Mimic
Mime in traditional ballet - ensembles those actors who in pantomime roles of the repertoire -Ballette occur, as opposed to the actual dancers. "Expression" is required from the facial expressors, while the dancers have to offer technically perfect jumping and turning. Often the mimics are the older dancers. The roles of Don Quixote in the ballet Don Quichotte (1869), choreographed for the first time by Marius Petipa, or of Drosselmeyer in Petipas The Nutcracker (1892), for example, are performed by a mimic.
The mimics come from the character and grotesque dancers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Century ago who performed comical or bourgeois roles.
In modern ballet, the distinction between dancers and mimers is eliminated as much as possible, in dance theater technology takes a back seat to the personality of the dancer.
