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By Praise In Motion

Mime ministry involves drastic movements, facial expressions, and hand signs to depict God's Word, God's will, life's struggles and accomplishments.

The responsibility of every mime is to bring the word of God to life with great intensity and divine excellence!

The Origins and Development of Mime and Mime Ministry

The language of gestures was born with man and is reborn every day as part of his need to express himself. Before the human voice developed, gestures served not only to communicate but to aid in the development of vocal sounds. Later they were incorporated in the first forms of written language of, for example, the Egyptians, the Aztecs, and in the pictographic writings of the Hebrews. Gestures and expressive movement were also utilized in ancient religious dances and ceremonies. And from the ancient ceremonies in China, Japan, India, and Egypt emerged the actor, who was at once a dancer, singer, and mime.

The following article was excerpted by Annette Lust from her book, From the Greek Mimes to Marcel Marceau and Beyond: Mimes, Actors, Pierrots and Clowns: A Chronicle of the Many Visages of Mime in the Theatre

The Word and Mime

In the Old Testament, Ezekiel was a prophet that was called to announce God's judgment on Israel, and other nations, and to proclaim restoration for God's people. His preaching was not well received by the Jews who were with him in captivity, Chapter 3, so God gave Ezekiel many methods, illustrations and demonstrations to help get the message across to the Jews, Chapter 4,5. Ezekiel acted out most of the methods, and did illustrations for Israel. Israel later became restored again and God renewed the Temple and a New Jerusalem, Chapter 40.

Ministering Mime is interpreting gospel music, using illustrations and non-verbal methods to allow the congregation to understand what you are doing, just like Ezekiel demonstrated in the Old Testament.

For more information about the origins of mime ministry or about Praise In Motion Mime Ministry click here.

Mime Ministry Tips

Tip 1. Pray! Pray! Pray!

Tip 2. Worship! This is an important aspect of mime as it is in any aspect of the Christian life style. When we worship God and meditate on his message and purpose for the transformation of our souls and encouragement in the faith, choreographies themselves become clearer as we receive instructions directly from God as to how we should approach a particular mime.

Tip 3. Worship is more important than techniques. When we worship, God can teach us all of the techniques that we need to know, he can teach us through one day's worship experience what it may take students years to learn at a Ministry training school or University. Techniques are however also important and the combination of worship and techniques is a powerful combination.

Tip 4. Beginners in mime should learn to use actions outside of their regular zone of comfort (our regular expressions).

Tip 5. To be a good mime, you must learn to surpass limited movement and exaggerate your actions to communicate effectively the same way a singer or actor projects their voice to the audience at the back of the auditorium.

Tip 6. Get it together! Get your mime ministry together and work as a team. Remember that there is no "BIG I's and little u's". We all make up a team for one purpose and that is to edify the people of God through glorifying God. If you mime solo get your thoughts together and allow yourself to flow through the Holy Spirit.

Tip 7. God created you uniquely to be you and not like anybody else. As long as you are trying to be like someone else, the best you can ever be is number two!

Applying and Removing Mime Makeup

Grooming

Men:

Make sure you shave before you put on your makeup! If you forget you'll probably only forget once. It's a nightmare trying to outline your face with stubble in the way.

Women/Men:

If you have long hair: Put your hair back! (and leave it back/up for ministering).

Makeup Tip

Go slowly. It's hard to fix mistakes afterwards. Leave yourself (more than) enough time to put on your face. Even after you have put on your face many times you will still want to leave yourself about 30 minutes.

Putting on Your Makeup

1. White base

You can get cake (water based) vs. Clown white (grease based) makeup. Cake may appear streakier than grease makeup. Some cake makeups (Ben Nye or Mehron) are simply pressed powder while others (Kryolan) are glycerin based. Clown white (Kryolan, Mehron) provides a heavy grease base and has talc powder that makes it go on thick. You can also get waterproof clown white (Kryolan). Applying skin moisturizer (not cold cream which is just more grease on your face) before beginning to apply clown white will help the grease makeup to spread easier.

A suggestion is to outline your face (shape) in white and then starting from your nose out to the perimeter. If you choose to have anything than an oval face one suggestion is to put perimeter 'dots' on your face and then to 'connect the dots' with lines before filling in your face. You can do all of this using your fingers, a pencil (see below) or a brush.

Don't go too wide with the outline of your face; otherwise it's very difficult to outline your face with black by yourself. On the other hand you can choose to not have an outline and fill your whole face and have the makeup go right up to your hair.

It is much easier to put the markings over cake makeup than (un powdered) grease makeup. Powdering grease makeup is recommended before putting on black, red or any other markings.

When applying the white base around your mouth it is better to accidentally get some white on your lips than to not go all the way up to your lips. You can always apply lipstick over the white but it is much more difficult to try to fill in gaps with white after you have applied your lipstick.

2. Powder

Once again, not all mimes powder and for those who do there may be times when they decide to not powder.

For the white it is best to use a super white powder (Ben Nye). A cheaper but not as good alternative is (Johnson's) baby powder.

Shake off any excess powder after putting powder on a puff or brush and before touching your face. You can do this by flicking the back of the puff or the end of the brush with your finger(s). If you put too much powder on your makeup will crack.

Powder your face lightly. If you're wearing grease based makeup you will know that you have powdered enough when your face doesn't feel 'sticky'.

3. Markings (Black and Red)

For the black you can use either a paint, pencil or liquid eyeliner. Paints (Kryolan, Mehron) are simply applied with a paint brush. You can get thin or thick grease pencils (Mehron). If you are trying to keep the grease makeup away from your eyes you can use a charcoal pencil (Mehron) for right around your eyes. Charcoal pencils are not recommended for use elsewhere on your face - grease pencils are best. There are also cream based pencils (Ben Nye). Liquid eyeliner (Kryolan, Mehron) is easier to apply over a white grease base than a pencil but it can also run. Pencils tend not to run.

If you smudge you can remove the makeup with a Q-tip and then reapply.

A suggested order for putting on markings is as follows:

A) eyebrows and other markings

B) outline of eyes

C) mascara

D) lipstick

To paint eyebrows on your forehead above your real eyebrows raise your eyebrows and you will see a wrinkle. Paint a line along the wrinkle. (Note: Don't assume that both the wrinkles above both eyes will be level.) It's then from here that you determine the placement, shape, length and boldness of your eyebrows. Painting your real eyebrows is fairly straightforward.

In terms of outlining your eyes, once again it is a trial and error thing. The best way to learn is to do it and to gain from trial and error.

To apply mascara, look away from where you're brushing. If you can't control each of your eyelids hold one eyelid down while doing the other. You can even hold one half of an eyelid while doing the other half. It is important that you purchase water resistant mascara. Do your mascara after you powder (if you do).

For lipstick you should use a primary (or cherry) red or black. Tube lipstick is wax based and has less colour (pigmentation). Red that comes in a container and is applied with a brush has less wax and more colour. There are several methods of putting on lipstick. It is best to experiment and to find the one that you like best. However, be careful to not go beyond the edge of your lips with the lipstick. It will look awkward and is difficult to correct.

You will need a pencil sharpener that is intended for makeup pencils.

4. Powder (see # 2)

Make sure that your black and red markings have dried before powdering. One suggestion is to have one brush or puff for powdering the white base and another brush or puff for this step.

For this step in the powdering stages you will need to use translucent powder (Ben Nye, Kryolan). You can get waterproof powder (Kryolan).

After powdering you should wash off excess powder that is outside the perimeter of your face. This will help your makeup face to stand out and to look more defined and professional.

Removing Makeup

1. For cake (water based makeup) soap and water will work just fine.

2. For clown white (grease based makeup) you can simply use Pond's Cold Cream. You can also purchase makeup remover lotion that is mineral based (Mehron). This type is good for removing makeup around the eyes. You can also get makeup oil (Kryolan, Mehron) (that looks like Vaseline) As a last resort you can use (Johnson's) baby oil or Crisco oil.

3. You can use cotton balls to get makeup off from around the eyes. You can buy cotton squares. Tissues and Q-tips are also good.

4. After you have removed greased based makeup it is best to have an alcohol based stringent handy (Sea Breeze).

Wie sie das schaffte und womit sie die Migränemaske simulierte weiß ich nicht zu sagen.

Sagen kann ich lediglich, dass die obige Kolbenfüllerei sie kurz vorm Zwakkelmannlied zeigt und sie normalerweise ein durch und durch lieblich Wesen ist und auch das Ohr sitzt an der richtigen Stelle ...bei meiner Holden

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I apologize for the spotty postage; I am pretty well occupied all day and when I get moments alone I'm usually spending some quality time with The Couch/various books.

My couch is an object of envy among other members of the residential staff.  It is new and big and blue.

Tonight, the theatre students gave their first show: a series of mime sketches and exercises and (inexplicably) Filipino stick-fighting performed to obnoxiously loud Blue Man Group music (big ups to AV Eddie for figuring out sound).  It was overall a really fascinating performance.

Those of you who know my personal history with mime will be chuckling right about now.  Laugh it up, chumps.  I was screaming inside during rehearsals.  That shit is traumatic.

Personal experience (read: mentally crippling ordeals) aside, I do have some more general problems with mime.  More specifically, I find teaching mime to young aspiring actors to be somewhat problematic.   In mainstream contemporary theatre, most acting theory focuses on revealing and/or internalizing a character's feelings as opposed to indicating them.  For those of you who have trouble visualizing the distinction between the two, imagine any bad high school production you have attended.  An actor who is playing a character in a situation that might provoke anger will think "AH, I'M ANGRY NOW" and the physical result is a lot of screaming and clenched fists. 

Not only is the action that the actor chooses overdone (in his or her defense, a high school drama teacher is likely to push them towards overacting so it will read), it's also not quite as interesting.  In short, it's one-dimensional.  My main problem with mime is that while a lot of the theory we teach at the G-School focuses on breaking the INDICATION CURSE and encouraging actors to discover real moments on stage, the whole mime tradition centers on straight-up indicating.  It's counter-fucking-productive!

On the other hand, I do acknowledge that mime is a) fun to watch, b) helpful for actors who have trouble really getting into their bodies, and c) valuable as a performance style in and of itself.

I suppose, in the end, I'm just happy it's over and I wasn't forced to don one of those creepy neutral masks again.

Hooray!

Frequently Asked Stupid Questions

"The Honor Code is just like guidelines, right?"

"May I go to the bathroom?"

"Do you get paid for this?"

My sole appearance on stage was as a part of a school choir's competition way back in the mid-1950's. I had been told I was a "crow" and I was to move my mouth but to sing silently.

I once worked its back stage as a stage hand, on a panto. Cinderella. There were eight wonderfully white and groomed Samoyed dogs pulling the  sleigh/carriage. Good grief, that would have been in the late 60's!

Front row seats for Roy Dotrice's solo performance as Mister Lincoln in the early 80's.

So many memories.

Built before the days of air conditioning, it had an opening roof and all those doors which lead out onto the balcony were opened on a hot summer's night to allow a breeze through. That roof has recently been restored to working order.

The building, while a place for the performing arts, is an art work in itself.

One of the tragedies of modern city life is the impossibility of standing back to enjoy a streetscape. The only way to capture most of the facade in a single image is to use a very wide angled lens.

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Following a balmy couple of days the clouds once again gathered last night, releasing a deluge on the crowd of group-booking grannies shuffling into Edinburgh's King's Theatre.

The jokes were old and the audience as keen to yell out 'he's behind you,' as ever but this year King's has a new toy in its armoury, contributing to ticket sales which are already well ahead of last year's.

Returning to the stage for their tenth pantomime together local celebrities Allan Stewart and Grant Stott could be forgiven for feeling ever so slightly upstaged by the latest addition.

Dressed as Widow Twankey and the evil Abanazar they regaled a ready audience with their quick witted banter and topical jokes on the Tramworks before assuming the guise of air stewards, instructing the audience to don their 3D glasses as an enormous screen presented a cavalcade of visual effects, taking them through caves, down waterfalls and into an enchanted cavern.

And while both actors fully entered into the spirit of the technological effects, ducking and dodging the boulders which appeared to hurtle into the auditorium, it took a concerted effort to hold their own with the arrival of the 3D genie, voiced by former Play School presenter Derek Griffiths. Indeed, in the closing Q&A session one cheeky audience member demanded how Widow Twankey would step up to the competition.

In an era where panto has become slightly old hat, producer Paul Elliott recognises the need to rejuvenate and modernise the traditional spectacle. Threatening to remove even more of the usual humdrum lines he builds on his 350-strong panto resume to bring Edinburgh a fresh performance experience this Christmas.

Not to be outdone by Lord Lloyd Weber, Elliott today commences his own search for a star, holding open auditions for the part of Princess Jasmine at the Festival Theatre. The lucky winner will then join Stewart, Stott, comedian Johnny Mac and Jo Freer for a frantic two week rehearsal period and what King's hopes will be a ground-breaking run.

The effects are impressive, the actors in fine form. Let's hope they compliment each other well and inject some much needed energy into a tired art form.

Preview by Katie Smyth

Book your ticket now on the King's Theatre website.

We have been to lots of the pantos here in MK , they have always been great fun and usually very polished affairs. Highly recommended family fun. One word of caution though, if you suffer from vertigo avoid the cheapest top row seats, they were the only seats we could get a couple of years ago, boy, was I queasy!

Read the MK News article here!

Peter Pan plays from December 5, 2008, to January 18, 2009, For tickets call now on 0870 060 6652 (bkg fee) or visit www.miltonkeynestheatre.com

Aujourd'hui on a fait un petit gouter surprise pour notre prof de maths. En fait si je marque cette anecdote c'est pas seulement parce que je l'aime bien, parce que j'ai jamais autant aimé les maths qu'avec lui, c'est surtout parce qu'il avait l'air tellement heureux d'une façon toute simple. Il avait l'air juste touché. En ce moment, j'ai perdu un peu l'habitude d'observer les gens, de les voir ému pour des choses d'une banalité extrême. Bien sur je vois tous ces petits couples mais c'est vraiment loin d'être pareil. Là il y avait une sorte d'universalité. En fait c'était un remerciement non attendu, non nécessaire... Et je crois que les surprises c'est ce qui fait le plus plaisir dans la vie. Bonnes ou mauvaises je le sais depuis toujours, c'est ce que j'aime dans la vie, ce qui me fait avancer, ce pourquoi je suis si optimiste, ce pour quoi je souris, toujours...

Sinon je suis prise dans une prépa HEC pas loin de chez moi. C'était mon troisième voeu, je suis sur liste d'attente pour les deux précédents et à vrai dire même si je reste dans ma région je suis satisfaite. Braver l'inconnu me fait autant peur qu'il ne m'appelle. Alors laissons le destin faire ! Le 17 Juin je serais définitivement fixé sur mon orientation.

Autant que les trois premières lettres de l'alphabet, ce mot m'obsède, me fait peur, me fascine. J'ai toujours envié ceux qui veulent devenir pompier depuis qu'ils sont bébés.

Everyone seems to love Dave though, especially the women. It’s a wonder the guy never settled down and got married to a nice young lady. But he says he loves being “a swinging bachelor”.

For some reason, he made a joke out of that. I don’t know why.

Speaking of confused, I was as confused as a baby at a topless bar when we had a guest on who looked the spitting image of Biddy from Glenroe. For those that don’t know, Glenroe was a documentary broadcast in the 1990’s about the life of a farming community.

I always thought it was cruel that when Biddy crashed her car into a tractor and died that the camera crew didn’t go and help her. But I guess they didn’t for authenticity and that.

So this look-alike and some other women were on the show promoting how they were appearing in The Vagina Monologues. I haven’t been to see it yet, but I imagine it involves some impressive ventriloquist skills.

It’s great that there are so many artistic plays and thing like that in Ireland. I wish I could get up on stage and act in a play again. But I’ve been blacklisted since my last theatre show was such a complete disaster.

It was last December when I was performing my stage show in the Olympia Theatre in Dublin. A one-man musical version of Pulp Fiction. Unfortunately, the theatre was double booked. And nobody told me.

Which led to the sight of me, covered in shoe polish and shouting, "English Motherfucker, do you speak it?" like Samuel Jackson.

During the ballroom scene of a pantomime version of Cinderella.

The poor kids didn’t know what to make of it. Especially during the scene with the gimp.