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Article: Images At the Edge Of Mime; Daniel Stein's Silent Theater of Suggestion
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- The Washington Post
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- February 13, 1989
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Daniel Stein describes himself as a "moveician," that is, one who
employs movement as a musician does music. The term also conjures
"magician," and this seems an even more apt description of Stein, who
presented his "Timepiece" Friday night at the Smithsonian's Baird
Auditorium.
Categorization is difficult with Stein. He shies from the term
"mime" because of its association with the manipulation of imaginary
objects and storytelling in white face. And, in fact, this
conception of mime has little to do with Stein's work. Originally
trained as an actor and director at Carnegie-Mellon University, Stein
became a disciple of New Mime guru Etienne Decroux, from whom he
learned that the essence ...