Introducing
Your new presentation assistant.
Refine, enhance, and tailor your content, source relevant images, and edit visuals quicker than ever before.
Trending searches
Pantomimus in ancient roman drama
4
Favorite Shows
-many performances inspired from Homer and Virgil
-mythical
-adultery
- Hephaestus and the adultery of Aphrodite and Ares
Christianity and Pantomimus
'I hear your play, I do not merely see it; you seem to talk with your hands"
-Cynic Philosopher
-Strongly opposed by the church
-typically mocked both pagen gods and the Christian God
-many sexual movements that conveyed lust/homosexuality/adultery
PANTOMIMUS:
Where does it come from?
- "imitator of all"
- Popular during Augustus (63 BC-14 AD)
- Pantomimus- Pantomime - mime
- does not imply silence but implies that one actor plays every part
-dancing resembles modern day Ballet
-raised boots
-artists like Picasso and Stravinsky inspired by masks
-Mimes today: Mockery, Satire, no masks
Pantomimes: all gestures, covers Tragedy, comedy, and drama
-masks with large eyes
-typically wore dark cloaks, tunics, leotards
-A Silent dancer using rhythmic movement and masks to convey characters
-moved audiences with motion and their own imaginations
-Pantomime's "commedia" inspired Shakespearean play writes
What are they?
-accompanied by music or a chorus
- spread throughout Europe through traveling actors