Youngsters learning the basics of theatre industry were acquainted with the mime techniques.
The mime expert of theatre Manoj Nair interacted with the theatre students and highlighted over the mime techniques used in theatres. The session was held here on Monday.
The session was held during a theatre workshop being organized by Shadow Theatre Group, Bhopal.
Notably, this was a different experience for the youngsters as mime is all about expressions and body language. “To learn dialogues is pretty easy but to learn the expressions with body language and performing it on stage correctly is a big challenge. And this what the students learnt in this workshop,” said Nair.
Mime is a theatrical presentation that is performed through only expressions of the face. Further a mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance art, involving miming, or the acting out a story through body motions, without use of speech, he added.
Notably, the youngsters are learning the fundamentals of acting and other aspects of theatre presentation. How the drama is scripted, how the concept is selected, how it has to be presented and what major things have to be kept in mind while presenting a play is being taught to the youngsters.
Also the participants of the workshop are learning the other forms of stage arts like dance and music including the stage craft as well. The workshop majorly focuses on acting techniques, body language, observational kills, voice modulation, diction and speech. This will provide a unique knowledge practice based techniques, which is very important to acquire in this career. All kind of genres like tragedy, comedy, drama and horror are being taught.