Workshop Sessions at Watermill 2015

August 14, 2015

I really enjoyed having over 1,000 guests from the community on the grounds of The Watermill Center last weekend for our Discover Watermill Day. It was a great day and the works shown by our 2015 summer participants were once again superb.

Over the past three weeks, we held workshops for several new productions of mine, among others The Sandman, based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's romantic ghost story; Edda , the collection of Nordic myths and sagas from Iceland; Turandot by Puccini; Amahl and the Night Visitors by Menotti; a project with the Berlin Radio Choir; and a new opera with Paola Prestini for an unusual venue in Australia. I am enclosing a few images. Very excited to work further on all of these upcoming projects.

Photographs by Lovis Dengler Ostenrik and Kristian Kruuser

Thank You: Unlimited Performing Arts, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, Det Norske Teatret Oslo, Teatro Real Madrid, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Montclair State University, Vision Into Art, illy, Change Performing Arts, Anonymous.

Thank you for an amazing Gala last night

July 26, 2015

Thank you to everyone for this year's Watermill Benefit Gala, "The Circus of Stillness" - what an extraordinary night!

Photographs by Kristian Kruuser, Julian Mommert and Lovis Ostenrik

Only 2 days to go until the Watermill 2015 Benefit

July 23, 2015

The Watermill Center Summer Program 2015 has started

July 17, 2015

This week, I arrived at The Watermill Center for the annual Summer Program and met all of this year's exquisite participating artists who have started preparing the grounds. Here are some first impressions.

I am excited to welcome you here for our Benefit Gala, "Circus of Stillness - The Power Over Wild Beasts," and our Open House, the "Discover Watermill Day" (see below). You can also join us for the Scaler Lecture Series, featuring Jessye Norman, Philip Glass, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot, Fern Mallis, Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman and Tom Hennes. See you soon!

LETTER TO A MAN just opened at the Festival dei 2Mondi, Spoleto, Italy - Mikhail Baryshnikov and Robert Wilson

July 8, 2015

Once again Robert Wilson and legendary performer Mikhail Baryshnikov have joined artistic forces. Their third collaboration, Letter to a Man (after a “Saint Sebastian” Video Portrait in 2004 and The Old Woman in 2013), is based on autobiographical texts by Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950), one of the most celebrated dancers and choreographers of his time who danced in Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and created seminal choreographies himself. His diaries, written in less than six weeks in 1919, document the young man’s descent into madness.

In Henry Miller’s words: “It is a communication so naked, so desperate, that it breaks the mold. We are face to face with reality, and it is almost unbearable…had he not gone to the asylum we would have had in Nijinsky a writer equal to the dancer.”

London today

June 19, 2015

After visiting the wonderful Antony Gormley's London studio today with a group of esteemed friends, I am now performing Krapp's Last Tape at the Barbican Theatre. More performances tomorrow and Sunday (see calendar).

Pushkin and CocoRosie

June 16, 2015

Tonight, our new production of Pushkin's Fairy Tales will open at Moscow's Theater of Nations. Working with CocoRosie again has been a lot of fun - Bianca and Sierra are simply the Best! Looking forward to seeing the Russian cast, led by Evgenyi Mironov, sing CocoRosie's music and move through the world of Pushkin's Fairy Tales... Thank you to everyone, and: Break a Leg!

Evgenyi Mironov as Pushkin (Photograph by Lucie Jansch)

Greetings from Amsterdam

June 6, 2015

Getting ready for Krapp's Last Tape at the Holland Festival. - Congratulations to Ruth Mackenzie on her first Holland Festival edition! See you at the Stadsschwouburg tonight or on Sunday, June 7. Love, Bob

Na het overweldigende succes van The Life and Death of Marina Abramović is Robert Wilson terug in het Holland Festival, nu als regisseur én acteur, in Becketts beroemde eenakter over eenzaamheid en desillusie. 6 - juni, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam