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• Digital Libraries - Gallica
• Catalogs
• Collections and departments
  • Arts
    • Architecture and city planning
    • Art and art history
    • Performing arts
    • Cinema and video
    • Prints, photographs, and posters
    • Music
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  • Science and technology
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  • Social sciences
  • The departments
• Information retrieval aids
• Reproduction services
• Reader registration for the Research Library

See also

• Sélection de fonds entrés depuis 2006 au département des Arts du spectacle
• Music
• Collection Auguste Rondel
• Aide à la recherche dans la collection Rondel

Catalogs

• Catalogue général de la BnF
• Catalogues imprimés

Where to consult the documents ?

• Performing arts department
• Opera Library
• Iconography at Prints and Photographs Department

Ask a librarian

SINDBAD is a free virtual reference service providing document references and factual information. Ask a librarian (SINDBAD)

Performing arts

Stage and street, costumes and masks, mime and puppetry...

• Theater
• Opera
• Dance, ballet
• Mime
• Puppetry and shadow theater
• Circus
• Street theater
• Music-hall, songs, cabaret
• Celebrations

Mime

Mime artist Jean-Gaspard Debureau in a  Pierrot costume. Print by Delaunay

© BnF

The Richelieu Library (Site Richelieu) and the Opera Library hold collections dedicated to the history of mime: books, pantomime librettos, prints, and photographs.

The Performing Arts department holds the collection put together by mime artist Maurice Farina, materials on actor and mime artist Etienne Decroux (texts, reviews, lectures, etc.), creator of the Mimos Peter Bu festival, and costumes.

The Opera Library owns a series of works on the techniques of mime, most of which date from the 19th century. It also holds an extensive collection arising from the personal collections of famous mime artist Georges Wague (1874-1965).

 

Digital resources

Les Signets de la BnF - Mime

Tuesday, January 18, 2011