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:''For the politician, see Shmuel Avital.'' Samuel Ben-Or Avital is a professionally trained mime artist, teacher of mime, kinesthetic awareness, and Kabbalah. Born In Morocco, Avital later traveled to Paris where he studied with the French masters of mime, Etienne Decroux, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Marcel Marceau. Avital has performed in New York with the Pantomime Theater of New York, off-Broadway, and has toured North and South America. At the present Avital teaches Kabbalah in Colorado in the United States although he is best known as a mime. ==History== Samuel Avital was born Shmuel Abitbol in 1932,〔Avital, Samuel Ben-Or. ''The Invisible Stairway: Kabbalistic Meditations on the Hebrew Letters.'' Boulder: Kol-Emeth Publishers, 2003: 258-260.〕 in the small town of Sefrou,〔Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, Sunday, September 26, 1971, "Avital, Elfin Apostle of Silence" by William Gallo〕 near Fez, in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. At the age of 14, Avital left his home in Sefrou to travel (via Algiers and France) to the newly established state of Israel.〔The National Jewish Monthly, February 1976, "Space, Silence and Kabbala" by Myra Sklarew〕 There he spent the next ten years living in a ''kibbutz'' and studying physics, agronomy, theology, and theatre.〔The Denver Post, Denver, CO, Wednesday, November 20, 1985, "Boulder Mime Invites Audience Truly to Get Into the Act" by Arlynn Nellhaus〕 In 1958, he traveled to Paris, France, to study dance and drama at the Sorbonne, as well as to study mime with the French masters, Etienne Decroux, Jean-Louis Barrault, and Marcel Marceau.〔Rocky Mountain News, Denver, CO, Friday, December 30, 1983, "Mime’s Silent World Enhances Creativity, Increases Honesty" by Larry Brown〕 Avital later performed with the Compagnie de Mime under the direction of Decroux' son, Maximilien Decroux.〔Avital, Samuel. "Mime and Beyond: The Silent Outcry" Prescott Valley, AZ: HOHM Press, 1985: 171〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Pantomime Samuel Avital )〕 In 1964, Avital joined his friend (and a fellow student of Etienne Decroux), Moni Yakim, in New York, performing with him in his Pantomime Theatre of New York. At the same time, he also performed off-Broadway, and later began to tour throughout North and South America.〔Avital, Samuel. "Mime and Beyond: The Silent Outcry" Prescott Valley, AZ: HOHM Press, 1985: 172.〕 In 1969, in was invited to teach in the Theater Department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. In 1971, he moved to Boulder, Colorado and founded Le Centre Du Silence Mime School, which has held an annual International Summer Mime Workshop ever since.〔 As an extension of this work, Avital has also developed a unique method of bodywork called, BodySpeak, for cultivating kinesthetic awareness.〔Avital, Samuel. ''The BodySpeak Manual: Moving Mind and Body.'' Boulder: 1st Books Library, 2001.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samuel Avital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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