Samuel Avital
Samuel Ben-Or Avital[1] is a mime artist. He has also taught kinesthetic awareness[2] and Kabbalah.[3]
He was born in Sefrou, near Fez in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.[4] He moved to a kibbutz in Israel when he was fourteen.[5][6] From 1958 he studied dance and drama at the Sorbonne in Paris, and also mime under Étienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau and Jean-Louis Barrault.[3]
He moved to the United States, and in 1971 started a school of mime, Le Centre du Silence, in Boulder, Colorado, where an annual international summer mime workshop was held.[6]
Books
Avital has published books including:[7]
- Le Centre Du Silence Mime Work Book, Venice, California: Wisdom Garden Books, 1975[8] (translated into German as Mimenspiel: die Kunst der Körpersprache, 1985)
- Mime and Beyond: The Silent Outcry, Prescott Valley, Arizona: Hohm Press, 1985
- The Conception Mandala: Creative Techniques for Inviting a Child into Your Life (with Mark Olsen), Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books, 1992
- The Invisible Stairway: Kabbalistic Meditations on The Hebrew Letters, 2016
References
- ^ The Invisible Stairway: Kabbalistic Meditations on The Hebrew Letters, book description
- ^ Evenson, Jane (2001). "The ultimate object: Overcoming self-created obstacles through mime". Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies. 5 (2): 101–109. doi:10.1054/jbmt.2000.0220.
- ^ a b Brown, Larry (December 30, 1983). "Mime's Silent World Enhances Creativity, Increases Honesty". Rocky Mountain News. Denver, CO.
- ^ Gallo, William (September 26, 1971). "Avital, Elfin Apostle of Silence". Rocky Mountain News. Denver, CO.
- ^ Sklarew, Myra. "Space, Silence and Kabbala". The National Jewish Monthly (February 1976).
- ^ a b Nellhaus, Arlynn (November 20, 1985). "Boulder Mime Invites Audience Truly to Get Into the Act". The Denver Post.
- ^ Results page: "Samuel Avital". WorldCat. Accessed June 2022.
- ^ "The Mime Workbook". American Libraries. 9 (3): 178. 1978.