Paradoxically, however, the silently mimed sequences evoke an even greater visual horror.
Early nineteenth-century potboiling mimed householder status through, quite literally, cooking.
The final notes of the music are mimed by the performer.
For me, the import of the airplane/ fly distinction is that, while a "natural" gesture is unitary, extending the range of discourse requires distinctions that cannot be mimed directly.
They literally just mimed everything, they went through the entire actions, but they were allowed to get through to the very end that time, those actors.
The dance was too exact an inscription of the music: repetition of any musical event could do no more than inspire repetition of its attendant mimed gesture.
By the time all four fugue entries have been heard, the four dancers are animated, and the dance continues in this exact, mimed reduplication of the fugue's unfolding.
She mimed the words ' icing sugar ' to her neighbour and, rather than saying the words out loud, she mimed the numbers as she pointed to and counted the cakes.
