HOW TO MIME A WALK 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.

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[docesjr]

yea well the moonwalk was created by Marcel Marceau, who was a very famous french mime. atleast it is to my knowledge

[michaelmenes]

Yes. Tony gives credit to Marceau (who he studied under) as well as Etienne Decroix (Marceau's teacher) on the DVD course. This is no way detracts from the value of Tony's excellent teaching or Tony's accomplishments as a mime.

[Sky6053]

waw gd gd but i gota practice more on that

tnx God Bless

[ferchumimo]

tony... me gustaría adquirir tu libro, como hago??????????

[lajko666]

Is he the one who teached Jackson his moonwalk?

[Wgryzka]

I wonder, will I be able to do mime walk in high heels? Has somebody tried?

[OrlyDudeGuy]

@docesjr Marcel Marcaeu used moonwalking in the 40s and later on in his career. A jazz musician named Cab Calloway did a similar step to the moonwalk in the 30s. You can't really tell where these things are coming from, people way back then came up with stuff from different areas that you can't really tell for sure who originated something or where something originated. Search Cab Calloway.

[rhocinelewis]

i love fot you to train me

[oriongonzalesz]

@docesjr marcel was not the 1 who created it it was bill baily

[Souran123]

The Airwalk! =]

[buffbuddha]

Amazing. This is going on my shopping list.

[dismissed7]

OKAY! people please! the Moonwalk was a break dancing/pop and lock move It actually was called the backslide. THIS is what they would call the airwalk which is the one Michael does in place and Mj would do a robotic version of this at times too. THIS is NOT Mj's moonwalk as we know it because you remain stationary and yes he did work with Marcel to make ALL of his dance moves look lighter! Mj intertwined everything which is why he was such a genius. My God stop arguing about this! Geez!!!