Mimecentrum Berlin www.mimecentrum.de
THE research place for mimes in Berlin. The Mimecentrum offers a vast video- and mediathek on mime, danse and physical theater.
Also the Mimecentrum offers a daily movement-training (Mon-Fri, 9:30 - 11:00, €7 / €18 for 5 times in a row). Oliver teaches this sometimes.
Wikipedia
has some information on corporeal mime and Etienne Decroux.
Interviews
with me on corporeal mime can be found here (in English) and here (in German).
www - Text
here on www.petermim.de is a short excerpt on Etienne Decroux (in German) and here on iseri.de some information on corporeal mime (also in German).
here you'll find a glossary on terms used in our Atelier, many of them mime corporel terms. For insiders only. And for now in German only.
Literature
most notably there is Etienne Decroux writing himself about his artform in ‘Paroles sur le Mime’, engl: ‘Words on Mime’.
The ‘Mime Journal’ publishes some excellent articles on Decroux and corporeal mime.
Marie-Luise Anger's ‘Geometrie der Bewegung’ offers a kind of dictionary into the terminology of corporeal mime (in German).
Franz Anton Cramer's ‘Der unmögliche Körper’ is a quite critical, nontheless good read (in German).
Video
find many vidoes of production of Atelier des Mimes here ->.
for example, here a 1 hour lecture on 'mime corporel' given by Oliver
here is ‘horizontal’, a 10-min solo of Oliver Pollak based upon a choreography of Etienne Decroux and in the first part adopting his style of corporeal mime.
here a German documentary on mime corporel, old-style, only showing the technical aspects, nonetheless informative.
a youtube-query on ‘mime corporel’ will reveal quite a lot of videos. Not all of them can be very representative.
also a youtube-query on ‘Etienne Decroux’ will list some videos. It has to be said though, that mime corporel has evolved quite drastically from the old times.
The ‘White Church Theatre Project’ in the USA is led by Corinne Soum and Steven Wasson. These two have been the last assistants of Etienne Decroux. Beforehand they had the ‘école de mime corporel dramatique London’, THE place in Europe to study corporeal mime intensively.
The ‘MimeCenter Köln’, led by Nicoletta Dahlke offers the first 3-year-full-time education in corporeal mime in Germany.
In Barcelona you have ‘Moveo’, a long-established full-time school in corporeal mime led by Stéphane Levy and Sophie Kasser.
In Paris there is ‘International School of Dramatique Corporeal Mime’ led by Ivan Bacciocchi.
All the named above and me - Oliver Pollak, we all have learned from Steven Wasson and Corinne Soum, and in part have been long-time assistants of them.
'la caminada Berlin'
dance studio & location of Atelier des Mimes
LISPA - London International School of Performing Arts
'Mimecentrum Berlin'
'plattform-plateform'
franco-german physical theatre exchanges
'die Etage Berlin'
full time formation in mime/pantomime
