Both Mr. Corella and Ms. Tuttle combined mime and dancing with exciting clarity and musicality.
"THE SECRETS OF SURVIVAL," a show that combines mime, gymnastics and music, Sundays and Mondays at 8 p.m. through Aug. 26 at the SoHo Playhouse, 15 Vandam Street.
There, Teirlinck introduced the concept of total theatre, combining dance, mime, music, cinematic effects, and echoes of medieval miracle plays.
Noh theatre, which combines song, mime and masque, first appeared in the 14th century, driven by the actor Yusaki Kiyotsugu Kan'ami and his son Motokiyo Zeami.
The duo's bio says they joined forces to realize their vision of "combining old classic mime techniques and commedia del arte with impressions from movies, video games, cartoons, and all the other stuff from the international entertainment industry".
The adults speak pidgin English combined with miming, while Ms. Smith, like a charades player, teases out what they are trying to say.
Mimetic scenes derived from the mythology of Vishnu are still sometimes enacted by the Bengali jatras, folk pageants combining words and conventionalized mime, and the rasas, folk dance-dramas.
Combining music, dance, poetry, mime, burlesque, magic and theatre, the show was co-ordinated by the 20-year-old Bush with Anthony Van Laast – who later choreographed the Mamma Mia! movie and several West End hits – and two young dancers, Stewart Avon Arnold and Gary Hurst.
Mr. Hakoshima's mime combines Japanese and Western styles with a hint of modern dance.
