Robert Wilson, one of the world’s foremost theater designers and visual artists, is coming to the University of Houston this spring. Described by The New York Times as “a towering figure in the world of experimental theatre,” Wilson’s influential body of work employs a diverse range of media including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text, earning widespread acclaim from audiences and critics around the world. As a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Visiting Artist, Wilson will present a lecture detailing his iconic, interdisciplinary career.

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Robert Wilson, one of the world’s foremost theater and visual artists, will deliver the 2023 Laskey Charrette Kickoff Lecture, titled “Two Street.”

The Laskey Charrette honors Professor Emeritus Leslie J. Laskey and his singular approach to design education during his 35-year tenure at Washington University. For this intensive, weekend-long workshop, second-year architecture students work in teams to brainstorm ideas for a given design challenge. Their final designs are exhibited and reviewed, with a jury of faculty awarding prizes. The charrette is presented annually by Studio L in collaboration with the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design.

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The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents New York Theatre Artists for Ukraine: A 12-hour online marathon of readings and conversations with 24 New York theatre institutions livestreaming on the commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Saturday 16 April 2022 at 7 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 10 a.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4) / 5 p.m. EEST (Kyiv, UTC +3).

At 1:00 PM, Robert Wilson will read texts and share his thoughts on the role of an artist in the Time of War.

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The New York Theatre Community will come together for 12 hours on Saturday April 16th, from 10:00 am – 10:00 pm for 24 online readings and conversations on www.HowlRound.com. We will share our outrage at the bombing of the Donetsk Drama Theater in Mariupol in Ukraine where 300 people died while seeking shelter in space that is sacred to all of us.

Using the words of playwrights, poets and novelists we will express and share our deep sorrow in response to this shocking and devastating tragedy of our time. By showing our empathy and compassion we will let the world know that the New York Theatre Community cares deeply about the victims, survivors and families of the Mariupol catastrophe and that Ukraine is on our minds. This is not a fundraiser. We anticipate that listeners from over 20 countries will be tuning in. ​The National Public Broadcasting Station of Ukraine will live-streaming the gathering for all Ukrainians.​

Robert Wilson will speak about his life and his work, and the influences that make his work so very extraordinary. In a second part of the evening there will be a showing of his landmark performance HAMLET: A Monologue.

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Robert Wilson will speak about his life and his work, and the influences that make his work so very extraordinary. In a second part of the evening there will be a showing of his landmark performance HAMLET: A Monologue.

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Symposium about Heiner Müller’s journey to the United States in the 70’s and his observations of American society. Among the guests are Robert Wilson, Ilse Ritter and Jürgen Flimm.

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While preparing his new production Messiah for the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, Robert Wilson will engage in a public conversation with violinist Jennifer Koh

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Described by The New York Times as, “a towering figure in the world of experimental theatre and an explorer in the uses of time and space on stage,” Robert Wilson is an internationally acclaimed director, designer, architect, actor, sculptor and painter. His works, performed on five continents, have won numerous international awards. In a conversation with Alexander Neef, General Director of the Canadian Opera Company (COC), Wilson will talk about directing Turandot, that opens at the COC on September 28. He will also be presented with the 2019 Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Push Forward Lifetime Achievement Award.

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The Faculty of Fine Arts and Music of the University of Melbourne invites their friends, staff, students and alumni to attend this exclusive event, featuring Robert Wilson appearing in conversation with Budi Miller, Head of Acting at the Victorian College of the Arts.

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Robert Wilson in conversation with Jan Landro

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Just before his premiere of Mary Said What She Said with Isabelle Huppert, Robert Wilson will open his universe to the audience and speak about his work and his way of working. Furthermore he will speak about The Watermill Center, the interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts and humanities, founded by Wilson in 1992. For more information and tickets, please check here.

Robert Wilson comes to the Gardner Museum at the invitation of Helga Davis, the Museum's Visiting Curator of the Performing Arts. Helga and Bob, who have collaborated on past projects including the recent world tour of Einstein on the Beach (his landmark opera with Philip Glass), are planning a special performance just for Gardner Museum audiences.

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In an exceptional performance of nearly three hours, director and artist Robert Wilson invites us into his astonishing aesthetic universe. Combining hundreds of striking images from through his prolific career, Wilson provides an intimate self-portrait of his creative process. Mr. Wilson references his landmark original works for the stage such as "Deafman Glance", "A Letter for Queen Victoria", "Einstein on the Beach" (created with composer Philip Glass), "The CIVIL warS", and "The Black Rider", as well as his acclaimed work for the operatic and theatrical repertoire, including his luminous stagings of "Madama Butterfly", "Wagner’s Ring Cycle", "The Magic Flute", Ibsen’s "Peer Gynt" and Heiner Müller’s "Quartett". At the conclusion of the lecture-performance, the audience is invited to explore Mr. Wilson’s ideas further during an informal question-and-answer period. 

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In an exceptional performance of two hours, director and artist Robert Wilson invites us into his astonishing aesthetic universe. Combining hundreds of striking images from his prolific career, Wilson provides an intimate self-portrait of his creative process. 

Mr. Wilson references his landmark original works for the stage such as Deafman Glance, A Letter for Queen Victoria, Einstein on the Beach (created with composer Philip Glass), The CIVIL warS, and The Black Rider, as well as his acclaimed work for the operatic and theatrical repertoire, including his luminous stagings of Madama Butterfly, Wagner's Ring Cycle, The Magic Flute, Ibsen's Peer Gynt  and Heiner Mueller's Quartett. At the conclusion of the performance, the audience is invited to explore Mr. Wilson's ideas further during an informal question-and-answer period. 

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Lecture/Performance by Robert Wilson, this time in a reconstruction of Adolphe Appia's stage and lighting for the Festspielhaus Hellerau, in the framework of the festival "Reconstructing the Future" there. 

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In the midst of rehearsals for The Sandman at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf, Robert Wilson appears on April 9 in a public talk about this production and his theater work in general. The talk will be moderated by Rüdiger Schaper, arts editor with the daily newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. 

Following the talk, guests will be invited to join the vernissage and opening reception for Robert Wilson's exhibition Black and White--Works on Paper and Video at the Galerie Breckner.

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This public discussion with Robert Wilson is moderated by Köken Ergun, with an introduction by Prof. Dr. Dikmen Gürün.

Robert Wilson in a discussion with students of the Hartt School for Music, Dance and Theater, and receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Hartford.

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A Lecture/Performance by Robert Wilson at Hartford University's Hartt School for Music, Dance and Theater.

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"On the occasion of the Festival’s 40th anniversary, Sydney Opera House and Sydney Festival present a special keynote address by acclaimed playwright, director and visual artist Robert Wilson on the place of arts festivals in today’s society. Sydney Festival hosted Wilson’s quintessential music theatre work Black Rider in 2005 under Brett Sheehy. In 2016 the Festival is hosting another Wilson-Waits collaboration, Woyzeck, directed by young German theatre director Jette Steckel."

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Presented by the Prague Quadriennial of Performance Design and Space

This dialogue between long term collaborators will explore the essentially architectural in Robert Wilson’s work. It will investigate his visual and spatial theatre language as a form of sensory communication.

Robert Wilson has changed theatre not solely by bringing architecture on stage but by making theatre architecturally. His works are holistic architectural compositions as constantly changing interrelationships throughout time. Robert Wilson weaves space, light, sound, movement into an open, coarse-meshed fabric allowing the careful listener to explore an endless amount of readings. Robert Wilson has developed an architect's visual and spatial language for theatre.

Serge von Arx, architect and scenographer, had the opportunity to collaborate with Wilson for the last 17 years on over 30 realized and as many unrealized productions for theatre, opera, museum and public space.

This dialogue will explore the essentially architectural in Robert Wilson’s work. It will investigate Wilson's visual and spatial theatre language as a form of sensory communication beyond words and why the best way of perceiving and processing his creations takes place in silence.

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Lecture/Performance by Robert Wilson

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Lecture by Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson will give the keynote speech at this year's Prolight + Sound fair. 

“We are delighted that one of the theatre world’s leading personalities, Robert Wilson, has agreed to speak at the Theatre and Film Colloquium. With lectures by leading experts, the programme underscores the great importance of the theatre segment at Prolight + Sound 2015”, says Prolight + Sound Director Michael Biwer. “Our special thanks go to Florian von Hofen, CTO of Rouge AVE, for making the contact to Robert Wilson and his great help in arranging this extra-special highlight.”

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Robert Wilson, Herbert Grönemeyer, Ann-Christin Rommen and Jutta Ferbers discuss the upcoming opening of Faust Part I and II at the Berliner Ensemble. Presented by Bernadette Schoog.

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Opening of the Forum do Futuro

During the three-hour event, Robert Wilson invites all the participants on a journey to his aesthetic world. Wilson’s career has been exceptionally prolific and his own works are the  main topic of his lecture. Wilson offers an intimate glimpse into his creative process through photos and stories.  

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