ABSTRACT
The language of pantomime is concrete, but also conditional. It is concrete because first and foremost the silent actor copies human actions 'photographically', only erasing objects and subjects from the 'frame'. It is conditional, since the mime creates just an illusion of the existence of the inanimate matter and the living beings around him, via action and relation. A recommended first strategy in pantomime is observing real human activity. The second strategy begins to take effect when we attempt to perform the same actions without the real objects. Expression comes third. The fourth strategy leads the practitioner into an even more complex world. Many 'silent' artists are tempted to develop gesture-based dialogues and move their lips to imitate respectively the gesture-based language of the deaf or a muted video. Perform all characters, using the technique of immediate plastic transformation and develop the dialogue as a score of actions and counteractions.
