Elementary

Effective mime includes:

  • Clearly established and consistently maintained boundaries within the setting (entrance, exit, placement of furniture)
  • Gestures that are specific and reflect the unique shape, weight and features of the object being interacted with
  • Gestures that are chosen help to highlight key ideas that connect to story/help audience to make sense of events
  • Facial expressions used to complement/inform gesture to support meaning

Secondary

An effective mime presentation may include:

  • Clear story elements (beginning, middle, end, conflict, climax, conflict resolution)
  • Clear characters and actions maintained throughout the story
  • Precise physical and eye movements
  • Consistent points of contact and invisible object placement
  • Bodily reactions to illusionary objects (i.e., responding to the weight, shape, size, tension, texture/temperature) and the forces they exert
  • Emotional reactions to illusionary objects (i.e., over-exaggerated facial expressions and emotion)