Samuel Avital is a
mime artist. He has also taught
kinesthetic awareness and
Kabbalah.
He was born in
Sefrou, near
Fez
Fez most often refers to:
* Fez (hat), a type of felt hat commonly worn in the Ottoman Empire
* Fez, Morocco (or Fes), the second largest city of Morocco
Fez or FEZ may also refer to:
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* ''Fez'' (Frank Stella), a 1964 painting by the moder ...
in the
Atlas Mountains
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in Morocco. He moved to a ''
kibbutz
A kibbutz ( he, קִבּוּץ / , lit. "gathering, clustering"; plural: kibbutzim / ) is an intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The first kibbutz, established in 1909, was Degania. Today, farming h ...
'' in Israel when he was fourteen. From 1958 he studied dance and drama at the
Sorbonne in Paris, and also
mime under
Étienne Decroux,
Marcel Marceau and
Jean-Louis Barrault.
He moved to the United States, and in 1971 started a school of mime,
Le Centre du Silence, in
Boulder, Colorado
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, where an annual international summer mime workshop was held.
Books
Avital has published books including:
* ''Le Centre Du Silence Mime Work Book'', Venice, California: Wisdom Garden Books, 1975 (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
References
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1932 births
Living people
University of Paris alumni
Moroccan Jews
Southern Methodist University faculty
Kabbalists
French mimes
Jewish mimes
Moroccan mimes
Moroccan expatriates in France
Moroccan expatriates in the United States
Moroccan expatriates in Israel