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Mimicry and the urgency of differences

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Mimicry and the urgency of differences

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Mimicry and the urgency of differences book

ByJon Foley Sherman
BookA Strange Proximity

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
Imprint Routledge
Pages 32
eBook ISBN 9781315694900

ABSTRACT

This chapter explains Jane Goodall's lead and position two actor-training programs as sites for reflecting on how performance habituates both attendants and performers to ways of perceiving. The urgency of differences only arrives after students try to divest themselves of difference and fail. Jacques Lecoq separated pantomime from mime, at least partly to recuperate "mime" from the clutches of the pandemic of buskers inspired by Marcel Marceau's "Bip". More important to him was the attempt to take seriously the dynamics suggested by corporeal mimicry. Goodall's project was in part inspired by her uneasiness with the "curious orientalist tendency" that pervades the Western discourse on stage presence. The neutral mask offers a face that is "balanced, which proposes a physical sensation of calm", and there are two versions, a "male" and "female". Similar to the magnetic pole that is not the northernmost point, Lecoq charged students with finding a neutral that was not neutral.

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