Description: Over sixty selections on mime from the writings of famous mimes, theater people, dancers, choreographers, critics, historians, and teachers. Ms. Rolfe traces the historical development of mime and its present-day manifestations in theater, film, and dance.
Brief description: Originally trained as a dancer, Bari Rolfe studied mime with Marcel Marceau and Jacques Lecoq before she began teaching mime at West Coast colleges. Marcel Marceau said, "Bari Rolfe is an exceptional mime teachers of intelligent humor and poetic imagination."
Review Quotes:
"An important contribution to the history of mime, and certainly the only book of its kind. Excellent!"
John Towsen,
Theater Dept., State University of New York.