HOW TO MIME A WALL by Tony Montanaro

Tony Montanaro's "Mime Spoken Here" is a full mime course on 2 full length DVDs available through www.mimedance.com
Tony Montanaro founded Celebration Barn in 1972 and developed it into a world-renowned theater school for mime, improvisation, storytelling, and other performing arts.
Born in Paulsboro, New Jersey on September 10, 1927, Tony Montanaro earned a theater degree from Columbia University and began performing stock theater with actors such as Jason Robards and Jackie Cooper. After seeing Marcel Marceau's historic 1956 performance at New York's Phoenix Theatre, Montanaro flew to Paris to study with Marceau and with Marceau's teacher, Etienne Decroux.
Montanaro had a long career of rave-review performances in Europe and the United States. He designed and hosted the award-winning CBS-TV children's show Pretendo.
In the years before his death in 2002, Montanaro continued to teach and direct at Celebration Barn and toured widely with his wife, Karen Hurll Montanaro. In 1995, the Montanaros authored Mime Spoken Here: The Performer's Portable Workshop, a guide to the craft of mime, character work, and improvisation.

[@calliesma1]

The ideas in Tony's work change the way we think- they can free thought, encouraging creativity in every aspect of life.

[@voicetube]

I have been watching various mime tutorials on CZcams over the last several days as (potentially if all goes well) I have my VERY FIRST (gulp!) mime gig coming up on Bastille Day!
This is the BEST tutorial I have seen yet (by far) of anybody teaching ANY version of mime work. The two main things I learned that nobody else really stressed like this dude were the conceptS that THE WALL doesn't have to be perfectly flat and to relax about that (as long as one is doing a halfway decent job of presenting the imagined reality) and also the importance of the acting… To really FEEL the emotion and not hide them but incorporate and use emotion which could actually trump technique (I'd say if someone had perfect technique but lacked emotional connection with the movements etc., that MIGHT be inferior to having FAIR technique and excellent emotional connection :-)

[@michaelmenes]

Thanks so much for your wonderful words about Tony's mime tutorial. Tony is no longer with us but there is a new legacy website for Tony Montanaro where you can find his full 4 hour mime course and a lot of information about his life and achievements with opportunities of where to studio physical theater. It's at www.mimespokenhere.com. Good luck with your first mime performance!

[@voicetube]

@@michaelmenes Thank you, Michael!

[@Kevin11sgirl]

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

[@nickpelkey]

I was really fortunate to have met him and had a class while in high school I feel rather privileged.

[@lilianafox7401]

What city was that

[@nickpelkey]

@@lilianafox7401 Kennebunk, ME

[@lilianafox7401]

@@nickpelkey oh thanks

[@nickpelkey]

@@lilianafox7401 most welcome

[@parisianshopgirl]

THanks...I really love it...Ican't wait to get my DVD copy.

[@MsPopeyeolive]

Bravo

[@08tymehereicome]

Great teacher

[@lilianafox7401]

Your cute.

[@TheCaptainsAntics]

3:21 makes me feel like he's talking to me behind a pane of glass that's keeping him from escaping his cell. Or like through a wall in a movie.

[@ryanator619]

wow it looks real

[@real_Hamilton]

haha damn thats so cool!

[@lilianafox7401]

Yea

[@MadJugglerTV]

a new chapter..

[@ryxn9158]

here in 2021 lol