The New York Times visited The Watermill Center ahead of “Limitless Time,” its annual summer festival taking place July 25, fifty years to the day since the premiere of Philip Glass’ and Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach.
This year's Summer Festival, “Limitless Time,” presented by Van Cleef & Arpels, celebrates the life and vision of The Watermill Center’s founder Robert Wilson across two nights on our ten-acre grounds, July 24–25.
Friday's intimate Artist Dinner culminates in a reimagining of Wilson's I Was Sitting On My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating, staged by Charles Chemin, in addition to a performance by Isabelle Huppert.
Saturday brings the festival to life across the grounds with performances, installations, a grazing dinner, and an after party. Choreographer Madeline Hollander creates a response to Einstein on the Beach, and Lucinda Childs performs a speech from the original production. Newly announced: Lou Reed Drones, curated by Reed's longtime guitar technician Stewart Hurwood, where the late musician's own guitars and amplifiers generate an enveloping wall of feedback, and Arlene Shechet's Dawn, a large-scale aluminum sculpture bloom in matte peach and glossy lilac from her "Girl Group" series.
