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    Robert Wilson, Boundary-Pushing Playwright and Director Who Collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, and Lady Gaga, Dies at 83

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    Robert Wilson, Boundary-Pushing Playwright and Director Who Collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, and Lady Gaga, Dies at 83

    Robert Wilson, the pioneering avant-garde playwright and theater director who collaborated with Philip Glass, Tom Waits, Lady Gaga, and more, has died. Chris Green, the executor of Wilson’s estate and the president of the Robert Wilson Arts Foundation confirmed the news to The New York Times, stating that the artist died Thursday (July 31) at his home in Water Mill, New York. Green relayed that Wilson died following a brief illness, but did not give an official cause of death. Wilson was 83.

    Wilson was born in Waco, Texas in 1941. As a child, he had difficulty speaking due to a stammer, so his parents sent him to a dancing instructor named Byrd Hoffman in an attempt to mend his confidence through movement. The decision was pivotal for Wilson; not only did Hoffman help him overcome his stutter, but she also redefined his perception of dance and how a body can maneuver through space. Years later, Wilson permanently relocated to New York after studying architecture and interior design at Pratt Institute and returning to Texas. After settling in SoHo, he started his first New York theater ensemble, christening it 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 delayed motion. KA MOUNTAIN AND GUARDenia TERRACE, a stage piece from 1972, took place over 10 days for a total runtime of 168 hours. Throughout, actors spent hours doing simple tasks like walking across the stage. “I was interested in observing life as it is and how that was special,” Wilson wrote of the performance in 2013. “Someone baking bread or making a salad or simply sipping tea is what I found interesting.”

    Though he wrote and directed plays throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, Wilson’s best-known early work is Einstein on the Beach, a four-act opera he created with composer Philip Glass. The five-hour piece premiered at the Festival d’Avignon in France in July 1976, and then staged at New York’s famed Metropolitan Opera House—but not at the request of the Met. After the piece was rejected by the institution, Wilson rented the venue for $90,000. A second performance was booked after the first show sold out. “It was a crazy mixture of people who turned up, traditional opera-goers and people who had never been before,” Wilson told The Guardian in 2012. “Even so, we ended up in debt, but those performances really established us both.”

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