Charlie Chaplin
1889 (Londres) / 1977 (Corsier-sur-Vevey (Suisse))
Artist's webSite
After the cadenced rhythms, between fluidity and acceleration, of his Charlots, the actor-writer-director, still racked by anxiety, contributed to creating an extraordinary total art, by composing his own music - creating in the process a few hits, such as This is my song or Smile, taken up by Nat King Cole, Petula Clark or Eric Clapton - and by regulating the choreography of his feature films. The famous dance of the buns in The Gold Rush (1925), released in 1942 with soundtrack, foreshadowed the humorous little ballet that accompanied the incomprehensibly sung "Titine" in Modern Times (1935), in which the audience discovered Chaplin's voice for the first time. In The Great Dictator, his first talkie in 1940, the little Jewish barber, mistakenly knocked out while defending himself against the aggression of anti-Jewish militias, does front and back somersaults on the sidewalk of the ghetto, while he gives himself a flash haircut to the sound of a Hungarian dance by Brahms! Nijinsky, who came to visit the rising star in 1916 (without ever laughing or smiling), did not hesitate to call him a "born dancer.
Artist's webSite
After the cadenced rhythms, between fluidity and acceleration, of his Charlots, the actor-writer-director, still racked by anxiety, contributed to creating an extraordinary total art, by composing his own music - creating in the process a few hits, such as This is my song or Smile, taken up by Nat King Cole, Petula Clark or Eric Clapton - and by regulating the choreography of his feature films. The famous dance of the buns in The Gold Rush (1925), released in 1942 with soundtrack, foreshadowed the humorous little ballet that accompanied the incomprehensibly sung "Titine" in Modern Times (1935), in which the audience discovered Chaplin's voice for the first time. In The Great Dictator, his first talkie in 1940, the little Jewish barber, mistakenly knocked out while defending himself against the aggression of anti-Jewish militias, does front and back somersaults on the sidewalk of the ghetto, while he gives himself a flash haircut to the sound of a Hungarian dance by Brahms! Nijinsky, who came to visit the rising star in 1916 (without ever laughing or smiling), did not hesitate to call him a "born dancer.
Artist's exhibitions
Charlie Chaplin, l’homme-orchestre.
11/10/2019 - 26/01/2020(Paris) Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris