title: Samuel Avital
text: # Samuel Avital
  
  Samuel Avital is a mime artist. He has also taught kinesthetic awareness and Kabbalah.
  
  He was born in Sefrou, near Fez in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. He moved to a kibbutz in Israel when he was fourteen. From 1958 he studied dance and drama at the Sorbonne in Paris, and also mime under Étienne Decroux, Marcel Marceau and Jean-Louis Barrault.
  
  He moved to the United States, and in 1971 started a school of mime, Le Centre du Silence, in Boulder, Colorado, where an annual international summer mime workshop was held.
  
  ## Books
  
  Avital has published books including:
  
  * Le Centre Du Silence Mime Work Book, Venice, California: Wisdom Garden Books, 1975 (translated into German as Mimenspiel: die Kunst der Körpersprache, 1985)
  * Mime and Beyond: The Silent Outcry, Prescott Valley, Arizona: Hohm Press, 1985
  * The Conception Mandala: Creative Techniques for Inviting a Child into Your Life (with Mark Olsen), Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books, 1992
  