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Sasaki was born in Tokyo in 1939. He studied mime with Hironobu Oikawa and modern dance with Kazuo Ohno (co-founder of Japanese “butoh” performance) and in 1965 he went to Paris to study “corporeal mime” with its pioneer, Etienne Decroux, and “real mime” according to the Stanislavsky Method as taught by the distinguished Bella Reine. After returning to Japan he took over the Japan Mime Studio where he incorporated older more established movement based theatre forms of his country, such as Noh, Kyogen, Bunraku, Kabuki and Japanese traditional dance, into his work and teaching of mime.
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