Insight: Ballet glossary - mime
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Uploaded by RoyalOperaHouse on Feb 25, 2011
Royal Ballet First Artists Romany Pajdak and Erico Montes demonstrate Odette's mime from Swan Lake.
Mime is the use of gesture to convey narrative meaning. Classical ballet has a distinct language of mime where specific gestures convey precise meanings such as love, marriage, king, queen, etc. Highly stylized mime sequences are often used to spell out particular moments in the story, and to offer a vital change of pace between set pieces. Early theatre also used a complex language of mime, and early audiences would have been much more familiar with this silent language than today's ballet goers.
Read more: http://www.roh.org.uk/discover/ballet/glossary.aspx
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she's got some biceps for a ballerina! XD
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@c5869y Hmmm...u might wanna search a little bit more....
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I love this! I keep searching for things like this because I want to understand the mime! And even though I dont understand I still thing it's beautiful.. I dont know why some think the mime should be removed!
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ohh I want to do this mime someday *-*
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That's beautiful! Too bad they don't pay people to translate during performances! ^_^
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good to see that at least the UK still use mime in their ballet productions.
6 months ago 2
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this is fantastic.
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Beautiful
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Its so nice to see the Royal ballet putting things on You Tube, thank you - well done.
Other main companies & schools (Bolshoi, Paris Opera, Kirov etc) seem to put out far more.
Clips like this are good for the image of the Royal Ballet
c5869y 9 months ago 13
Lovely! One of my favourite parts from Swan Lake.
theamazingsoter 7 months ago 5