Charlie le Mindu wears multiple hats -Monte-Carlo's 2017 edition of Rite of Spring, in a performance titled Massâcre. The show ran from July 19 - 22, 2017 at the Salle Garnier Opéra de Monte-Carlo in Monaco. The world-renowned Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo is the official national company of the Principality of Monaco and has been established for more than three decades.
Prior to entering the ballet costume design scene, the French-born, Los Angeles-based Charlie le Mindu has been transforming the art world with his offbeat design aesthetic, innovative installations, and pioneering use of human hair, among other nontraditional materials. Influenced by vaudeville and surrealism, he began his career as a young hairdresser, refining his skills in salons and nightclubs and learning how to fashion wigs into wearable works of art. Eventually, he developed the unique brand of "haute coiffure". Le Mindu's designs for Massâcre brought the performance's collision of violence and poetry to life. Inspired by Fellini characters, le Mindu played with the eyes of the audience by producing a psychedelic experience with his expert use of hair and fabrics to enhance the movement of the dancers. Le Mindu's designs move seamlessly with the dancers' bodies in a fluid synergy, fundamentally connected, resulting in a penetrating and dream-like visual journey.
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