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The basics
Quick facts
Intro
French mime
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Male
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Birth:
1863(Ajaccio, arrondissement of Ajaccio, Corse-du-Sud, France)
Death:
1930(Sauveterre, Grand Avignon, Vaucluse, France)
The details
Biography
Introduction
Séverin Cafferra, known as Séverin or mime Séverin (1863-1930), was one of the best-known French Pierrots or mime artists around the turn of the twentieth century.
Life
Caffera was born in Ajaccio, Corsica. He studied under the Marseille mime Louis Rouffe (1849-1885), who in turn had studied under Charles Deburau. He worked at Marseilles, then at the Théatre des Funambules in Paris. In his 1929 book, L'Homme Blanc : souvenirs d'un Pierrot, Caffera describes Rouffe as having created a complete language of gesture.