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Samuel Ben Or Avital
Samuel Ben-Or Avital was born in a small village Sefrou, near Fez, in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. He was educated in the home of a simple and remarkable family, which traces its Kabbalistic lineage to 15th Century Spain and before. Carrying from father to son in an unbroken line, in the Sephardic tradition the ancient, beautiful and practical wisdom of the Hebrew Science of Kabbalah.
In 1971, he founded Le Centre du Silence Mime School in Boulder, Colorado. USA. In addition to performing internationally, he holds the summer international mime workshop every year, weekend workshops, three time a year, and teaches privately. Samuel hosted for four years in Boulder, Colorado, a bi-weekly forum of creative expression
called Café-Salon Philosophique.
In addition to numerous articles, Avital has published the following books Mime Workbook (1975) (a German edition, Mimenspiel was published in 1985), Mime and Beyond: The Silent Outcry (1985), and The Conception Mandala: Creative Techniques for Inviting a Child into Your Life (1992), co-authored with Mark Olsen. The BodySpeak Manual, and the recent privately published book, The Invisible Stairway: Kabbalistic Meditations on the Hebrew Letters, both in English
and Hebrew.
He has spent the past 40 years performing and teaching worldwide. Avital speaks six languages and considers himself a dedicated and good student of life. His life and work is the subject of a video: The Silent Outcry - The Life and Times of Samuel Avital, available from Le Centre du Silence.
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