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Mime and Beyond by Samuel Avital5/21/2023 ![]() The festival was documented by articles in newspapers around the world, and also by a ten-page article in the January 1975 issue of Smithsonian magazine. ![]() Lou Campbell, the head of the theater department at the college, with the help of Program Coordinator Bari Rolfe, it set out to be a smorgasbord of experience in master classes and lecture-demonstrations, as well as a film series rounding out the mainstage festival performances. Held on the campus of Viterbo College in La Crosse, Wisconsin, the event ran from July 20th to August 10th. ![]() In the summer of 1974, America was knee-deep in the Watergate Hearings the World’s Fair was in Spokane, Washington and John Denver was serenading us over the airwaves with “Sunshine on My Shoulder.” Amidst all of this, at a small Wisconsin college along the Mississippi River, there was a gathering of some 500 mime performers, teachers, students, news hounds, and townspeople: the International Mime Institute and Festival. ![]()
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