History of Mime Illusions

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Welcome to Expert Village. I'm Mark Wenzel I'm an mime artist and we are going to talk about mime today. First of all the history of mime. Mimes actually are one of the oldest art forms in the world. The caveman, when we would act out the hunt successfully the night before the hunt that was pantermind. The Greeks and Romans all used the action now when you get into the mime all of sudden when it's in Europe. They say well a lot of mimes came from Europe, well why is because you're speaking a different language every time you go another fifty feet. If we spoke another different language every state we went to in the United States mimes would be a lot of more popular. So mimes would travel around, I have a great story about how the mimes got their makeup. They be working in a marker place where money changed hands and there was jugglers and performers and these mimes were being goofy. They would say wait a minute you goofy old mime and they took them and shoved their heads in the flowerbed, they would come up and go wait a minute I like this, this works even better. But now you do see mimes that they have gone all the way through the silent movies, were all mimes, a lot of the following through. Now Marcel Marcel he is the one that really brought mime to America. He of course showed a lot of the mime technique which I would be showing you later on on the thing. So it's really something that has been around for thousands and thousands of years. That is the fun of it is that you're doing an art form that is a basic art form.

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