Gilda Mullette has enjoyed a long and successful career in dance, earning a scholarship to the American Ballet Theater in her early teens and studying dance at the Julliard School, the New York City Ballet, and the Royal Ballet in London. Gilda Mullette has performed in ballets and musicals across the world and has also had the opportunity to work with celebrated French mime Marcel Marceau.
Mime can be used extensively in ballet to tell a story. While it rarely makes an appearance in modern ballet, classical ballet has a distinct and sophisticated vocabulary of mime, where particular gestures imbue the performance with precise narrative meanings. Choreographers and ballet dancers often use stylized mime sequences to convey emotions such as love or anger, climactic events such as marriage or promises, or important personages such as the king or queen.
Balletic mime used to be an important part of dance performances in Tsarist Russia and fell out of fashion in the 1950s, coming to be viewed as old-fashioned and even archaic. However, some classic works of ballet that incorporate mime have been preserved or revived by ballet companies such as the Royal Ballet and the American Ballet Theater in the present day. Some ballets make heavy and effective use of mime, including The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.
Mime can be used extensively in ballet to tell a story. While it rarely makes an appearance in modern ballet, classical ballet has a distinct and sophisticated vocabulary of mime, where particular gestures imbue the performance with precise narrative meanings. Choreographers and ballet dancers often use stylized mime sequences to convey emotions such as love or anger, climactic events such as marriage or promises, or important personages such as the king or queen.
Balletic mime used to be an important part of dance performances in Tsarist Russia and fell out of fashion in the 1950s, coming to be viewed as old-fashioned and even archaic. However, some classic works of ballet that incorporate mime have been preserved or revived by ballet companies such as the Royal Ballet and the American Ballet Theater in the present day. Some ballets make heavy and effective use of mime, including The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella.