Stella Filler dances to a tune of her own. With over 50 years experience of miming,  Stella started out by giving lectures and workshops when she came to America. She also directed mime performances at Stanford University, San Jose State University, Santa Clara University, College of Notre Dame, Stanbridge Academy in Palo Alto and the South Peninsula Hebrew Day school. She created her own dance troupe, Pianomime, and performed with them around the Bay Area. She served on the Ph.D committee of the graduate school of theology at Berkley, demonstrating for a graduate student who chose to explore mime in ancient religion as his thesis.

When she was deeply in the world of professional mime that Stella began to incorporate Jewish themes into her art. As a religious woman, she was much sought after as a performer for women events, especially once she skillfully wove beautiful Jewish content into her shows. As soon as her ‘Jewish’ performances become known, she was invited to perform at many a Bat Mitzvah, Shabbos Kallah or Rosh Chodesh group. She quickly gained fame as the world’s only ‘Kosher Mime’.

She created a variety of powerful mimes on various Jewish subjects, weaving them together with humor, excitement and sentimental moments.

Background

Stella was born in Tangier, Morocco and spent much of her youth studying and performing ballet, as well as Spanish dance. With time, she moved to Israel and took her dancing talent to the field of mime. As a young adult, she learned with Yoram Boker and performed in Kibbutzim all over Israel.

She studied with Fuji at the Theatre de Mime de Paris and with Ella Jaroszewics, the star of the Tomasshevsky Mime and former wife of Marcel Marceau. Other influential teachers of Stella’s were Etienne Decroux and Jean Louis Barrault. Stella reached American Shores in 1974 and promptly began teaching the art of mime.

To enrich her skills, Stella made her way to Paris, studying under a slew of famous and talented Mime dance instructors.

… superb! She teaches Torah
without saying a word!

Women from the audience, chabad of el paso, tx

Jewish Women Circle