UMS Concert Program, October 16, 1971: Marcel Marceau And His Partner Pierre Verry --

Concert: Second
Complete Series: 3735
Power Center For The Performing Arts, Ann Arbor, Michigan

The University Musical Society
The University of Michigan
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Presents
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Opening the Inaugural Series in the Power Center for the Performing Arts
MARCEL MARCEAU
and his partner
PIERRE VERRY
Saturday Afternoon, October 16, 1971, at 3:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
Mr. Marceau will select his program from the following repertoire:
STYLE PANTOMIMES
The Kite
The Man and His Boat
The Magician
The Cage
Circus Performer
The Dream
The Hands
The Painter
Creation of the World
Walking Against the Wind
The Staircase
The Tight Rope Walker
The Sculptor
The Public Garden
The Mask Maker
Youth, Maturity, Old Age and Death
The Four Seasons
The Park
The Bill Poster
Contrasts
The Trial
Remembrances
BIP PANTOMIMES
BIP as a Concert Performer BIP as a Matador BIP dreams he is Don Juan BIP goes traveling BIP in the Subway BIP as a Baby Sitter BIP as a Violin Virtuoso BIP at a Society Party BIP commits Suicide BIP as a Lion Tamer
BIP as a Painter
BIP takes an Ocean Voyage
BIP hunts Butterflies
BIP plays David and Goliath
BIP, the Street Musician
BIP as a Fireman
BIP looks for a Job
BIP as a Professor of Botany
BIP in the Modern and Future Life
Presentation of Cards Pierre Verry
Staff for Marcel Marceau
Administrative Director Alain Mangel
Stage Manager Antoine Casanova
Second Program International Presentations in Power Center Complete Programs 3735
MARCEL MARCEAU
Marcel Marceau--the world's greatest living exponent of the Art of Mime--was born in Strasbourg, France. In 1946 he enrolled as a student at Charles Dullin's School of Dramatic Art in the Sarah Bernhardt Theatre in Paris where he studied with the great master Etienne Decroux. Soon the already successful JeanLouis Barrault made him a member of his Com?pany, and cast him in the role of Arlequin in the pantomime entitled "Baptiste," which won him such acclaim that he was encouraged to present his first "mimodrama," entitled "Praxitele and the Golden Fish."
As a style pantomimist, Marceau has been acknowledged without peer. In 1947 Marceau created "Bip," the clown who has become his alterego. In 1949, following his winning the previous year of the Deburau Prize, Marceau formed his Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau--the only company of pantomimists in the world. In 19S2 he made his initial television appearance via the BBC, and during the next three years made four tours of Europe. His first tour of the United States was in 19S5S6, following his North American debut at the Stratford (Ontario) Festival. Marceau has, in addition to his regular seasons at the Ambigu and his appearances in the European capitals, toured extensively in Latin America, the Far East, Israel, Australia, Greece, Russia, Scandinavia, Thailand, and Ceylon.
Marceau's art has become familiar to millions of Americans through television. His versatility was proven in his latest motion picture, First Class, in which he assumes seventeen different roles. He recently created for the Ballet Company of the Hamburg Opera a mimo?drama entitled "Candide." Marceau directed this work and portrayed the title role. The French Government recently awarded Marceau one of their highest honors when they made him a Chevalier de la legion d'honneur."
PIERRE VERRY
Pierre Verry joined the Compagnie de Mime Marcel Marceau in 1951 and has, since that period, appeared in major roles in each of the mimodramas produced annually. He has accompanied Marceau on nearly every world tour. For the past few years, however, he has often remained in Paris, heading Marceau's International School of Mime.
"Mime is as ancient as civilization, and yet is one of the least practiced and most difficult of dramatic forms. It has always had its interpreters, but since the days of the pantomimists of the Commedia dell'Arte, and later, the great 19th century French mime, Deburau, there have been few who have devoted themselves exclusively to its study and performance. It has been employed as an adjunct, more or less, to the arts of acting and dance. Great ballet dancers must know the Art of Mime to round out those areas of silence which occur in every play or every ballet that has a story. Mime is a universal art."
Marcel Marceau
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Gail VV. Rector, President Roscoe 0. Bonistcel, VicePresident Erich A. Walter, Secretary E. Thurston Thieme, Treasurer
William L. Brittain Allen P. Britton Douglas D. Crary Robben W. Fleming
Harlan Hatcher Paul K. Kauper Wilbur K. Pierpont Daniel H. Schurz
INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS --197 172
CHORAL UNION SERIES HILL AUDITORIUM
ZARA NELSOVA, Cellist, and
GRANT JOHANNESEN, Pianist.....Monday, October 4
RUGGIERO RICCI, Violinist.......Monday, November 8
SHIRLEY VERRETT, MezzoSoprano .... Thursday, November 18
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA......Wednesday, December 8
ANDRES SEGOVIA, Guitarist.......Saturday, January 22
ALICIA DE LARROCHA, Pianist......Friday, February 11
PRAGUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.....Sunday, February 27
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.....Tuesday, March 14
VIENNA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.....aft., Sunday, March 19
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA........Sunday, April 9
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES RACKHAM AUDITORIUM
CARL DOLMETSCH, Recorder, and
JOSEPH SAXBY, Harpsichordist......Monday, October 11
SAAR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA......Tuesday, October 26
CONCENTUS MUSICUS from Vienna .... Saturday, November 6
PRAGUE STRING QUARTET......Tuesday, November 16
BERLIN PHILHARMONIC OCTET......Friday, January 28
OSCAR GHIGLIA, Guitar, and
FRANS BRUEGGEN, Recorder.....Wednesday, February 23
BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS . . Wednesday, March IS
EAST ASIAN SERIES RACKHAM AUDITORIUM
EDO FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND PANTOMIME, from Japan Friday, October 29
P'ANSORI, music of legends from Korea.....Friday, February 25
SHANTUNG TRADITIONAL MUSIC, from China . . . Friday, April 7
INAUGURAL SERIES FOR THE POWER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
MARCEL MARCEAU, French Mime......Friday, October IS
and Saturday, October 16
SIERRA LEONE NATIONAL DANCE CO. (Africa) . Saturday, October 30 ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET COMPANY . . Wednesday, November 10
SWINGLE SINGERS from Paris......Friday, November 19
CHORICA DANCE THEATER (Athens) .... Saturday, November 20
and Sunday, November 21
NATIONAL BALLET OF WASHINGTON . . aft., Saturday, November 27 NATIONAL BALLET OF WASHINGTON,
MARGOT FONTEYN, Guest Artist . . . eve., Saturday, November 27 PAUL KUENTZ CHAMBER ORCHESTRA .... Monday, January 17
and with Choral Union singers......Wednesday, January 19
HERMANN PREY, Baritone.......Thursday, February 17
JULIAN BREAM, Guitar and Lute......Wednesday, March 1
"ENTERTAINMENT FOR ELIZABETH".....Sunday, April 16
(New York Pro Musica)
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