*1950 in Crans-Montana, CH, lives in Soest, DE

It was on the ice, at home, in the beautiful ski resort of Crans Montana in Switzerland that Charles Mudry discovered dance. Later, at the age of 17, he received his first ballet lesson from Serge Golovine, in Geneva. He made his début in 1970 at the Tivoli’s Pantomime Theatre in Copenhagen. A year later he joined the Royal Swedish Ballet directed by Erik Bruhn. Charles remained with the company for many years leaving only twice, the first time to study at the G.I.T.I.S. Choreographic Institute in Moscow 1975–77, and then to work as a ballet master for John Neumeier’s Hamburg Ballet 1985–90.

Since 1994 he has been regularly invited as a guest teacher.

Charles has long been an enthusiastic artist and in 2012 he began to spend more and more time painting and drawing, signing his work CMB. He also started to accept commissions designing for stage productions.

The mountains, snow and ice of Crans-Montana, the Alpine village where it all began, continue to inspire Mudry’s constructive drawings and paintings, as well as other landscapes, structures or scenes he observes while out and about.

 ‘Drawing,’ he says, ‘is not so different from dancing: my table is the stage and when I sit at it, I let my imagination lead me where it will.’