Dutch mime / Marijn de Langen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langen, Marijn de, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mime--History--Netherlands.

Mime.

Physical Description:

340 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This is the first full-length monograph on the history of Dutch mime. 00Dutch mime is a vibrant and innovatory branch of contemporary theatre which evolved in the margins of the theatre establishment from the early 1960s, leaving far behind its origins in literal pantomime. Mime in this Dutch tradition challenges the audience's perception and experience by centring on the bodies and movement of the performers and audience in relation to scenography, time and space. Dutch mime performers and makers are inventors, inclined to start from zero, an empty space in which nothing is fixed and no laws have been established. Since the 1960s, interdisciplinarity has been at the core of its development: it is a theatre practice that defines itself through connections with visual arts, sculpture, music, installation, land-art, literature, architecture, technology and film. 00Dutch mime has generated innovation and upheaval in Dutch and international theatre over the decades. However, until now, its history has not been written. This book fills the gap. It examines and articulates specific embodied knowledge that has been characteristic of the Dutch mime tradition since the 1960s.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 0. Thinking in Movement

Mime is a way of thinking

Dutch mime in context

Zero as a searchlight

Corporeal mime: ascending to zero

A naked actor on a bare stage?

Zero in Dutch mime thinking

Four lines of thought

1. The Body as an Instrument

The drawings of Fran Waller Zeper

The body as a musical instrument in corporeal mime

A hierarchy of body parts

A marionette of flesh and blood?

The mime performer as a manual worker

Mime is music for the eyes

Mimetheater Will Spoor

London 1968: Mime with a difference

Moving Statics

Corporeal mime smoking a pipe

2. Standing Still

Immobility transported

Two qualities of movement

Stillness as movement

Thought made visible

Beginning and ending

Dynamo-rhythm

Steenbergen's roll-up cigarette

The new standing still, part 1

We saw you on the stage, you just stood there and did nothing

Ellen Edinoff's hands

The new standing still, part 2

Getting a grip on time

The case for standing still

3. Making Space Visible

A mime-centric vision of the arts

Amsterdam 1965: School for Movement Theatre Based on Mime

Staying in the right plane

Bizarre mime at the Micro Theater

Personally objective

Objective and subjective mime

Filling the movement

Tackling the space: sensitive, mathematical, sensual

Theatre of the third form

Improvisational structures: playing with the form, performing with the audience

The mime performer as `spatialist'

4. Below Zero

A double zero?

The roaring engine of Karina Holla

Nieuw West

Believing in zero

Below Zero

The climate of the Stedelijk Museum

Rome 1969: twelve horses

A knife in a painting

Leap into the void

Between admiration and destruction

Amsterdam 1982: the boy and the horse

Going below zero

5. Dutch Mime in the 21st Century

Visibility and invisibility

Humanity and posthumanism

The body as it relates to...

Interdisciplinarity and interculturality

Construction and deconstruction

The maker-performer

The spectator as co-creator and co-performer

Going outdoors

Disruption and queerness

New twists.

ISBN:

9048558131

9789048558131

OCLC:

1338300927