Jacqueline Humbert

Jacqueline Humbert (* 1952 ) is an American singer, costume and set designer.

Life

Humbert became known in the late 1970s through the fictional character J. Jasmin . The performance created in connection with the composer David Rosenboom is documented in the albums MyNew Music and Daytime Viewing (1980).

She has been working with Robert Ashley since the early 1980s . She designed costumes and sets for many of his opera productions, in which she also worked as a singer. In the opera Improvement she sang the lead role of Linda. On the album Chanteuse: Songs of a Different Sort she sang works by Sam Ashley , David Rosenboom, Joan La Barbara , Robert Ashley, George Manupelli , James Tenny , Larry Polansky , Gustavo Matamoros and Katrina Krimsky in addition to her own compositions . A stage version of Chanteuse premiered at the Subtropics Festival in Miami (2002), and later shown at the Lotus Fine Arts Multicultural Music & Dance Studios in New York, the EarJam Festival in Los Angeles and the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).

As a costume designer, Humbert u. a. the television opera Perfect Lives and Atalanta (Acts of God) directed by Ashley; in the latter she also played the role of Odalisque. With her costume design business Avant-Garter Fashions she worked in San Francisco a. a. with the DanceArt Company , the Zaccho SF Dance Theater , the MaFish Co. and the Oberlin Dance Collective and with choreographers such as Alonzo King and Joanna Haigood . She also designed the costumes for the Oakland Ballet production of Emily Keeler's The Awakening and Our Town . Much of her graphic work has been used for record and CD covers, books and posters.

Humbert teaches experimental performance at the California Institute of the Arts Theater School.

Web links

• Jacqueline Humbert (English)