“She teaches Torah without saying a word!”     -Comment made by veiwers at Chabad of El Paso, Texas       Born in Tangier, Morocco, Stella spent 10 years of her early life studying and performing ballet and Spanish dance. Towards the end of her teenage years, she moved to Israel and found a talent for mime studying under Yoram Boker and performing in the Kibbutzim. To pursue the art, Stella made way to Paris where she studied with Fujio at the Theatre de Mime de Paris. She also learned mime with Ella Jaroszewics, a colleague and former wife of Marcel Marceau and star of the Tomashevsky Mime Troupe. Etienne Decroux, a teacher of Marcel Marceau, was also an influencial teacher of Stella, as was Isaac Alavarez and Jean Louis Barrault, who led a workshop that Stella attended.   Stella came to America in 1974 and right away started teaching the art of mime. She gave lectures, workshops and directed mime performances in the Bay area 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 a troupe called Pianomime who performed around the Bay Area. She served in the Ph.D. committee of the Graduate School of Theology at Berkeley representing mime for a graduate student whose thesis was on the use of mime in ancient religion.    It was not until after all this that Stella began to try incorporating Jewish themes from her religious lifestyle in her mimes. Her unique brand of Jewish entertainment evolved gradually, as she was often asked to entertain with her topical mimes on women’s subjects. Rare was the Bas Mitzva, Shabbos Kallah, or Rosh Chodesh group in her community that did not feature a short performance for the assembled women. Over time, Stella created a variety of mimes on many Jewish subjects, and began performing for larger groups all over the country. Now known as the world's only "Kosher Mime", her shows are humorous, sentimental, powerful, and exciting.  Residing in Palo Alto, CA with her husband and four children, Stella continues to give private teaching and consultation to performing mimes, actors, magicians and clowns. She recently choreographed mimes such as Pierrot for L'ecole de Danse, a ballet school in Palo Alto.  Still a performer herself, she is always creating new mimes to add to her own list of shows, and enjoys travelling the country to entertain at Jewish events.