swap_horiz Eugenio Barba Alternatives

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Dario Fo

Dario Fo was a prominent Italian figure recognized as a mime artist, playwright, and director. His work gained internati...

Italian Theater 20TH Century Political

9.2 Excellent

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Michael Moschen

Michael Moschen is an American contemporary mime known for his groundbreaking approach to stage performance. He develope...

Stage American Contemporary Kinetic Sculpture

8.9 Great

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Simon McBurney

Simon McBurney is a British stage performer and director recognized for his innovative work in physical theater. He co-e...

Stage Contemporary British Physical Theater

8.9 Great

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Philippe Gaulier

Philippe Gaulier is a French theater teacher and clown who studied under Jacques Lecoq and founded the École Philippe Ga...

Teacher French Contemporary Clown

8.7 Great

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Peter Schumann

German-American puppeteer who founded Bread and Puppet Theater in New York City in 1963, known for large-scale political...

Contemporary Political Puppetry German American

8.7 Great

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Paolo Nani

Paolo Nani is an Italian mime and physical theater performer internationally recognized for his one-man show The Letter,...

Italian Stage Danish Visual

8.5 Great

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Bernie Schürch

Swiss mime and co-founder of Mummenschanz (1972) alongside Floriana Frassetto and Andres Bossard, known for wordless, ab...

Swiss Contemporary Mask Ensemble

8.5 Great

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Floriana Frassetto

Italian-born co-founder of the Swiss mime company Mummenschanz (1972), celebrated for its abstract, wordless performance...

Swiss Contemporary Mask Ensemble

8.5 Great

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Gilles Ste-Croix

Canadian circus artist and co-founder of Cirque du Soleil (1984), originally a stilt-walker whose street performances in...

Contemporary Canadian Founder Circus

8.5 Great

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Ennio Marchetto

An Italian performer internationally renowned for a one-man show featuring rapid transformations using paper costumes th...

Italian Stage Paper Costume

8.3 Great

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Avner Eisenberg (Avner the Eccentric)

American physical comedian known as Avner the Eccentric, who appeared in the 1985 film 'The Jewel of the Nile' and creat...

Stage American Contemporary Solo

8.3 Great

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Radim Vizvary

Radim Vizvary is a Czech mime and physical theater artist working within the strong Central European tradition of mime t...

Stage Contemporary Solo Czech

8.2 Great

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Dimitri (Dimitri Müller)

Swiss clown and mime (1935–2019) celebrated for blending circus skills, music, and silent comedy across a performance ca...

Swiss Stage Contemporary Circus

8.2 Great

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Gilles Maheu

Canadian theater director and mime who founded Montreal's Carbone 14 company in 1981, pioneering a visceral, image-based...

Stage Contemporary Canadian Ensemble

8.2 Great

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David Glass

British director who founded the David Glass Ensemble in 1988, creating visually striking physical theatre works often d...

Stage Contemporary British Ensemble

7.8 Good

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Monika Pagneux

Monika Pagneux is a French physical theater teacher and collaborator of both Peter Brook and Jacques Lecoq, whose moveme...

Teacher French Contemporary Movement

7.6 Good

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Yves Lebreton

Yves Lebreton is a French corporeal mime artist and teacher trained directly by Étienne Decroux, known internationally f...

Teacher Stage French Contemporary

7.4 Good

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Ronlin Foreman

American mime and physical theatre performer long associated with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, later teaching physical...

Teacher Stage American Contemporary

6.9 Fair

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Desmond Jones

British mime teacher who established the Desmond Jones School of Mime and Physical Theatre in London, training generatio...

Teacher Contemporary School British

6.8 Fair

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Jon Davison

British clown and physical theatre educator trained in the Lecoq tradition, known for academic writing on clown and buff...

Teacher Contemporary British Clown

6.4 Fair