Philippe Bizot was born in Bordeaux. At eight, he discovered, amazed, the Mime Marceau, which directs all his life. Self-taught, he sharpens his passion for work sign in dinner theaters in Bordeaux and Paris, with the encouragement of Jean-Louis Barrault.
The International Prize Pantomime of the City of Paris awarded him twenty years in 1974. Since then, he continues to travel the world playing and teaching a pantomime fluid and magical. His gesture has been enriched by the refined art of kabuki, in resonance with its requirement of stylization. Its educational work for adults and children with deaf-mutes, autism, disabled, in the world. He created schools Mime Bordeaux, Marseille; abroad: the United States, Africa, Lebanon, Bolivia, Pakistan …
The First Prize of the Festival of World Theater is assigned to Puerto Montt in Chile, in June 2003. In 2004, he celebrated his thirty year career: thirty years of international tours and lectures, staged, shows Pantomime Blanche, which seems to reincarnate the unusual character of Baptiste (Jean Baptiste the mime Deburau hero Children Paradise, Marcel Carne), You and Me, The Night Watch; films (Marquis, Le Merle Blanc, the twelve strokes of noon, the wiper rail); write full of emotion and humor: The Art of Fugue (1995) Small Steps to Happiness (1997) Fragmentation of solitude (2007). It also runs films for TV: The shop of Mr. Mime, twenty-four tales inspired gestural knowledge of legends around the world.
In 2005, China opened the doors of the Festival of Suzhou to Shanghai. He played in alternation with a Chinese company then staged the famous Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu, masterpiece of the Kunqu Opera. In spring 2007, Fragments presents a unique show combining music, light and movement, played in Shanghai.
In August 2007, he founded the Compagnie de Mime Amuka, Bolivia, composed of children or adults of all ages, disabled or disadvantaged, giving them the experience of an adventure that cultural values.
Always between two shows, between two countries, this poet’s act, alone and quiet, which defines itself as “a contemplative active” also finds time to paint watercolors of subtle and delicate as his art, while tenderness in derision and mystery.
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