A performer or artist who specializes in gesture and body movement, or someone who emphasizes the importance of gestures in communication.
From gesture plus the suffix -ist (one who practices or specializes in). A rare term more common in artistic or academic contexts.
Mime artists are gesturists—and interestingly, mime silence actually helped scientists understand that gesture and speech are deeply linked. When mimes have to communicate without sound, they reveal which gestures are language-universal and which are culturally specific.
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