Mime also had heydays during the Renaissance and with Jean Gaspard Deburau’s early 19th century clown character, Pierrot. As the 20th century’s keeper of the art form, Marceau turned to his ...

Though Manet alludes directly to Watteau, by the mid-19th century Pierrot had gained new status thanks to the work of Jean-Gaspard (“Baptiste”) Deburau, a spectacular mime and acrobatic artist ...

One of the most iconic characters of this tradition, Pierrot, became a symbol of mime, inspiring generations of silent ...

l’histoire du mime Jean-Gaspard Deburau (1796-1846, ici campé par Jean-Louis Barrault), qui interpréta à de nombreuses reprises triste Pierrot, un acteur muet et immobile moqué par les ...

Then they could only mime. Finally, they were forced to resort ... remarkable sense of undulating rhythm across the canvas. Only Pierrot doesn’t move. He is, as the art historian Pierre ...

From a poem by Antonin Artaud to the pantomimes of Pierrot, between Paris and London, this enchanting suite of musical drifts composes words and faces, beings and places.

The nonprofit Guarneri Hall will present Pierrot Unmasked, a concert series exploring the poetic and theatrical context of Arnold Schoenberg’s seminal melodrama, Pierrot lunaire. On December ...