Remy Charlip

Remy Charlip

This is inspiring. It is showing how somebody followed a career within interdisciplinary arts, combining art music and dance (the things I am passionate about) and helped support children through these art forms.

- passion and talent for art from an early age
- “being a painter seemed hopeless to me,” and he turned to other art forms including dance and acting.
-a dancer, choreographer and founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
- never lost sight of writing and illustrating for children, and eventually published more than 38 books, which he often claimed helped support his other pursuits.
-work cut across a wide spectrum of art forms, aesthetic registers and audiences. He drew no particular distinctions among them. All were forms of an “internal dance,” as he called it, that he liked to stage in his own and other people’s minds.
-dance and children’s books, shared some essential elements. Both speak in a visual language for the most part, and both move through a series of scenes.
-He became a founding member of the company and did publicity and designed flyers as well as danced with them
-Remy was an exceptional teacher and helped people of all ages and creative disciplines access their creativity with a whimsical and profound simplicity and holistic depth. His teaching brought together many creative practices and healing modalities.
-Remy wrote and illustrated many articles about his creative philosophy, teaching, performing and healing practices. CQ published five of these articles in the First Remy Charlip Reader (1986).
-He wrote a manual for teaching an interdisciplinary approach to teaching the arts to children.

He sent illustrations like this to dance companies, as a stimulus for them to choreograph dances as they interpret them.

His VS Mine. They both focus on the shapes and body language of the dances. His is before the movements have been created and mine is after the movements have been danced. Similar yet different.