Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceauwas a French actor and mime most famous for his stage persona as "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", and he performed professionally worldwide for over 60 years. As a youth, he lived in hiding and worked with the French Resistance during most of World War II, giving his first major performance to 3000 troops after the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Following the war, he studied dramatic art and mime in...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth22 March 1923
CityStrasbourg, France
CountryFrance
Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
Mime, like music, knows neither borders nor nationalities,
A magician makes the visible invisible. A mime makes the invisible visible.
It's good to shut up sometimes.
Life is a cycle, and mime is particularly suitable for showing fluidity, transformation, metamorphosis. Words can keep people apart; mime can be a bridge between them.
In a moment of grace, we can grasp eternity in the palm of our hand. This is the gift given to creative individuals who can identify with the mysteries of life through art.
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.