Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson "represents not only a vital American sensibility but one of the supreme theatrical imaginations of our time," wrote Robert Marx in Opera News. Mr. Wilson's stage works integrate a wide variety of artistic media, combining movement, dance, painting, lighting, furniture design, sculpture, music and text into a unified whole. His visual images are both aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have earned the acclaim of audiences and critics throughout the world.
Born in Waco, Texas, in 1941, Wilson was educated at the University of Texas, Austin, and at the Pratt Institute in New York City, where he received a B.F.A. in 1966. He studied painting with George McNeil in Paris, and later worked with the architect Paolo Solari in Arizona. In the late 1960s Wilson began creating a series of highly innovative theater pieces in collaboration with his Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds in New York City.
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