Remy Charlip
Abraham 'Remy' Charlip (born January 10, 1929)[1] is an American artist, writer, choreographer, theatre director, designer and teacher.
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[edit] Career
He 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 calls "air mail dances". He sends a set of drawings to a dance company, and the dancers order the positions and create transitions and context.
He has performed with John Cage, he was a founder member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for which he also designed sets and costumes, he directed plays for the Judson Poet's Theater, he co-founded the Paper Bag Players, he served as head of the Children's Theater and Literature Department at Sarah Lawrence College. He won two Village Voice Obie Awards, three New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year citations, and was awarded a six-month residency in Kyoto from the Japan/U.S. Commission on the Arts. He has written and/or illustrated 29 children's books and currently lives in San Francisco, California, USA.
Remy Charlip was the model for illustrations of Georges Méliès in the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, written and illustrated by Brian Selznick.[2]
[edit] Choreography
- Meditation (solo, 1966)
- Dance in Bed (solo)
- Glow Worm (solo)
[edit] Children's books
- 1956 Dress Up and Let's Have a Party. Scott.
- 1957 Where is Everybody?. Scott.
- 1957 It Looks Like Snow Greenwillow, reprint 2000, On Dirait Qu'il Neige
- 1962 The Tree Angel Knopf.
- 1964 Fortunately. Parents Magazine Press.
- 1966 Mother, Mother, I Feel Sick, Send for the Doctor, Quick, Quick, Quick. Four Winds Press
- 1969 Arm in Arm (A Collection of Connections, Endless Tales, Reiterations, and other Echolalia). ISBN 0-590-07758-9.
- 1973 Harlequin and the Gift of Many Colors.
- 1975 Thirteen Parents Mag. Press.
- 1987 Handtalk Birthday Four Winds Press
- 1999 Peanut Butter Party. Tricycle Press.
- 1999 Sleepytime Rhyme. Tricycle Press. Greenwillow Books. ISBN 0688162711
- 2000 Why I Will Never Ever Ever Ever Have Enough Time to Read This Book. Tricycle Press.
- 2007 A Perfect Day. Greenwillow Books. ISBN 978-0-06—51972-8.
[edit] Sources
- ^ "Birthdays of Children's Authors and Illustrators". On-Lion for Kids. New York Public Library. http://kids.nypl.org/reading/childrensauthorbirthdays.cfm. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
- ^ Brian Selznick. "About Remy Charlip". theinventionofhugocabret.com. http://www.theinventionofhugocabret.com/about_remy.htm. Retrieved 2011-11-23.
- "Young at Heart: A Celebration of Remy Charlip" in the Library of Congress LC Information Bulletin, June 23, 1997
- Remy Charlip at WorldCat.org
[edit] External links
- The Paper Bag Players, co-founded by Charlip and Judith Martin (Not the same Judith Martin widely known as "Miss Manners.")
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