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ROBERT WILSON
STUDY OF ROBERT WILSON'S CREATIVE PROCESS
PhD DISSERTATION BY PEDRO VALIENTE
Study of Robert Wilson's Creative Process - Estudio del proceso de creación en la obra de Robert Wilson (2000) is a PhD dissertation on director/artist Robert Wilson's work (Part 1), and creative process (Part 2).
UNIVERSITY Title: Estudio del proceso de creación en la obra de Robert Wilson. Language: Spanish. Author: Pedro Valiente. Director: José Ramón Pérez Ornia. Program: Audiovisual Creativity and Production. Department: Audiovisual Communication and Publicity. School: Faculty of Information Sciences. University: Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
PhD DISSERTATION presented in December 2000 with a Jury formed by PhD senior professors in the Film/Media field from five universities of Spain. It received the highest mark: unanimous cum laude [sobresaliente cum laude por unanimidad]. Published in 2003 on E-Prints platform by Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Available on academic platforms.
BOOKS: Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts - RW. Arte escénico planetario (2005), published by Ñaque Ed., is the first part of a book series completed by the upcoming Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson’s Creative Process - El tiempo espacio detenido. Proceso creativo de Robert Wilson (2024). The book series is based on the dissertation.
FROM THE AUTHOR
"Over six hundred pages essay took the form of a PhD dissertation. It was a way to dive into contemporary arts in the frame of the avant-garde. For the last decades, Robert Wilson is known as a maverick of opera staging successful productions commissioned by the main houses in Paris and Berlin. Although Wilson is essentially a theater author/director who works with light and movement. Robert Wilson has created an extensive body of visual work including drawings and paintings as well as furniture design, video art, and site installations. Above all, he is the master of light in the performing arts of the 20th century and beyond. Wilson is a great admirer of dancer/choreographer Martha Graham, and a follower of the experimental tradition of The Black Mountain College with figures as painter Robert Rauschenberg and musician John Cage. Wilson appears in the iconic book Theater of Images along with Richard Foreman and Mabou Mines. Robert Wilson belongs to the unique generation that took New York by storm in the second half of the 60s to set ground-breaking languages for contemporary arts until today. Writers Heiner Müller and William S. Burroughs, and musicians as Philip Glass, Lou Reed, and Tom Waits are among his numerous extraordinary collaborators. I could not lock myself in for years into any other world. And besides of my dream to live in the city and study filmmaking, this is why I moved to New York." --Pedro Valiente
WRITING WORK
PhD DISSERTATION ON ROBERT WILSON
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PhD DISSERTION ON ROBERT WILSON I ABSTRACT
PEDRO VALIENTE
Study of Robert Wilson's Creative Process (2000)
The book series is based on the PhD dissertation Study of Robert Wilson's Creative Process by Pedro Valiente registers (2024) 2000+ downloads from 50+ countries on Eprint online platform by Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. I Eprint: eprints.ucm.es/3855
WRITING WORK
BOOK SERIES ON ROBERT WILSON
© The Days Before DDDIII by Robert Wilson I RW. Planetary Performing Arts book / Photo: Pedro Valiente
BOOKS ON ROBERT WILSON I ABSTRACT
PEDRO VALIENTE
Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson's Creative Process (2024)
Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson's Creative Process focuses on the three versions of Death Destruction and Detroit in three decades through three perspectives: DDDI, study of artistic/technical aspects of the production. DDDII, comments and insights from collaborators. DDDIII, first-hand anthropological account of the creative process of The Days Before DDDIII. I UPCOMING
Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts (2005)
Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts was Recommended Book in La Casa del Libro in Madrid [casadellibro.com] and Top 10 Performing Arts Books in Barcelona [alibri.es]. I PUBLISHED: naque.es
THEATER WORK
MULTIMEDIA WORK WITH ROBERT WILSON
© The Days Before DDDIII by Robert Wilson I Photo: Pedro Valiente
THE DAYS BEFORE BY ROBERT WILSON I THEATER
VIDEO DESIGN COLLABORATOR: PEDRO VALIENTE
THE DAYS BEFORE DDDDIII (1999)
Originally named THE DAYS BEFORE: death destruction and detroit III (United States, 120min) is a theater-dance work by Robert Wilson with text by Umberto Eco and Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto, featuring Fiona Shaw and Isabella Rosellini.
NOVEL “If the island rose in the past, it was the place he had to reach at all costs. In that unhinged time he was not to find but to invent the condition of the First Man. He would find that a new language could be born from a new contact with creation. The bay, alas, is too yesterday.” UMBERTO ECO The Island of the Day Before
SYNOPSIS "The third work of a trilogy begun in 1979 in Berlin, with the second part created in 1987, this piece premiered in 1999 in New York City with a cast of almost 40 actors, dancers and singers from all over the world. Mr. Wilson has described the piece as being for him a sort of dreamscape that has as its themes apocalypse and redemption. Each of its twelve scenes tells its own story –the themes came from sources as diverse as the Bible, the tales of Edgar Allen Poe, a newspaper article about an old woman’s suicide, historical incidents. They are unified by Mr. Wilson’s staging and use of visual elements, by the text taken from Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before, and by the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto. Additional text comes from a series of Tone Poems written and performed by Christopher Knowles. A simple, blond-wood stage reminiscent of the Noh theatre of Japan is transformed by the use of lights, video, painted drops and a host of objects flying in from above – an angel with the head of a deer, a little girl who wears the mask of a huge baby and rides on a comet, to name just a few." --CHANGE PERFORMING ARTS
SYNOPSIS "The third work of a trilogy begun in 1979 in Berlin, with the second part created in 1987, this piece premiered in 1999 in New York City with a cast of almost 40 actors, dancers and singers from all over the world. Mr. Wilson has described the piece as being for him a sort of dreamscape that has as its themes apocalypse and redemption. Each of its twelve scenes tells its own story –the themes came from sources as diverse as the Bible, the tales of Edgar Allen Poe, a newspaper article about an old woman’s suicide, historical incidents. They are unified by Mr. Wilson’s staging and use of visual elements, by the text taken from Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before, and by the music of Ryuichi Sakamoto. Additional text comes from a series of Tone Poems written and performed by Christopher Knowles. A simple, blond-wood stage reminiscent of the Noh theatre of Japan is transformed by the use of lights, video, painted drops and a host of objects flying in from above – an angel with the head of a deer, a little girl who wears the mask of a huge baby and rides on a comet, to name just a few." --CHANGE PERFORMING ARTS
CREW Conceived/designed/directed by Robert Wilson I Text: Umberto Eco (The Island of the Day Before), Christopher Knowles (Tone Poems) I Music: Ryuichi Sakamoto I Choreography: Suzushi Hanayagi I Costumes/makeup: Jacques Reynaud I Light: A.J. Weissbard I Set: Peter Botazzi I Sound: Peter Cerone I Video: Christopher Kondek I Props: Hans Thierman I Producer: Franco Laera I Producing director: Elizabetta di Mambro I Production stage manager: Sue Jane Stoker I Dramaturgy collaboration: Anna Merenyi, Susie Lim I Assistant directors: Koken Ergun, Urs Schonebaum I Furniture supervisor: Christian Prasser I Props master: Daniela Balsamo I Video design collaboration: Pedro Valiente
CAST Featuring Isabella Rossellini and Fiona Shaw, with Jeremy Geidt, Tony Randall, Semiha Berksoy, Dadon Dawadolma, Arthur Beatty, Elettra Botazzi, Francis Boue, Fritzi Haberlandt, Meg Harper, Makram Hamdan, Marianna Kavalieratos, Christopher Knowles, Restu Kusumaningrum, Keith McDermott, Brian Nishii, Fernando Nogueira, María Pessino, Arco Renz, Elizabetta Rosso, Inés Somellera, Carlos Soto, Tassy Thompson TECH INFO Running time: 105min I Year: 1999 I Theater-dance I Country: US/Italy I A production by Change Performing Arts, Milan co-produced by Lincoln Center Festival, New York I © 1999 RW Ltd.
THEATERS Modena Italy, Teatro Comunale di Modena, Previews, June 1999 New York Lincoln Center Festival, New York, July 7-10, 1999 Madrid Spain, Festival de Otoño de Madrid, November 18-21, 1999 Porto Portugal, Festival PO.N.T.I., December 3-4, 1999 Istanbul Turkey, 12 Istanbul International Theatre Festival, May 27-28, 2000 Santiago de Compostela Spain, Compostela Millennium Festival, August 12-14, 2000
VISUAL GALLERY Synopsis, selected cast & crew I Production photos I Original sketches by Robert Wilson I Original artwork and letters by Robert Wilson to Pedro Valiente I Video design materials by Pedro Valiente I Materials from the Lincoln Center Festival, New York I The New York Press reviews, national & international press
THE DAYS BEFORE BY ROBERT WILSON I CREATIVE PROCESS
PREVIEWS AT TEATRO COMUNALE DI MODENA I PHOTO: PV
THE DAYS BEFORE BY ROBERT WILSON I CREATIVE PROCESS
ARTWORK BY ROBERT WILSON
THE DAYS BEFORE BY ROBERT WILSON I CREATIVE PROCESS
REHEARSALS AT THE WATERMILL CENTER I PHOTO: PV / CREW
THE DAYS BEFORE BY ROBERT WILSON I CREATIVE PROCESS
THE WATERMILL CENTER I VIDEO DESIGN COLLABORATION BY PEDRO VALIENTE
THE DAYS BEFORE BY ROBERT WILSON I CREATIVE PROCESS
VIDEO DESIGN COLLABORATION BY PEDRO VALIENTE
Pedro Valiente pafrticipated as performer in the first out of three Summer workshops to develop The Days Before DDDIII at The Watermill Center, New York.
(1) Book on RW (2) Video work for DDDIII rehearsal in Italy. (3) Pedro Valiente in a rehearsal with Dominique Sanda attended by Susan Sontag and Salman Rushdie at The Watermill Center. The Hamptons, New York. (4) Working materials for DDDIII from Change Performing Arts.
THE DAYS BEFORE BY ROBERT WILSON I SELECTED PRESS
SPANISH PRESS
THE DAYS BEFORE BY ROBERT WILSON I SELECTED PRESS
THE NEW YORK TIMES I INTERNATIONAL PRESS
THE DAYS BEFORE BY ROBERT WILSON I LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL
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LINKS
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BOOK SERIES Suspended Time Space. Robert Wilson's Creative Process I flyingfishwork.com/robertwilson-book02 I behance.net/gallery/138759927/Book-02-I-Robert-Wilson Inaque.es Robert Wilson. Planetary Performing Arts I flyingfishwork.com/writing-book01 I behance.net/gallery/3523253/Book-01-I-Robert-Wilson I naque.es
PhD DISSERTATION Study of Robert Wilson's Creative Process I behance.net/pedrovaliente/gallery/ COMING SOON I eprints.ucm.es/3855
THEATER THE DAYS BEFORE: Death Destruction and Detroit III by Robert Wilson flyingfishwork.com/robertwilson-thedaysbefore I behance.net/pedrovaliente/gallery/10485547/Multimedia/Theater-I-New-York-Robert-Wilson I changeperformingarts.cloud/home/
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