Teaching and Performances
at
Illinois Chamber Music Festival

 

Laurie Willets & T. Daniel Teaching
"How To See Music"
Six Classes for the
High School and College Music Student

They also performed on
two Performances with these works:

A New Work
"Eloheinu" - Friedrich Gernsheim (1838-1916)
Nina Gordon, Cello; Irina Kats, Piano; Laurie Willets, Mime

An Reimagined Work
"Girl with the Flaxen Hair" - Claude Debussy
T. Daniel & Laurie Willets - Mimes
Irena Kats - Piano

 

To Promote the workshops and performance as
part of the Illinois Chamber Music Festival
There was a Fantastic Interview:

WGLT Interviewed T. Daniel & Laurie Willets
On their Life, Career and the Festival

WGLT is on the campus of Illinois State University
T. Daniel & Laurie Willets' Alma Mater
Undergraduate and Graduate School

Click Here to hear the interview

 

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Theatre Residencies
Are Important!


As the residency at Illinois Wesleyan University &
Illinois Chamber Music Festival has demonstrated...


Our 3 day & 5 day Residencies
explore the ins & outs of Theatre and Movement!
These Residencies Challenge, Enlighten and Expand
the students horizons.

Discover what a T. Daniel & Laurie Willets Residency
can do for your students...

Click Here to Learn More about these residencies

 

Who We Are...

T. Daniel Productions is an international Mime company, founded on the artistic accomplishments of Artistic Directors T. Daniel and Laurie Willets. Our Mime Plays are not only an immersive experience of visual excitement but also a remarkable feat of combining Mime with Music and exceptional story telling with an artistic flare. We are observers of our culture and the human experience. We have turned our insights into moving images that illuminate the powerful dynamics of human interaction. We want to invite you to experience our creative creations. Join us on our journey to new places which we seldom visit. T. Daniel Productions continues to lead the way to an ever changing dynamic vision of Mime... what the Art of Mime should be!

Continue to learn more about the exciting and dynamic vision of  T. Daniel Productions...





Our Dream

Come join us on our journey ... come dream with us ....

Our dream is to perform Mime as it should be. Please join us on our continued journey...

Please Continue reading, continue dreaming...

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T. Daniel & Laurie Willets
now offer a unique residency program

that explores
Movement in Theatre and
Movement in Acting

T. Daniel Productions creates

Stunning, unparalleled beauty of Human Movement...

Creating a puissant image in the Mind...

Resulting in Music for the Eyes!

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Our Artistic Directors were featured by
Voyage Chicago
Read the interview:

Voyage Chicago





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T. Daniel and Laurie Willets

Founders & Artistic Directors

T. DANIEL & LAURIE WILLETS are internationally-acclaimed Mime and Theatre artist. They studied Theatre at Illinois State University and then they both studied Mime with Marcel Marceau and Etienne Decroux, Father of Modern Mime. Together, they have toured the world with 12 original, full-stage Mime productions. They have also performed with major international orchestras and ensembles. As Artistic Directors of T. Daniel Productions, nfp, they re-created Jean Cocteau’s 1920 pantomime farce, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, with Darius Milhaud’s four-hand piano version. (This was two world premieres, the four-hand piano version with the pantomime and the first professional Mime company to perform the pantomime.) They wrote, directed and performed a new pantomime for the American Premiere of Kurt Weill’s lost work, Magical Night, with Maestro James Conlon conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival.

Mime is not supported by our major institutions of culture,
yet every culture has developed a form of Mime.

T. Daniel Productions needs the support of people - like YOU!
to continue to explore the Art of Mime and to develop meaningful work
for audiences of all ethnicities and cultures.

We are passionate about our Artistic Mission
and would love to share it with You.

Please Give a Little...and Receive Big!

Learn About Our Mission and Ways You Can Supporting T. Daniel Productions





T. Daniel Productions
Supported By

 


T. Daniel Productions
is partially supported by a generous
grant from the Illinois Arts Council,
an agency of the State of Illinois

And Individuals Like You!