Mime         To tell a story effectively without words is a very hard thing to do. One performer who excels in this category of story telling is the Mime. Also called Pantomime, it is the art of narration and expression through exaggerated body movement.         Some argue that mime really started with early man. "He must underline and dramatize his gutteral sounds by inventing hand signals and gestures, by adopting physical attitudes, by imitating animals and inanimate …showed first 75 words of 1216 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1216 total…lion."6         To really appreciate a mime's job you have to put your self in their place. Not such that you have to don make-up and perform, but you must do your job with out words only actions and expressions. Try going a day with only actions to get you what you want. Imagine a doctor acting out what instruments he wanted to use. A mime is not appreciated until you can perform in their shoes.