learning where to look and how to look on stage will add an infinite value to your stage presence called "charisma" you might have been searching for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here is an example, illustrating where the difficulty is of how to play a stage scene:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Imagine, you are in a scene walking on the stage and </span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">just about to find a thing (visible or invisible) on stage. It is a dead person, for example. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Then, where do you actually face and project your thought next moment (on Beat 2) right after that event? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Are you still looking at that dead body saying that line internally? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Or do you give that emotional glance to another performer on stage?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Or do you look into eyes of a spectator sitting in the front row? or the balcony? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We advise you not to do any of the above. Because you have a better and safer way to do it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The most effective and safest area for this "Look Away" we call, is facing the <u>proscenium wall straight ahead of you, at a height slightly above your eyes.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">*This can be adjusted based on the theater structure.*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">And right there, expand (open) the muscles behind your eyeballs and broaden the eye focus to not see any particular thing in the theater, and look far away as if you are seeing a wildfire in front of you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">That's where you can share your thoughts most effectively with everyone in the theater. The combination of this particular direction of thought projection and powerful farsighted eye focus enables your audience to feel you as a universal character, thus, helps them feel "included" in your scene. I will write about how to control your eye focus at another time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We call this "The Look Away" because we look away from the thing (event) and project a clear reaction to the event towards the audience, like a camera in a film approaching to an actor's face to capture emotional moments. We control the camera work by adjusting the angles of our face (easy to feel it if you think of where your chin is) in a very precise speed variation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This feels extremely unnatural first for a human to learn, but it is the most natural and powerful look for the audience. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The two photos above are great examples to see the difference between the Look Away to share inner thoughts (above) and looking at the audience (below). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">When I first started mime training with Gregg Goldston, I felt that my brain was working harder than my body. Many people feel this way, especially in their early stages of mime training, and are surprised how technical "mime acting" is. Learning to show a clear thought process, which is our visual monologue, was the most foreign element I found in mime training.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, once your brain learns how it works, I assure you that you will be always using this powerful technique to show your thoughts clearly. In fact, we find very similar techniques in great animation films such as my favorite "Monsters, Inc." Readable thoughts bring your art closer to your audience whether it is through a film projector or a live performance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In this Blog Post, I will explain our Terms and Descriptions of the Mime Acting method we have developed and teach here in New York, and at our Institute for Mime in Italy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We intentionally use the word "thought" instead of a more common and similar word "emotion". The word "thought" often conveys better images of visual and clear, i.e., physically choreographed therefore readable, emotions for the audience. Contrary, the word "emotion" can trigger various vague expressions which can hardly work in mime performances.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A single move is called a "beat", a series of 4 to 12 beats is a "phrase", and a series of phrases becomes a "section" or a "paragraph". Getting too technical? Let's move on before you understand what this means.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">An Attitude Phrase consists of 4 or more thoughts (beats). It is a phrase to complete a thought process of a character. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The term the "Attitude Phrase" is equivalent to a sentence in writing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">However, we call it a phrase instead of a sentence. Because in mime, we use "compressed" rhythmic wording, internally of course, instead of long sentences full of eloquent meaningful wording often found in drama.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Although mime is a wordless art form, we do have our own language with grammar. It is much more simplistic than, let's say, ballet or Martha Graham Technique.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In mime, thoughts are projected as visible dots and audible beats, that we can actually count with our eyes and (imaginary) ears by watching. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">3 is your counter-thought. We call it "Doubt". It is just a different thought from 2. It could be a thought with a frown such as ".. but wait a second..." or " .. he actually looks like...", etc. Y<span class="ecxApple-style-span">ou are giving a second thought or doubting about your previous thought.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As I stated earlier, the minimum number of beats in an "Attitude Phrase" is four. It could be five or more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">You can simply add 2 "Wish" and 3 "Doubt" as many times as you would like between 3 "Doubt" and 4 "Believe", i.e., See, Wish, Doubt, Wish, Doubt, Wish, Doubt, then Believe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Basically, you just look for changes of colors in sequential rhythmical thoughts to expand the phrase, i.e., there is no need to use your left brain to identify which is "wish" and which is "doubt". However, "See" and "Believe" are obvious ones you should recognize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We do not have time to say the actual words in grammatical order of your language. Saying long sentences in your head will only make you live in Shakespeare Time, instead of Mime Time, which is always either compressed or expanded. Imagining colors and textures of thoughts helps you a lot to spontaneously express them on dots in the right timing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Feel those colors and textures of thoughts, and just internally sing with sounds that represent those thoughts. Scat singing or imitating instrumental sounds can be helpful for you to learn the rhythm of mime phrasing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Common mistakes are made by using only two thoughts to show an "Attitude Phrase". The structure of this wrong version is below:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"See" (event) - "Believe"(conclusion - happy, sad, etc.). It actually looks very thin and fake, thus, incorrect on stage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A. You find an apple in a box. ("See" Event A)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The example above is not a 4-beat phrase, instead, those are two separate 2-beat (incomplete) phrases. The performer skipped 2 (wish) and 3 (doubt) before both conclusions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A. Look in a box and see an apple </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">" ... I think that is a..." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">* Here, you don't complete the sentence, so you suspend the end of this thought as if you are still "in the middle of this thought process". In other words, you have not understood your emotional reaction towards the event.*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"... but why is it...?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">" ... I now understand why I found this!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Here is another important element in mime. As long as the thoughts are clear and true to you as images, i.e., you have clear See-Wish-Doubt-Believe in your phrases, your audience will paint their own exciting story and fill with their own monologues, based on the visual images you project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I advise you to consciously train your Attitude Phrases in various rhythms for at least a few months having an experienced viewer to tell you if you are doing them correctly. In my own experience, identifying correct phrases and incorrect phrases took time to get used to. Unfortunately it does not come naturally to most people, but anyone can learn by conscious training.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It is important for you to know that in real life we do not skip these color changes (wishes and doubts) before each phrasal conclusion, and if you skip those elements, people notice that something is not true in your acting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A phrase is a sentence, when it comes to the acting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A phrase is a song, when it comes to an activity. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">And remember, many emotions are colorfully blended and woven into each thought like a candle light in your eyes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Gregg Goldston has given me a countless number of personal mime assignments since I started training with him 13 years ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Moreover, with a friendly smile and also his artistic pressure, he has given me over 100 specific songs to listen to in order to develop my timing and musicality. (And I mean listen to each song for weeks at a time too!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I now understand that it has been his long-term DNA project for my "Musicianship" development.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">What we mean by the term DNA, is a person's natural sense of timing, rhythm, or musicality. We all have a certain timing in our brain based on our upbringing, culture, and/or style of music we listen to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gregg realized around 25-years into his career, that by listening to new styles of music "constantly," his rhythm and timing on stage had changed...without him even realizing it! He then tested this discovery on me for several years and once we saw how it had affected my work too, it became one of our most essential teaching methods to transform out students' performances.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Those were probably about a hundred CDs beside hundreds of songs directly copied to my computer. A wide variety with always some least expected, I mean surprising, type of music I had never chosen to listen to before. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Sometimes, he made me listen to 60's Rock and Roll and told me to memorize every phrase, then Jazz, Blues, a bunch of Bossa Nova, even Japanese songs I didn't know of were handed by him. "Listen to these and stretch your phrasing". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Back then, I had no idea where I was going. I only trusted his guidance, and intuitively followed those unknown paths. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Gregg has been always searching for new unfamiliar music to us. And told me to do the same mime play with different kinds of songs. Bobby McFerrin pushed me to move fast and square. Stephane Grappelli lead me to long colorful phrases. Jeff Beck showed me the possibility to change the pitch and intensity between notes... Slowly, I learned to like this new vulnerable feeling, which was mysterious and fascinating for me.</span><br />
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I can tell you clearly that without my I-Pod, which I "now" literary live, walk and sometimes even sleep with, my career would have never seen the future it has now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">This is how Gregg Goldston trains his students, including myself.</span><br />
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1) Training your own DNA</span><br />
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Listen to certain songs that train and widen the range of your rhythms. The </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">GMI provides our students a playlist to listen to. Those songs are somewhat unfamiliar to you, therefore uncomfortable to listen to first, because that stimulates your untouched zone of musicality. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Most people feel comfortable listening to flat-line tunes. But everyone in your audience gets bored when you flat-line on stage... Consequently, we rarely include slow classical in our list, except for songs we use for lyrical acting training. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Replace your playlist with The GMI playlist. Listen to them over and over until you start humming the songs unconsciously. You will soon notice your newly developed capacity will create a broader texture of rhythms in your performance that </span><u style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-large;">never wants to</u><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"> flat-line again. That becomes a sensor you want to grow and develop into your DNA. And, before you realize it, you also grow to like a broader range of music!</span><br />
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Think and plan ahead of your current DNA. What do you really want to add to your musicality for your career?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Longer phrases to create "Cookie"/"Chaplin" persona?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Floating Bossa Nova fluency?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Banging or uplifting beat to wake up your audience?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Threatening intensity and cool bending "between" notes you find in Jeff Beck?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">2) Explore different texture in your movements. If you always move in robotic texture with a jerk, make the edges softer like a pillow, If you are too flat soft and slow, suspend the edges to add stress, or stop sooner with intensity. It is helpful to use different music to do your old play. It helps to break your habitual rhythm and push you to the edge which is unfamiliar to you and unsafe. Find where you feel unsafe. That is where "Musicianship" lives.</span><br />
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3) Do your simple routine exercises with different rhythms. Your inclinations/rotations are always done with uptempo? Do it with sleepy bouncy light-weight music or even with a violin solo. What will happen? You will enjoy it very much and will want to report the effect to others!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Walk in place, run in place, objects, eye exercises, or anything can be ten times more beneficial with different rhythms.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />I will write about some simple exercises to mix multiple rhythms in your performance at another time. </span><br />
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"Musicianship" is a type of musicality with performer's specific state of mind and body naturally woven into mime performance. It is a blend of physics and internal singing, which create visual music in the state of "groove". </span><br />
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In my opinion, "Musicianship" can happen only if your body knows how to Coil and Uncoil "effortlessly", as great musicians can "groove" only through complete control and freedom of their rhythms.</span><br />
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In 2003, Gregg started writing a new play titled "Portrait of a Song" TO a jazz tune called "Spain" by Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea. I recall that he literary memorized every phrase within the 11 minutes tune and acted/moved to the actual phrases. It was an experimental play for him. He cut the song into several sections, act TO the phrases and rehearsed without mirrors just as musicians never play looking at themselves objectively/self-consciously when they groove.</span><br />
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Gregg wanted to "become" the music, so he focused on the essence of rhythms and melodies. Because of the type of music, the perfection he was searching for became the improvisational playfulness and effortless fluency in the groove. It was a mesmerizing piece which made many people cry including myself. After that discovery of Musicianship, He developed another play "The Argument", like a magic box of "Musicianship".</span><br />
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If you have a pair of ballet shoes with flat sole, please bring them to our class. If not, we strongly recommend you to get one. "Musicianship" is hard to learn barefoot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I used to cry often watching my own performance videos. "Why do I look so small and shy on stage?" "How can I look bigger and more confident? "How do I gain charisma?" "How can I reach my audience?"...</span></span><br />
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If anything above is a familiar monologue in your head, this post is just for you.</span><br />
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The bigger I tried to move around, the smaller I looked. I froze my body at the end of actions, peeled my eyelids and stared with my frozen eyeballs at the air above my audience. "Did you see what I did?" "Are you following me?" "Am I clear now?" Yes, I was clear. I looked like a "clear" crystal doll. My body was not breathing or changing the colors. I was not "coiling."</span><br />
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Marcel Marceau called this "Suspension." And If you are unaware of what I am speaking about in this blog, go look at photos of him in performance and see how his body is so "larger than life" and how his projection goes out so far into the theater.</span><br />
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Many mimes, including Gregg, had a difficult time learning this very physical technique, since Mr. Marceau would show it, but never broke down the method to attain it.</span><br />
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Gregg and an associate named Rick Wamer spent some two years diagramming it, and even longer to develop a method of teaching it. We now teach this during our program and it has an amazing effect not only on the projection of our students, but also improves their acting and "musicianship".</span><br />
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Below I will explain many of our methods we use while teaching it.</span><br />
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"Coil" is a squeezed and elongated muscle texture, like when you knead bread, created "between" rotated and/or inclined body parts. </span><br />
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Imagine a metal spring. You have taken both hands and pushed the spring together so that it is tighter, then see how the spring is pushing from the middle outward in both directions.</span><br />
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This is how we coil. When you are standing, your hips are the center of the spring, and from the hips we push upwards to your head, and downwards to your feet at the same time. This kind of springs (coils) can exist throughout your body, while you rotate and/or incline body parts.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21.8125px;">There are two primary purposes of coiling.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 21.81818199157715px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">First: reaching your audience with its energy flows from the angles of body parts you create by coiling.</span></span><br />
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Second: creating "off-the-clock" musicality in your movement and acting quality by tightening and releasing them in different rhythms.</span><br />
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Here is a simple example of coiling process:</span><br />
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1. Sit on the floor with straight legs forward, facing your audience, then walk with your hips backward while you stay sitting as tall as possible and keep your chest facing front and slightly pushed forward.</span><br />
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2. Notice that you naturally rotate your pelvis by doing it. And most likely you are forced to coil your waist area between your pelvis and chest. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">That is one long coil you can create instantly. </span><br />
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If your pelvis is rotating right, your waist is coiling (elongated and squeezed) between your chest (facing front) and pelvis (facing right).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Make sure that your waist area looks longer than how it looked before.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />3. Then, rotate your head to the direction of your pelvis (right), so your neck area is now coiling (elongated and squeezed) between head (facing right) and chest (facing front). </span><br />
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4. Try to elongate your neck as much as possible and push it slightly toward your audience as if you are saying "Kiss my neck" to them. </span><br />
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5. Now here, you have two different coils, one in your neck area and the other in your waist area. Notice how much closer you got to your audience while your pelvis and head are no longer directly facing your audience. It is done by making coils effectively.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />6. Now, stand up and make a mime 4th position (balance point is on your back leg) and try to search for other rotations and inclinations around your waist, chest, neck, head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, fingers, heels, ball of feet, toes, ... they are all available parts to train for effective coiling. </span><br />
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**Please be extra careful not to rotate your knees. I will write about specific exercise on heels, feet, toes and pelvis in order to avoid knee injury at another time. In short for now, pelvis rotation must be securely connected with your knee direction so that knee does not independently rotate, never. </span><br />
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There is no need to enter scientific precision in coiling study. That is a black hole if you do. The purpose of coiling is still our lovable audience to stay with, and we do not want to ignore or lose our audience by enjoying the coils too much like scientists in their laboratory.</span><br />
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"Coils" are used and adjusted "undecipherablly" to reach your audience.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">If your body looks like a piece of artwork in a spot light isolated from the house, you are not properly coiling, you are simply rotating and/or inclining your body parts and there is your audience left behind in cold air.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">In other words, do not curl up and stay in a place, where you cannot see, listen to or feel your audience closely. If you have to turn your back to the audience due to a specific scene, use your maximum coils throughout your body to reach your audience with energy flows beaming from your pelvis, fingers, elbows, heels, ball of feet, toes, whatever available that moment. Light them up and touch your audience with those beams.</span><br />
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By training to coil your body parts in different textures of rhythms such as slow burning speed, floating light-weight sleepy bouncy movements or fast cubic "square" movements, etc., you can generate the rich musicality called "musicianship" by just doing that coiling and uncoiling, i.e., releasing the coil.</span><br />
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Acting rhythm, which could be sung with your face and eye expressions, with gestures of hands, arms, etc. must<u> super-cede</u> the body coils. For example, acting rhythm may sound like a violin melody playing on top of other instruments in a symphony. </span><br />
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Some common transformation turns are done by coiling pelvis. You can tighten and loosen the coils on irregular rhythms. That creates a breathing expanding quality of your whole body. The beauty of coiling is that, after certain amount of practice, your trained body will do the effective work on stage "effortlessly" following its own intuition, instead of your brain controlling it consciously. You will be free, and only living your emotions on stage.</span><br />
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Ideally, you want to be thinking only about your thoughts and your "Universal Audience" on stage. And you keep internally singing its emotional rhythms/ melodies, and continuously sending the volcanic vibrations of emotions from your eyes to your "Universal Audience". I will write about this "internally singing" part, which is also called "musicianship" at another time. </span><br />
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