Barbie wilde12/8/2023 Our highlight was supporting Gary Numan at Wembley Arena. SHOCK quickly became popular during the New Romantic period in the 80s and we moved from disco to trendy nightclubs to supporting artists like Ultravox, Adam and the Ants, Depeche Mode, and more. We moved out of Fringe Theatre into the Disco scene when we joined SHOCK and used our classical techniques to do puppet and robotic mime to 80s electronica music. Tim (and soon I) were part of Desmond’s mime troupe SILENTS, then Tim and I branched off to create a mime show called DRAWING IN SPACE. We had to do a mime where we played two fat people, which was a lot of fun, so I was hooked. He was tall and thin and I was short and thin(ish). That evening, I met my partner for the next four years, Tim Dry. The teacher was called Desmond Jones, who had in turn been taught by Étienne Decroux, who was Marcel Marceau’s mentor. I went there one evening and joined a mime class. A friend of mine has just done the same and she recommended checking out the Dance Centre in Covent Garden. I decided to do a semester in the University’s London program. I was studying Drama and Anthropology at the University of Syracuse. Could you tell us a little about how this all started and your experience as a movement artist? You have a fascinating background in classical mime and various cabaret and robotic style dance troupes, you’re most notable one being SHOCK. Punk Robotic Mime performer to the fearsome Female Cenobite in Clive Barker’s Hellbound, Barbie Wilde shares with us her life as a movement artist, horror icon and her twisted approach to literature. Exquisite Desires: An Interview with Barbie Wilde
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