Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde dramatist and theater director, who worked with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga and more. Chris Green, the executor of Wilson's estate and president of the Robert Wilson Arts Foundation confirmed the news The New York TimesWith the statement that the artist died on Thursday (July 31) in his house in Wassermühle, New York. Green continued that Wilson died after a short illness but did not give an official cause of death. Wilson was 83.
Wilson was in Waco, Texas in 1941. The decision was crucial for Wilson; Hoffman not only helped him overcome his stuttering, but also redefined his perception of dance and how a body can maneuver through space. Years later, Wilson moved to New York permanently after studying architecture and interior design at the Pratt Institute and returning to Texas. After setting up in Soho, he started his first New York Theater Ensemble and christened the Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds.
Much of Wilson's work was characterized by unique lighting and stage design and dealt with the expansion of time and the delayed movement. Ka Mountain and Guardania TerrasseA stage play from 1972 took place over 10 days for a term of 168 hours. In the meantime, actors have spent hours doing simple tasks as walking. “I was interested in watching life as it is and what was special” wrote The performance in 2013.
Although he wrote and staged in the late 1960s and early 70s, Wilson's best -known early work is Einstein on the beachAn opera with four acts that he created with the composer Philip Glass. The five -hour piece was premiered in July 1976 at the festival d'Avignon in France and then staged in the famous metropoly house in New York at the request of the Met. After the play was rejected by the institution, Wilson rented the event location for 90,000 US dollars. A second performance was booked after the first show was sold out. “It was a crazy mix of people who appeared, traditional opera goals and people who had never been before,” said Wilson The guardian 2012. “Nevertheless, we really owed ourselves in both years in both years.”