Japan Mime Studio
Description:
Hiroyasu Sasaki ProfileTokyo in 1939 and majored in Performing Arts at Meiji University.
He studied mime with Hironobu Oikawa and modern dance with Kazuo Ohno from 1958 to 1965.
He went to Paris in 1965 to study corporal mime with Etienne Decroux, and, in the summers, also studied "real mime"according to the Stanislavsky Method as taught by the distinguished Bella Reine.
After returning to Japan he took over the Japan Mime Studio, and has worked unceasingly for over 47 years to promote mime and train aspiring mime artists.
1993 (France) Theatre du Temps in Paris
1994 (Japan) Edo-Tokyo Hakubutsukan Hall in Tokyo
1995 (Japan) Asian Mime Fest in Tokyo
1996 (Japan) Studio Kinshicho in Tokyo
1998 (Japan) TV show " Daredemo Picasso " with Marcel Marceau
1999 (Japan) 40th anniversary TheaterTram in Tokyo
2001 (France) Embassy of Japan in Paris
2002 (France) Bertin-Poiree in Paris
(Germany) Ballhaus in Berlin / Wasserschloss Klaffenbach in Chemnitz
2003 (Korea) International Mime Festival in Chuncheon
(France) Festival in Avignon Theatre de la Danse Golvine
(France) Bertin-Poiree in Paris
2004 (Japan Meguro parsimmon Hall in Tokyo
2005 (Romania) the National Theatre Radu Stanca in Sibiu
Cassandora in Bucharest
(Greece) International Puppet theatre and and Mime Festival of Kilkis
(Italy) The Japan Cultural Institute in Rome (The Japan Foundation)
2006 (Japan) Edo-Tokyo Hakubutsukan Hall in Tokyo