Bertrand Castelli was a French choreographer, born in 1929, who died in 2008.
Biography
Bertrand Castelli (December 3, 1929, Salon-de-Provence – August 1, 2008) was a French producer, director, lighting designer, choreographer, painter and writer best known as the executive producer of many productions of the rock musical Hair in partnership with the show's main producers Michael Butler and Annie Fargue. Castelli was instrumental in helping the show reach Broadway and would later lead the effort to introduce Hair to a worldwide theatre audience.
Beginning as an innovative lighting designer for ballet and opera, Castelli tried screenwriting, playwriting, choreographing and directing before becoming a producer of Hair in New York and then masterminding its many international productions. In later years, he became the artist in residence of a Mexican resort Belmond Maroma, where he created paintings for every room in the resort.
Contemporaries
Josette Amiel
French ballet dancer and dance teacher
Milorad Mišković
Serbian ballet dancer and choreographer (1928–2013)
Dominique Dupuy
French dancer, choreographer
Isaac Alvarez
French choreographer, mime artist and actor (1930–2020)
Claude Pujade-Renaud
French writer and choreographer (1932–2024)
Karin Waehner
French choreographer (1926-1999)
Geneviève Laporte
French artists' model (1926-2012)
Jacqueline Roque
French model (1926-1986)
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