Remy Charlip

Abraham Remy Charlip (January 10, 1929 – August 14, 2012) was an American artist, writer, choreographer, theatre director, theatrical designer, and teacher. He wrote or illustrated 29 children's books.

Life and career

Charlip studied art at Straubenmuller Textile High School in Manhattan, and fine arts at Cooper Union in New York, graduating in 1949.

In the 1960s Charlip created a unique form of choreography, which he called "air mail dances". He would send a set of drawings to a dance company, and the dancers would then order the positions and create transitions and context, without Charlip's further participation.

Charlip performed with composer John Cage, and was a founder member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, for which he also designed sets and costumes. He directed plays for the Judson Poets Theatre, co-founded the Paper Bag Players children's theater company, and served as head of the Children's Theater and Literature Department at Sarah Lawrence College. Off-Broadway, he was the "Stage Director" of a 1962 production of Bertolt Brecht's Man Is Man for Julian Beck's Living Theatre, for which he received his first of two Obie Awards,[1] and designed the set for the American Place Theatre production of Paul Goodman's Jonah in 1966.[2] He won three New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year citations, and was awarded a six-month residency in Kyoto, Japan from the Japan/U.S. Commission on the Arts.

Charlip was the model for illustrations of Georges Méliès in the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, written and illustrated by Brian Selznick.[3]

He moved to San Francisco in 1989, and worked with local arts groups, including the Oakland Ballet. He died in San Francisco in 2012.[4][5][6]

Choreography

Children's books

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Man is Man" on the IOBDb
  2. ↑ "Jonah" on the IOBDb
  3. ↑ Selznick, Brian. "About Remy Charlip". The Invention of Hugo Cabaret. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
  4. ↑ "Classified Death Notice". New York Times. Retrieved 16 August 2012.
  5. ↑ "Birthdays of Children's Authors and Illustrators". On-Lion for Kids. New York Public Library. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
  6. ↑ Palevsky, Stacey. "Drawing inspiration: Not even a stroke can halt prolific S.F. children’s book artist" JWeekly.com (July 30, 2009)
  7. 1 2 3 4 Siegel, Marcia B. The Tail of the Dragon: New Dance, 1976-1982 Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1991. pp.38-40
  8. 1 2 McDonagh, Don. The Rise and Fall and Rise of Modern Dance New York:Outerbridge & Dienstfrey, 1970. p.98

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