We are a highly trained, distinctly qualified, overtly eager, singularly creative, exceptionally silly (and many other modified adjectives) mime duo. Also referred to as "physical theeaaatre" when we're embarrassed to say "mime". We began working together in 2002, united by a shared love of this timeless and wonderful art that crosses language, cultural and social barriers. Our inspirations include Marcel Marceau, Red Skelton, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Lucille Ball and Monty Python, to name a few.

We love youtube and DVD sets of the Muppets with special features,

but we also believe in the importance of stepping away from TV, computer  and smart phone screens to experience live performance. It’s a marvelous place where a visceral connection can occur between real performers, moving through carefully choreographed skits, and a real audience, who are laughing, gasping, and generally having a rip-roarin' good ol' time. We believe that laughter is a powerful force, and that shared laughter is beautiful.

Besides numerous Fringe Festivals and self-produced shows, Kirsten and Dean have performed at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Anoka-Ramsey Community College, Stillwater High School, the Alliance Française, Minneapolis Retired Teachers Inc.,  among others.  We also appear frequently at Ball’s Cabaret.

Kirsten is a graduate of L’Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame de Marcel Marceau in Paris, France.  She first discovered the magic of inclinations, rotations and triple designs at her church in Oklahoma City, where she also learned of Marceau’s school and decided to audition.  She spent the next three years studying with Marceau, as well as the world’s foremost practitioners of Corporeal Mime (which is to mime what ballet is to dance), rounded out with classes in dance, fencing and acrobatics.  Following graduation, Kirsten spent another year and a half touring Europe with some of her classmates in a VW bus as Mime de Rien in an original production titled Le Pese, le Flouze, le Blé.  Returning to the US, she moved to Minneapolis where she met Dean at the MargolisBrown physical theater school.

Dean’s mime career began right out of high school.  The Pomp and Circumstance of Friday’s graduation was still ringing in his ears when he started class on Monday morning at the Goldston and Johnson School for Mimes in Gambier, Ohio.  He soon began touring schools across the country, enchanting, educating (and sometimes bewildering) America’s youth.  In the 90’s, he had the opportunity to study with Marcel Marceau, an experience which opened a whole new vista for him in the art of silent communication.  Later he moved to Minnesota to further train in physical theater with Kari Margolis.  Wanting to expand his exploration into the world of mime, he called Kirsten and suggested they share a studio to work on small projects.... he’s been stuck with her ever since.