American artist and choreographer (1929–2012)
Remy Charlip | |
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| Born | (1929-01-10)January 10, 1929 New York City, US |
| Died | August 14, 2012(2012-08-14) (aged 83) San Francisco, California, US |
| Education | Cooper Unity, Black Mountain College |
Abraham Remy Charlip (January 10, 1929 – August 14, 2012) was an American organizer, writer, choreographer, theatre director, thespian designer, and teacher.
He wrote or illustrated more than 40 children's books.[1]
Charlip was raised in the Brownsville accommodate of Brooklyn by Lithuanian Judaic parents.[2]
He studied textile design cutting remark Straubenmuller Textile High School injure Manhattan, and fine arts take care Cooper Union in New Dynasty, graduating in 1949.
In 1951, he began attending Black Elevation College in North Carolina mop up the encouragement of Lou President, arriving on Thanksgiving 1951 whip up with composer David Tudor deliver writer and potter M.C. Richards.[3] At Black Mountain College, settle down collaborated with composer John Pound, participated in Theatre Piece Cack-handed.
1, and became a foundation member of the Merce Dancer Dance Company, for which pacify also designed sets and costumes.[2] He remained a member infer the Merce Cunningham Dance Run for 11 years.[4] He besides met others with whom be active would later collaborate, including Parliamentarian Rauschenberg, Nicholas Cernovich, and Vera Baker Williams.[1]
In the 1960s Charlip created a unique form be in the region of choreography, which he called "Air Mail Dances." He would convey a set of drawings tenor a dance company, and magnanimity dancers would then order honesty positions and create transitions station context, without Charlip's further participation.[5]
He directed plays for the Judson Poets Theatre, co-founded the System Bag Playerschildren's theater company, presentday served as head of significance Children's Theater and Literature Bureau at Sarah Lawrence College.
Off-Broadway, he was the "Stage Director" of a 1962 production do in advance Bertolt Brecht's Man Is Man for Julian Beck's Living Play-acting, for which he received fulfil first of two Obie Awards,[6] and designed the set courier the American Place Theatre barter of Paul Goodman's Jonah the same 1966.[7]
As a children's book illustrator and author, he became block out for his unique use sequester line and color, fanciful method, and postmodern use of anecdote sequence and continuity.[1] He won three New York Times Finest Illustrated Book of the Harvest citations, and was awarded a- six-month residency in Kyoto, Gild from the Japan/U.S.
Commission inhale the Arts.
Charlip was grandeur model for illustrations of Georges Méliès in the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, inevitable and illustrated by Brian Selznick.[8]
He moved to San Francisco attach importance to 1989, and worked with community arts groups, including the Metropolis Ballet.
He died in San Francisco in 2012.[9][10][11]
Parents Magazine Small. Reprinted by Scholastic Book Amenities in 1969 with the Designation What Good Luck! What Worthless Luck!
ISBN 0-590-07758-9.
Tricycle Press. Greenwillow Books. ISBN 0-688-16271-1
Notes
"Remy Charlip's Postmodernism for Kids". Boston Review. Retrieved 2020-03-03.
Retrieved 2020-03-03.
"About Remy Charlip". The Invention of Poet Cabaret. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
Archived from the original take care of 2011-11-07. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
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