Associate Diploma in Mime
Successful Learners have the right to append ANEA (Mime) after their names.
General Objectives
The Associate Diploma in Mime is designed to:
- provide a progressive training programme for actors and mime artists
- provide professional development and specialised training for mime artists
- provide a standard of training that is recognised by wider agencies
- provide a relevant and challenging syllabus that encourages a high standard of knowledge, research and performance
Learning Outcomes
Learners should:
- demonstrate a professionally high standard of performance
- demonstrate an accurate historical knowledge
- demonstrate an awareness of the modern idiom
- demonstrate attention to detail and spatial awareness
- sustain the continuous creative invention,
- demonstrate an understanding of mimetic technique
- demonstrate a good understanding of situations, characterisations and space
- demonstrate work that is of high technical quality and artistically effective
- communicate a mature understanding and appreciation of genre through both their practical and theoretical work
- demonstrate the qualities necessary to be a successful mime artist
Learners for this must already have achieved the Grade 8 Mime examination.
Learners must be at least 17 years old.
The examination consists of:
- A practical session of approximately one hour’s duration at which two examiners are present
- There is no written paper
- 75 marks are required to pass
The Practical Examination
Learners should:
- Demonstrate the wearing of costume and the handling of properties from any two periods selected by the examiners at the time of the examination. Time limit 3 minutes for each (20 marks)
- Tell a story involving at least two characters using traditional mime gestures. Time limit 3 minutes (15 marks)
- Be prepared to improvise a mime based on two contrasting emotions selected by the examiner. Time limit 3 minutes (15 marks)
- Show how two contrasting characters of their own choice approach the same occupation. Time limits 2 minutes each (15 marks)
- Present a narrative mime of their own choice. Time limit 5 minutes (15 marks)
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Discuss in depth with the examiners:
- the origins of mime
- Comedia dell Arte characters
- the effect of costume on movement
- mime in education
- the building of technique (20 marks)