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Choreography for Mime: Making a Sculpture, 2009

Choreography for Mime: Making a Sculpture, 2009
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34:08 minutes
Location: The 1896 Studio, Bushwick Brooklyn, NY
Directed by: David Schafer
Mime: Douglas Allen
Mime Director: Janet Carafa
Videographer: Jay King
Assistant: Amanda Mauer

In Choreography for Mime, a mime is performing a series of actions that mimic the process of making a small abstract metal sculpture. Arriving at his studio, the sculptor prepares to make a new work and in the process experiences a range of emotion from contemplative, inspired, depressed, and elated.