On Sunday, Les Pierrettes dedicated the organization’s annual ball to Pierrot, the French master of pantomime. Held this year at the New Orleans Convention Center, the ball had as its theme ...

Pantomime is often seen as something quaint ... and fairgrounds to tell stories of the old man Pantalone, the clown Pierrot, and Columbine - the girl in love with the naughty servant Arlecchino.

But pantomime is not the most modern of affairs ... Colombina, Scaramouche or Pierrot; and the Harlequin. In the 17th Century, adaptations of these characters became familiar in English theatre ...

From a poem by Antonin Artaud to the pantomimes of Pierrot, between Paris and London, this enchanting suite of musical drifts composes words and faces, beings and places.