2023 YEAR OF THE GREATEST MIMES
A worldwide celebration of the
100th birthday of Marcel Marceau and the 125th birthday of Etienne Decroux
Dear friends,
After a few weeks of discussions among members of the World Mime Organisation about marking important dates in 2023, especially 100 years since the birth of Marcel Marceau on March 22nd, which is also the World Mime Day and 125 years since the birth of Etienne Decroux on 18th of July, it was unanimously decided to officialy declare:
2023 THE YEAR OF THE GREATEST MIMES
A worldwide celebration of the
100th birthday of Marcel Marceau and the 125th birthday of Etienne Decroux
This is a rare and special opportunity for all of us around the world to intensively perform, teach and promote mime, educate and entertain the audience, inspire communities and engage local and national governments, theaters, cultural institutions and media.
In the history of mime we see that the art of mime was thriving as long as one artist was popular and with him or her dying, it seemed as the mime was dying too.
The World Mime Organisation aims to stop that effect and have mime, in any form, media or space be present and prosper at all times. Respect without judging and competing, for all forms, styles, techniques, teachings, schools, philosophies and personalities of mime is crucial for the survival and development of mime and all its practitioners and lovers.
Mime is possibly the first art of mankind, it exists in all cultures and it is understood by everybody because
Mime is the Language of All and as such Mime is the Language of Peace
This year can be a milestone for everyone to learn, respect and celebrate what our predecessors have left us and, instead of being stuck in repetition and imitation, to build on their legacy, move forward and explore and develop new creativity, new media, new techniques, new teachings, new followers.
Let us find extra energy in ourselves to organize, create, communicate and promote (equally important activities) events, letters, research, analogue and digital content in all spaces and media, to engage as many people as possible, educate the audience about mime and celebrate Marceau and Decroux and all the others, in order to open the stage for the greats of the 21st century.
If you want to join the celebration with your activity and have the support of the World Mime Organisation please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
WORLD MIME ACADEMY The concept
About WMA
World Mime Academy is not (yet) an institution of higher education. It is an international educational project aiming to provide high quality intensive workshops of mime, acting, dance, physical theatre and any [ ... ]
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WORLD MIME (Summer) ACADEMY Belgrade, Serbia from June 30th to July 10th 2022 REPORT ON ACTIVITIES 1) LECTURES (Hosted by the Student City Cultural Centre and Pinocchio Puppets Theatre; organized by the WMO):
"Principles and Poetics of Etienne Decroux's [ ... ]
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WORLD MIME OpenAir FESTIVAL July 2nd to 9th in Belgrade & Vrnjačka Banja
World Mime OpenaAir Festival is a spin-off project of the World Mime Academy that will enable the participants as well as professors to perform their longer and shorter [ ... ]
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June 30th to July 10th 2022 in Belgrade, Serbia
The program is intensive and it consists of 4 different workshops with 90-100 minutes classes every day for 5 days (6-7 hours per day) + rehearsals/mentorship for the public presentation + the public [ ... ]
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The promotion of an important book “Marcel Marceau the Poetics of Gesture” by Italyan author PatriziaIovine took place on July 7th at the Great Hall (Aula Magna) of the John Cabot University in Rome.
After almost three years of waiting “Marcel Marceau [ ... ] Read more...
Corporeal Mime: The Thinking Body - Register Online Dates: May 26 & 27 2018 Time: 11am-5pm (with a lunch break) Cost: 5 Intructor: Steve Wasson and Corinne Soum This intensive is co-led by the winner of the 2018 "World Mime Organization [ ... ]
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Over 70 participants from 21 nations came together for the first ever World Mime Conference
27.03.2018, by Angela von Lerber
What images come to mind when you think of the word ‘mime’? – human statues as tourist attractions along a busy pedestrian [ ... ]
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Dear colleagues,
The First WORLD MIME CONFERENCEwas successful for many reasons thanks to all the participants. Allow me to go through some statistics with you and share some information that was not obvious.
When the conference [ ... ]
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The World Mime Organisation has decided to present the "Special WMO Award for the outstanding contribution to the art of mime" to professor Ella Jaroszewicz of the Ecole internationale de théâtre corporel Studio Magenia.
She created her own body movement, [ ... ] Read more...
The World Mime Organisation has decided to present the "Special WMO Award for the outstanding contribution to the art of mime" to Spanish mime artist Carlos Martìnez.
He began his journey as an actor using his voice and words but discovered the power [ ... ] Read more...
The World Mime Organisation has decided to present the "Special WMO Award for the Outstanding Contribution to the Art of Mime" to professor Corinne Soum the co-director of the Theatre de l'Ange Fou and the co-founder and director of the International [ ... ]
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FIRST WORLD MIME CONFERENCE
FINAL PROGRAM
DAY 1, MARCH 21ST , WEDNESDAY
Venue: Rectorate of the University of Arts in Belgrade
(Address: Kosančićevvenac 29)
DISCUSSIONS:
09:15-11:15MIME AS A TOOL OF INTEGRATION (Mime [ ... ]
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"WE HAVE A WINNER! The winner is a logo designed by Mirjana Stanković, a student of the ITAcademy in Belgrade who was our partner in this project. Out of three logos in the final round her design received 50% of the votes casted by WMO Official [ ... ]
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CALL FOR APPLICATION
Dear applicants,
FIST World Mime Students Festival as part of the Festival of International Student Theatre (FIST) is looking forward to invitingyour University/Facultyto apply for participation atthis years festival. This is the [ ... ]
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Dear mime friends, This is the first time we organise the World Mime Conference. We want to bring together mime professionals, practitioners, theoreticians, researchers, artists and producers, professors and students, agents, festival organisers [ ... ]
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Photos: Marceau in Dresden in 200 4. By Brücke-Osteuropa - Own work, Public Domain, wikimedia.orgThe art of mime or pantomime as it is called out of the Anglo-Saxon culture has lost one of the best artists of all time and according to many the best promoter [ ... ]
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Published: Jun 22, 2017
"Dear friends,
Ten years ago, on September 22nd one of the greatest mimes of all times, Marcel Marceau has left this world. This is day of sadness for all the people around the world that respected him and his work and for some [ ... ]
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We would like to inform you that on July 17th at approximately 17:30 (5:30PM Spanish time) in Segovia, Spain during the 35th ITI World Congress the World Mime Organisation became an official partner of the International [ ... ]
Read more...On the occasion of the 10 years since Marcel Marceau left us World Mime Organisation has decided to say THANK YOU to those who enriched our art, our profession and our lives through mime in the past century and are still with us, working, inspiring, teaching, [ ... ]
Read more...Dear mime friends, World Mime Organisation is opening its web site to all the Official Members in good standing to use it as a promotional tool for their projects. Please send us all the news with photos, videos and other illustrations and [ ... ]
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