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1 month ago

I'd never seen anything like it': Lucinda Childs on the extraordinary worlds of Robert Wilson

I was a dancer and choreographer and I had worked with the Judson Dance Theatre it was all about no music, pedestrian movement, performing in alternative spaces, avoiding all the traditional trappings. Here was Bob, though, in a theatre, with a composer and lighting it was such a contemporary sensibility. I'd never seen anything like it. I met Bob shortly thereafter at a festival, and he talked right away about working together on Einstein on the Beach [with composer Philip Glass].
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