Broward Community College - Silver Sands Yearbook (Fort Lauderdale, FL)

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N, aff' sz, s i' L -'f.A N l Members of the pantomime class engage in both individual and group expression pro- lects. l l l 4 l l Q l 5 i l l l l l l l l l l l l l i l Although Miss Mullikin's panto- mime class is one of the newest in the Drama Department, pantomime itself is the oldest form of Drama. Long be- fore there was a legitimate theatre or language sophisticated enough for dialogue, man's ancestors might have re-enacted the events of the day, per- haps a successful hunt, through panto- mime. Pantomime, the art of acting without spoken dialogue, depends on the actor's bodily movements, ges- tures, and facial expressions to express thoughts and emotions. It isn't as easy as it sounds, there are thousands of subtle shadings of human expression that can be expressed visually . . .and the skilled pantomimist has no dia- logue to bail him out. Pantomime does teach skill in acting, however, and Miss Mullikin is considering making it a pre- requisite to the acting course. -his th- ' a 6 ii'

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Q 'ami' 5 ,. . LJ' . is-, . ..4. ,.. . Assignments for the illustration class include prac- tical applications, such as the airline and radio ad- vertisements and the Silver Sands cover designs fabove and rightj. WW? i 5 s MONDAY 82 30 abc

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'll l i l l , pin. , ,-if f S 5. A ST v xlulk ' lf, -Y . XX Miss Mullikin's amateur panto- mimists meet every Monday and Wed- nesday from two to four. Here, they absorb, rather than learn the art of pantomime, for how can one stereo- type an emotion so subtle as love, or one with as many variations as hate? The students learn by doing, and ob- serving. To help develop their observance skills, the ETSI three assignments were animals. The first, an animal as small or smaller than an insect, the second larger than an insect or smaller than a dog, the third larger than a dog, but smaller than a horse. The students ob- served their insects and dogs, and what- ever, and came forth with some un- usual and imaginative results. They ranged from an ameba, to praying mantises, cockroaches, rabbits, chip- munks, kangaroos, horses, and even a clam! Jkt N4 Y. X 'la I W .