WORKSHOP: Identifying with the Elements

Part of the magic of mime is the mime actor’s ability to make an invisible world visible through illusion. Legendary mime master Marcel Marceau taught that in order to do this, the mime must identify themself with the physical elements of their environment.

In this workshop, students will use Marceau's techniques to explore the Four Elements — Earth, Air, Fire, and Water — and will discover how to use each element's unique qualities to make visible not only an invisible world around themselves, but also the invisible world within themselves.

Students should come prepared to take part in physical technique exercises and improvisations.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:

A founding member of the LA Mime Festival, actor, teacher, and movement coach LORIN ERIC SALM was a student of the legendary master of mime Marcel Marceau and is a graduate of Marceau's Paris International School of Mimodrama. Since 2001, Lorin's own school, Mime Theatre Studio, has been a consistent home for Los Angeles mime workshops and classes. Actors, dancers, and a wide variety of other performers have come to learn both about mime as an autonomous art form and how mime skills can enhance their work in other performing arts. In recent years, Mime Theatre Studio has expanded beyond in-person classes to offer online instruction to students across North America and around the world in 19 countries and counting.Lorin has used mime techniques to enhance the art of animation, teaching his Character Movement for Animation workshops at leading studios including Disney, DreamWorks, and Sony Imageworks, and teaching student animators at Australia's Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. Since 2006, he has been a guest movement instructor for the artists of Cirque du Soleil's resident Las Vegas shows and touring shows, and he recently coached and created stage movement for members of Grammy Award-winning rock band Weezer.As a mime coach and movement coach, Lorin is called upon by major Hollywood film and TV productions to create movement and to coach talent, including Academy Award nominee Jesse Eisenberg, Cole Sprouse, and Emmy Award nominees Riley Keough and Damon Wayans. Lorin coached Sprouse for the 2024 film Lisa Frankenstein and coached Eisenberg for both the 2024 film Sasquatch Sunset and the 2020 film Resistance, in which Eisenberg played a young Marcel Marceau. Lorin also created Eisenberg's mime choreography for the film.Lorin has been a guest instructor or lecturer at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), UCLA, and Ohio State University, where he also received a visiting scholar research award to conduct research in the OSU Libraries' Marcel Marceau American Collection archive. In 1996, Lorin created the Internet's first website about the art of mime, The World of Mime Theatre, to promote international appreciation for the art.https://movement-coach.com/ | https://mimetheatrestudio.com/ | https://www.instagram.com/movementmime

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