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    The Side Show Analysis

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    the meaning behind it at first. I knew the mime riding on the donkey was supposed to depict Jesus, but I did not understand what the mime was doing in each of the episodes. The episode where the mime helps the Roustabout carry the buckets of water up the hill to the elephants was confusing to me. The dunk tank scene was also very confusing to me, as well as the side show and the puppets. The only scenes I understood from the beginning was when the mime was hung in the harness and when Magnus disguised

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    Acting Without Words

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    creating a physical theatre piece the best way to begin is without the voice and instead tell your stories with the body alone. To do this we turned to mime ‘American mime actors perform symbolic actions and express the feelings of their characters honestly through motivated movements they call form’ (Poetry of motion!, 2011) While working with this type of mime in rehearsals it is important to remember to not only convey what you’re are trying to say or story you are trying

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    Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Conqueror Worm describes a play depicting human life. The audience to this dreary play is the angels that watch over the Earth from their heavenly theatre. Poe reveals to his audience that death is not a villain, but a savior through his use of figurative language and tone. This theme is brought up in many of his other works as well. His entire life Poe was encompassed by the deaths of his loved ones which is why he had a fixation on the subject in his literature. Many

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    High School Speech Team

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    rating from the judges in order to advance to State. The groups that made it to State include “Spring Awakening” - musical theater, “Legally Blonde” - musical theater, “KGHD” - radio, “Peng” - short film, “Pay It Forward” - group mime, “Price of Freedom” - group mime, “Kelly” - group improv, “Norby” - group improv, “Hettle” group improv, “10,000 Cigarettes” - ensemble acting, “Scary Questions” - ensemble acting, “Oreos and Noserings” - ensemble acting, “Lund” - TV news and “I Don’t Want to Talk

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    New Robotic Technologies

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    Two New Robotic Technologies Introduction A century ago, science fiction writers predicted a world filled with sophisticated robots that were humankind's servants, performing all of the world's mundane and labor-intensive chores. Although that eventuality has not yet been realized, the current trends in robotics technologies indicate that such a world is not far-fetched, but is rather the reality that is going to emerge in the near future. In the meantime, robotic technologies continue to be

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    Conqueror Worm Theme

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    “The Conqueror Worm”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, has the theme of the point of life is to die, and it has the mood of pointlessness. The first example of the theme is when the poem says, “The mimes become its food.” By becoming food for the worm, Edgar Allan Poe is showing the death that comes to everybody. When people are buried, they basically become food for the worms as that is all that dead bodies are good for. All of the beauty of the play ends up becoming pointless because at the end, all

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    Bernard Bragg Bernard Bragg is an American actor, producer and director; This is just to name a few of his many talents. He was born on September 27, 1928, in Brooklyn New York. Bragg was born deaf to deaf parent who tough him sign language as a form. From an early age Bragg show interest in theater, since his father Wolf Bragg was an actor and also, he managed plays. From his early years Bragg demonstrated talent as early as High School where he perform and helped with preparations of the play.

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    Swan Lake: Ballet

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    “Swan Lake” is ballet that started in 1800. “Swan Lake” explains the love two characters that would not normally be together. During “Swan Lake”, these characters are put to test to see if they are real for each other. “ Swan Lake” uses movement, mime, pantomime, and mise-en-scene to illustrate the meaning of ballet. In “Swan Lake” uses different styles of dance and mixes the different styles together to add to the ballet dance. “Swan Lake” tells the story of the pressure of getting married and

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    performance which all describe themselves using the term "physical theatre", which has led to a lot of confusion as to what the definition of physical theatre actually is. The term physical theatre has been applied to performances consisting mainly of mime, contemporary dance, theatrical clowning and other physical comedy (such as slapstick), puppetry and mask work and theatrical acrobatics and lifts. One of the early practitioners of physical theatre was Artaud. His ideas included total theatre, wherein

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    When you look at the brick that is The Mime Order, you’re bound to be intimidated. Intimidation festers into stress which then turns into my favourite pastime—feigning ignorance. AKA pretending that it doesn’t exists until the very last second, further perpetuating stress levels and ensuring bounteous hair loss (how I still have hair is beyond me. My babies fall out like I’m a shitzu and it’s shedding season come early.) Against all odds (or perhaps not, I’ve been known to look past info dumping)

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