Helen O'Grady Drama Academy welcomes renowned Mime Artist from Switzerland, Markus Schmid

Markus Schmid studied under Marcel Marceau at the International School Mimodrame of Paris

Since 1998,  his company, the Co. Andrayas a guideline for the meeting between music, movement and visual arts. His constant challenge is to invent a language where objects leave their status as "foreign body" to become extensions of the actor.

The object is worked as an amplifier, a speaker of the inner musicality of the body actor.

You can go to their website: www.andrayas.com

Markus, his wife,  Marie Gomez and their two boys have been travelling the world performing for children an adults. They have just completed an extensive tour of South America and now they are visiting Africa. 

Today they performed at Sunlands Primary School in Cape Town, one of many schools where the Helen O'Grady Drama Academy runs its international programme.

If you would be interested in seeing their show, or would like to find out more about their world tour, please contact us on 021 6747478 or head to our website www.dramaafrica.com