Shake your head and entire body from the effort.ĭriving a car: Open the car door and go inside. Swim around the room.Īct like an old man: Walk bent and pretend to use a cane.

With both hands bent to the sides, rotate your fingers back and forth like fish fins. You can climb back up the stairs if you want.Īct like a fish: Make your mouth small, as if you are shrinking for a kiss. It’s fun to do this mime act behind a couch or any other object that blocks the audience from seeing your feet. The stairs: Pretend you are walking down a staircase by kneeling down gradually while moving forward. Now it’s time to go down – bend your knees and lower yourself as if you are riding the elevator. Press the inner elevator button and choose a floor. After waiting for it to arrive, enter it and turn around. Grab it with both hands and pull yourself with it slowly.Įlevator ride: Turn your back to the audience and press the imaginary elevator button. Pretend an imaginary rope is hanging from side to side in front of you. Invisible rope: We love this mime act so much that we actually named this website after it. to top it off, you can fall in the water. Or, if the water is calm, you can just go around in circles. When the current push your canoe backward, try desperately to paddle the boat against the strong current. Stand facing sideways from the audience and paddle. Rowing a canoe: Pretend you are rowing in a canoe with a paddle. You can open the lid and jump out of the box, or push the walls of the box to break free. Harden your hand as you hit the side of the imaginary box.

Trapped in a box: Maybe the most popular mime act idea, in this act you can pat the air around you from four sides as if you were stuck inside a box. Read below for some ideas of mime acts you can perform. And beyond all these benefits, imagination and pantomime games are just fun! Studies have shown that children who played with the responsible adult in imaginative games gained higher abilities in readiness and social integration compared to the control group in which the game was not performed. In a famous study conducted on the subject, the research team conducted “pretending games” with the children. Most scientific literature supports the claim that imaginative games can be used to prepare young children for entry into school, and for life in general. This art began as early as ancient Greece, became popular in the age of silent films, and culminated with the famous French entertainer Marcel Marceau and his legendary character “Beep the Clown”.īut now it has been scientifically proven: Mime games are important for children’s development, and have been proven to contribute to academic success. Mime is a technique that presents action or emotion without words by using only gesture, expression, and movement. Here are some mime act ideas for beginners, children, and basically anyone who wishes to improve his/her mime skills.

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