Pantomime: A performance that communicates an idea or action without using dialogue. Community Call: What do you think are qualities of good pantomime? Pantomime Notes Sections What is Pantomime? Three Basic Qualities of Good Pantomime
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Pantomime: A performance that communicates an idea or action without using dialogue. Community Call: What do you think are qualities of good pantomime?<br>
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Pantomime Notes Sections What is Pantomime?
Three Basic Qualities of Good Pantomime
Three Basics of Pantomime Story Lines<br>
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What is Pantomime? Communicating an idea, character, or story without speaking
Ranks as the most difficult, time-consuming, and technically complicated aspects of theatre
Visibility, gesture, expression, concentration, and energy are vital to pantomime<br>
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Basic Qualities of Good Pantomime Even with much training or time, you can emphasize three qualities necessary to effective pantomime:
Consistency: Objects that are mimed must remain the same size.
Exaggerated Resistance: If a mime pushes against something, pulls something, etc. the resistance of person against object must be exaggerated and made “bigger” than in real life.
Exaggerated Expression and Gesture: If a mime points to someone, cries, laughs, becomes angry or sad, etc. the facial expressions and gestures used must be exaggerated, or made bigger, than in real life.<br>
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Basics of Pantomime Story Lines Your pantomimes must eventually tell a story and hold audience interest. Some suggestions for doing this are:
Keep it Simple: The storyline must be simple if the audience is to understand. A complicated story plot runs the risk of losing the audience somewhere along the way.
Tell a Story: In making up a storyline, actors think in terms of an initial situation (beginning), problem or complication arising in the situation (middle), and a solution to those problems (ending).
Be fantastic!: In pantomime, problems and solutions can be less realistic, more creative, and more fantastic than those in real life or realistic improvisation with dialogue<br>
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Remember… An interesting scene can develop from almost any initial situation, depending on the creativity of the actors. And creativity is something, for most people, that has to be practiced.<br>
