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Samuel Avital
Mime artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Samuel Ben-Or Avital[1] is a mime artist. He has also taught kinesthetic awareness[2] and Kabbalah.[3]
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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]
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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
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