Chez Bricktop

Discover the vibrant world of 1920s Paris in a live radio broadcast.

Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, also known as Bricktop, was an American dancer, jazz singer and vaudeville artist who was also the owner of the famous nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris. The club was a hub for French artists as well as African Americans who had moved to Paris to escape racism in America. Through Bricktop's story and their interviews, soprano Claron McFadden and pianist Claire Chevallier recreate the musical atmosphere of Paris Montmartre, then known as the Harlem of Paris. Director Luigi De Angelis conceived Chez Bricktop as a live radio programme that superimposes the atmosphere of a century-old club with an audience and special guests.

Credits

• A "live" radio broadcast • with Claron Mc Fadden, Claire Chevallier and guests
• Concept • Claron McFadden / Claire Chevallier
• Direction | Scenography | Light design • Luigi De Angelis
• Dramaturgy • Chiara Lagani
• Musical advice | Jazzarrangements • Janelle Gill
• Music • Tcha Limberger / Vilmos Csikós / Benjamin Clement
• Vocals • Bertrand Belin
• Styling • Perrine Philomeen
• Sound technique • Pieter-Jan Buelens
• Light • Anne Van Es

Music by Scott Joplin, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, Erik Satie, Fats Waller, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy and Django Reinhardt