Mime artist Andrés Valdés dies

Andrés Valdés y Fuentes, a Havana-born artist who introduced Slovenia to modern mime when he moved to the country in 1964, has died, aged 86.

"There is no Slovenian drama theatre in which Andrés Valdés had not left his creative mark, and there is no artist of the 1964-74 cohorts of actors who would not remember his professor," the Slovenian Association of Theatre Artists wrote on announcing his death on 8 April.

Born and raised in Havana, Cuba, Valdés started his career as a dancer and actor, making guest appearances worldwide. Coming to Europe, he was a mime student of the...