BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Eva Szego, M.A., L.P.C. L.M.F.T, ATR-BC, Board Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Professional Couselor. She is from Venezuela. She is currently a trainer in multi-cultural issues for a variety of organizations and is in private practice. Ms. Szego's experience as an Art Therapist, Administrator, Consultant assists in presenting a variety of seminars and trainings with emphasis on multi-cultural issues. She has exhibited her new art work in galleries in Houston and Washington D.C., Mexico, New York.

Julithe Garrett is a Pantomime Actor, Director and Producer. He is from Mexico City, Mexico. He is the owner of Mimashow, a pantomime company. He is not only an accomplished artist, but an educator and trainer. He has utilized his theoretical understanding of pantomime to mobilize communities that were confronting acculturation issues.

Currently, he is the Artistic Director of the Pantomime Troupe for Down Syndrome for the Houston Association.

Our Philosophy

Pantomime and Art are not limited to the knowledge of a particular language. Pantomime combines movement, gestures, expressions that embody primordial memories and archetypes. Drawings convey images, symbols, feelings and thoughts that are universal. Through creative expression we can break barriers and begin healing.

WHAT IS MIME ART?

Mime art is the integration of art and pantomime. It is a creative technique that allows individuals to address problems and fears. Individuals give shape and form to feelings that impede their growth. Mime art encourages an individual to use their creativity to express themselves. It allows the individual to distance themselves from their problems and to see them from a different perspective. In addition, mime art helps one explore myths, stereotypes that interfere with relating to others.

WHAT DO PANTOMIME AND ART HAVE IN COMMON?

Drawings are made up of lines and shapes. Drawings give images to our inner dialogues and our emotions.

Pantomime is the art of telling stories or creating a mood by using the body as a voice with minimal gestures. Pantomime helps convert negative energy into positive energy. Drawings help establish shapes which represent the dark and light side of one's feelings.

WHY MIME ART?

Mime Art uses creative expression to work through problems, traumas, cultural barriers. It can help individuals, families, or groups, to overcome obstacles.

This technique has been used with children who are autistic, have ADHD, cerebral palsy. It has been part of a treatment strategy with sexually abused adolescents. In addition, mime art has been part of a community mobilization with refugees.

WHAT THE MIND BELIEVES, THE BODY MANIFESTS

Allow your creative energy to be a source of healing. Mime art is creative expression that heals.

Evan Hopper, age 11. Definition of Pantomime:

All people are made from God. All human beings can understand each other because they are all made from the same ruler. Pantomime shows how you feel, pantomime shows also what is happening to you and we can all understand each other because we are made from the same God. Pantomime helps us understand each other. Pantomime shows you a way to communicate without using your voice. Pantomime tells you about life and how life is made without using your voice. Pantomime helps us work with our bodies. Pantomime tells us about creation, life and death. Pantomime is an art because you are acting.

LINES TELLS OUR STORY

Brush Mind, Kazuaki Tanahashi, Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1990 ISBN 1-888375-11-6

A line is amazing. A person's hand is the person. If you ask ten people to draw a line, how different each will be. Someone's straight line can be very crooked. Another person's line may not look straight, but is very straight inside.

The quality of the line is what matters most – how deep, strong, or honest it is. It doesn't matter how good or unusual it looks.

You can't hide anything in a line. You are whatever line you draw. And you will stay there, even when you go somewhere else. If your personality is interesting enough, the line will be interesting. To do this, you have to be fearless.