Robert Wilson Mikhail Baryshnikov

Letter To A Man

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ROBERT WILSON / MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV LETTER TO A MAN

Direction, set design, lighting concept — Robert Wilson with — Mikhail Baryshnikov Based on the Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky Text by Christian Dumais-Lvowski

Dramaturgy — Darryl Pinckney Music — Hal Willner Costumes — Jacques Reynaud Collaboration to movements and spoken text — Lucinda Childs Lighting design — A.J. Weissbard Associate set design — Annick Lavallée-Benny Associate director — Nicola Panzer Sound design — Nick Sagar / Ella Wahlström Video design — Tomek Jeziorski Assistant director — Fani Sarantari Stage manager — Thaiz Bozano Stage engineer — Mauro Farina Technical director — Reinhard Bichsel Lighting supervisor — Marcello Lumaca Stage master — Michele Iervolino Followspot — Fabio Bozzetta Assistant costume designer — Micol Notarianni Make up — Claudia BastiaRobert Wilson’s assistant — Owen Laub Production delegate — Simona Fremder

Fri, Nov 18 Sat, Nov 19

8PMRoyce Hall

RUNNING TIMEApproximately 70 minutes,

no intermission

CAP UCLA SPONSORCAP UCLA’s presentation made possible

by the George C. Perkins Fund and the Merle & Peter Mullin Endowment for

the Performing Arts. Generous support provided by Diane Levine and Bob Wass

Robert Wilson is a CAP UCLA Fellow. The Fellows Program is dedicated to

celebrating masters of their craft through multi-year presentation

commitments. CAP UCLA Fellows program is supported in part by

Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy.

The performance is in English and Russian with English subtitles

A Change Performing Arts and Baryshnikov Productions project Elisabetta di Mambro, Franco Laera — executive producers In association with Huong Hoang Commissioned by Spoleto Festival dei 2Mondi, BAM, Cal Performances, University of California Berkeley, Center for the Art of Performance at UCLAIn collaboration with Teatros del Canal Madrid, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo/Monaco Dance Forum and CRT Teatro dell’Arte

A special thanks toThe Vaslav and Romola Nijinsky Estate Farrah Strauss & Giroux’s “The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky”, Unexpurgated Edition, edited by Joan Acocella Giorgio Armani “Asylum” and “Flooded Room with Chair” courtesy of James Casebere

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PROGRAM NOTES

As Robert Wilson’s staging of the Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky opens, we find Mikhail Baryshnikov as the troubled dancer in Budapest in 1945. He and his wife have found refuge with her family. These are the final weeks of World War II and battles between German and Russian soldiers rage in the destroyed streets. Nijinsky’s mental health had broken down in Switzerland at the close of the First World War. His Diaries are an extraordinary document of his struggle not to go mad and to understand what was happening to him. When he stopped writing his Diary, he locked himself away, as in a tomb. There he remained for more than two decades, watched over by his wife. But as another catastrophe in Europe draws to its close, the great artist seems to be coming to life again. We visit him behind his silence. For Nijinsky, time has stood still. He is alone with his ghosts, especially that of Diaghilev, the impresario who first put him on stage before the ballet world.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Born 1948 in Riga, Latvia, Mikhail Baryshnikov is considered one of the greatest dancers of our time. After commencing his career with the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he came to the West in 1974, settling in New York City as principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre (ABT). In 1979 he joined New York City Ballet, where he worked with George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. A year later he was appointed artistic director of ABT where, for the next decade, he introduced a new generation of dancers and choreographers. From 1990-2002, Baryshnikov was director and dancer of the White Oak Dance Project, which he and choreographer Mark Morris co-founded to expand the repertoire and visibility of American modern dance. As an actor he has performed widely on- and off-Broadway, as well as in television and film, receiving a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award for Metamorphosis, and an Academy Award nomination for The Turning Point. Other productions include Forbidden Christmas or The Doctor and the Patient, Beckett Shorts, In Paris, Man in a Case, and The Old Woman. He is currently appearing in two solo theatrical productions, Letter to a Man, directed by Robert Wilson and Brodsky/Baryshnikov, directed by Alvis Hermanis. In 2005, he launched Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) in New York City, a creative space for presenting and nurturing multidisciplinary artists from around the globe. Under his leadership as artistic director, BAC’s programs have grown to serve up to 700 artists and 22,000 audience members annually. Among Baryshnikov’s many awards are the Kennedy Center Honors, the National Medal of Honor, the Commonwealth Award, the Chubb Fellowship, the Jerome Robbins Award, and the 2012 Vilcek Award. In 2010, he was given the rank of Officer of the French Legion of Honor.

Born in Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson is among the world’s foremost theater and visual artists. His works for the stage unconventionally integrate a wide variety of artistic media, including dance, movement, lighting, sculpture, music and text. His images are aesthetically striking and emotionally charged, and his productions have earned the acclaim of audiences and critics worldwide. After being educated at the University of Texas and Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute, Wilson founded the New York-based performance collective “The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds” in the mid-1960s, and developed his first signature works, including Deafman Glance (1970) and A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974-1975). With Philip Glass he wrote the seminal opera Einstein on the Beach (1976). Wilson’s artistic collaborators include many writers and musicians such as Heiner Müller, Tom Waits, Susan Sontag, Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed and Jessye Norman. He has also left his imprint on masterworks such as Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Brecht/Weill’s Threepenny Opera, Debussy’s Pelléas et Melisande, Goethe’s Faust, Homer’s Odyssey, Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Verdi’s La Traviata. Wilson’s drawings, paintings and sculptures have been presented around the world in hundreds of solo and group showings, and his works are held in private collections and museums throughout the world. Wilson has been honored with numerous awards for excellence, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination, two Premio Ubu awards, the Golden Lion of the

MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER

“Listen! I am an artist, so are you. We are artists, and therefore we love each other.” -- from The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky

This sentence is from Nijinsky’s heartbreaking train of thought about performing for, and making small talk with, the wealthy patrons he was expected to entertain. He would rather go to Paris, he says, and gather up street artists to dance for them and rally their spirits. He wants to tell them the above in the hopes that they will see him for what he is. If they can truly see him, they will know feeling again, and he can be saved. The wealthy cannot save him with their money, but a fellow artist can save him by seeing him, knowing him.

If a painter seeks inspiration from those who came before, he or she can step into a museum. A playwright may delve into scripts. But in the categories of spoken word and dance, how does an artist mine the archives of their predecessors in order to create new works? The ephemeral nature of their performance means, historically, it has been harder to capture. Instead artists must turn to letters, photos, and diaries to find new ways of being in dialogue.

Robert Wilson has done just that in this portrait of the troubled artist Vaslav Nijinsky, whose diary and a few photographs--he was notoriously difficult to shoot--are all we have to remember him by. But Wilson is not afraid of tough material. His studies of artists are at once raw and stylized; paintings of light and sound and space.

He’s also not afraid to open up the conversation to other artists in order to tackle a subject. This performance in particular is a sort of super-collaboration. He has partnered once more with dancer, choreographer, and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov. You may remember their co-creation The Old Woman from our 2014-15 season. Tonight’s production was choreographed by Judson Dance Theater legend Lucinda Childs, whose creation A Portrait (1963-2016) was featured on this season a few weeks ago. Childs and Wilson worked together on Einstein on the Beach -- a co-presentation from CAP UCLA and the Los Angeles Opera.Artists inspire one another, support one another, and find dialogues through art-making. That relationship is something we are proud to foster here. We have been lucky enough to have Wilson as a Fellow for a multi-year commitment, and this performance marks the end of that arc. Wilson’s prolificacy has given us the opportunity to choose pieces over his time as a Fellow that exemplify his ability to create portraits of other artists and open up the artist’s dialogue to all of us.

Although Nijinsky was entering into one of the darkest periods of his life, the above quote shows that he still knew the importance of how artists relate to one another. Furthermore, he was tapped into the primal desire that we all experience in times of pain: to be seen, known, felt.

If you are in pain, know that you are seen. Even if you are not, know that you are welcome.

collaborations include projects with Robert Wilson, Peter Stein, Luca Ronconi, Daniele Abbado, Marina Abramovic, Bernard Sobel, Peter Greenaway, William Kentridge, David Cronenberg, Andriy Zholdak, Shirin Neshat, Gae Aulenti, Fabio Novembre, Pierluigi Cerri, Richard Gluckman, Matteo Thun, Giorgio Armani, Hugo Boss, Ermenegildo Zegna, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. His work has been seen in major opera houses, festivals, theaters, and other sites in more than 40 countries including Lincoln Center New York, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro alla Scala Milan, Paris Opera Garnier, Brussels Opera La Monnaie, Teatro Real Madrid, Epidaurous ancient theater, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Esplanade Singapore, Bunka Kaikan Tokyo, Teatro Municipal São Paolo, Royal Opera House Muscat; Guggenheim New York and Bilbao, Royal Academy of London, Petit Palais Paris, Vitra Design Museum, Milan Triennale, Quirinale of Rome, Kunstindustrimuseum Copenhagen, Shanghai Art Museum; Aichi World Expo 2005, Milan Salone del Mobile, Venice Biennale, and the Louvre. His recent projects include Luca Ronconi’s final work, the Lehman Trilogy at the Piccolo Theater, the new Armani / Silos exhibition space in Milan, and the stage and light design for King Kandaules at the Vlaanderen Opera in Antwerp. He was awarded Russia’s 2014 Golden Mask for best lighting design for musical theater, and the the first IFSArts award for Lighting Design. A.J. Weissbard is based in Italy and teaches at institutions around the world.

Jacques Reynaud (costume design) is a French-Italian costume designer. Since graduating from New York University he has worked in Europe and in the United States, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milano, the Salzburg Festival, the Berliner Ensamble,the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lincoln Center in NY, Thalia Theatre in Hamburg, La Monnaie Opera in Brussels and many other venues. His debut as a costume designer was in 1993 in Peer Gynt directed by Luca Ronconi with whom he also collaborated in 2001 at Nuovo Piccolo Teatro in Milan. Jacques has collaborated with Robert Wilson on numerous productions including Leonce and Lena, Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Lulu, Peter Pan at the Berliner Ensemble, L’Orfeo and Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria at Teatro all Scala, The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic and The Old Woman at MIF.

Annick Lavallée-Benny (associate set design) was born in Québec (Canada) where she first studied set and costume design. After a few years of practice in Montréal working in film and theatre, she engaged into contemporary performance making at the Norwegian Theatre Academy where she completed a degree in scenography. She was awarded the Gold Medal for Most Promising Talent at the Prague Quadrennial 2011 in recognition of a site specific large scale installation project. Since then alternating basis between Montreal and Berlin, she works as a freelancer at the meeting point of architecture, visual arts and theatre. In the last years, she has collaborated with Robert Wilson on several projects dealing with space in various contexts. Amongst the main productions figure Monteverdi’s opera cycle presented at La Scala in Milan and Opéra Garnier in Paris, Verdi’s opera Macbeth in Bologna, Life & Death of Marina Abramovic which completed its tour at the Armory on Park, Pushkin's Fairy Tales at Moscow’s Theatre of Nations, a series of collaboration with Lady Gaga including the 2013 MTV music awards and video portraits exhibited at Musee du Louvres, Garrincha recently created in Sao Paulo and The Old Woman.

Nick Sagar (sound design)Recent work includes The James Plays (National Theatre London, International Tour), Tree of Codes (Manchester International Festival, Park Avenue Armoury New York), Horrible Histories ‘Barmy Britain’ (London West End, UK Tour, Syndey Opera House), Gangsta Granny (UK Tour), Robert Wilson’s Life & Death of Marina Abramovic (New York, Toronto, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Madrid, Manchester) and Old Woman (Athens), Krapps Last Tape (Beijing), A Doll’s House (Edinburgh Lyceum) & Men Should Weep (Glasgow Citizens) for which he was also composer, Young@Heart Chorus - End of the Road (Oslo, Singapore, New York, Manchester), Horrible Histories ‘Ruthless Romans’ (Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Abu Dhabi), Tom’s Midnight Garden (UK Tour), Caledonia (Edinburgh International Festival), Appointment With The Wicker Man (Edinburgh

Venice Biennale, and an Olivier Award. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the German Academy of the Arts, and holds 8 Honorary Doctorate degrees. France pronounced him Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (2003) and Officer of the Legion of Honor (2014); Germany awarded him the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit (2014). Wilson is the founder and Artistic Director of The Watermill Center, a laboratory for the Arts in Water Mill, New York.

Darryl Pinckney (dramaturgy) a long time contributor to The New York Review of Books, is the author of two works of non-fiction, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature (2002) and Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy (2012), and two works of fiction, High Cotton (1992) and, most recently, Black Deutschland. He has worked on Robert Wilson’s productions of The Forest, Orlando, Time Rocker, The Old Woman, and Garrincha: A Musical of the Streets.

Hal Willner (music) is a music producer for albums, films, television, theater and live events, best known as “father of the modern tribute record” for producing a series of multi-artist concept albums starting with Amarcord Nino Rota in 1981 as well as providing “sketch music adaptations” for Saturday Night Live for over three decades. Letter To A Man is his 9th collaboration with Robert Wilson. Previous productions include The Old Woman with Willem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov, The Odyssey, Lulu, The Tower of Babel and Garrincha. Willner has produced albums for Marianne Faithfull, Lou Reed, Macy Gray, Bill Frisell, Lucinda Williams, Laurie Anderson, William S. Burroughs and many others. Film work include Robert Altman's Short Cuts and Kansas City, Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York , Wim Wenders’ Million Dollar Hotel, Gus Van Sant’s Finding Forrester and Adam McKay’s Talladega Nights. Willner co-hosted the radio show “New York Shuffle” with Lou Reed and worked with Reed on his last project The RCA and Arista Album Collection a 16 CD box set which was just released. Current projects include music for Oren Moverman’s film The Dinner, Dianne Dreyer’s Change in the Air, Joseph Ceder’s Norman: the Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer, a multi artist homage to Mark Bolan & T. Rex. He just began his 37th season at Saturday Night Live.

Lucinda Childs (collaborator, movement and spoken text) began her career at the Judson Dance Theater in 1963 where she choreographed 13 works and performed in works of Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, and Robert Morris. Since forming her company in 1973, she has created over 50 works. In 1976, she collaborated as principal performer and later as choreographer on the opera Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass, for which she received an Obie Award. Childs has appeared in a number of Wilson’s productions: Maladie de la Mort, I Was Sitting on my Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating, Quartett, and White Raven. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979 for her collaboration, DANCE, with music by Philip Glass, and film décor by Sol LeWitt, a production which continues to tour internationally and includes a new production for Lyons Opera Ballet in the fall of 2016. Since 1981, she has choreographed over 30 works for ballet companies including the Paris Opera Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, and Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Company. She has worked as choreographer and director for 16 opera productions including Orfeo and Euridice for the LA Opera, Zaide for La Monnaie, Le Rossignol et Oedipe, Farnace, and Alessandro, voted “Opera of the Year“ by Mezzo-TV 2013. In 2014 she directed John Adams’ Dr Atomic for the Opera du Rhin and Jean Baptiste Lully’s Atys for Opera Kiel, where she will choreograph and direct a new production of Orfeo and Euridice. In 2016, the Centre Nationale de la Danse in Paris is exhibiting her choreographic scores in collaboration with the Thaddeus Ropac Gallery and sponsored by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Lucinda’s production of Jean-Marie Leclaire’s Scylla and Glaucus will premiere in Oper Kiel in 2017. Childs is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. She holds the rank of Commander in France’s Order of Arts and Letters.

A.J. Weissbard (lighting design) is an American lighting designer and artist who has worked worldwide designing for theater, video, exhibition, permanent architectural installation, special events and fashion. His

Fringe Festival) as well as Associate Design roles for their productions of 27 (Edinburgh Lyceum), Peter Pan (UK Tour), Blackwatch (Pitlochry) and Wolves In The Walls (New York). Ella Wahlström (sound design) is a Finnish London-based Sound Designer who trained at Rose Bruford College. Her recent credits include: Sound Operator on The Encounter (Complicite, Broadway), Sound design for Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Mischief Theatre, London West End), The Life (English Theatre Frankfurt), The Bunker, The Frontier and The Capone Trilogies (Jethro Compton, Edinburgh Fringe and International tour), Associate Sound Design for Othello (Frantic Assembly), JOHN (DV8), Cripple of Inishmaan (Michael Grandage Company). Sound Design for Three Generations of Women (Broken Leg Theatre, Greenwich Theatre), The Ballad of Robin Hood (Tacit Theatre, Southwark Playhouse), Empty Vessels (Rosemary Branch Theatre), Klippies (Southwark Playhouse), Chicken Dust (Finborough Theatre), In Lambeth (Spellbound Productions, Southwark Playhouse), Carroll: Berserk (Spindrift Theatre, Drayton Arms Theatre), A Study in Scarlet (Tacit Theatre, Southwark Playhouse), Titus Andronicus (Hiraeth, Arcola), Romeo and Juliet (Hiraeth, Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Theatre Uncut (Young Vic), The Revenger’s Tragedy and Henry V (Old Red Lion Theatre).

Tomasz Jeziorski (video design) was born in 1986 in Warsaw. He graduated from film directing in National Film School in Lodz and culture studies at University of Warsaw . His own films include documentaries—Free Flight (2010), Camp (2011)—as well as short features —Cross-country (2010), Happy Days (2013), Giant (2015)—which have been screened at major film festivals across the world: Locarno, Vancouver, Madrid, St. Petersburg, Tampere, Vienna, Sibiu. Since 2011 he also works in theatre as a video designer with Robert Wilson—Life and Death of Marina Abramovic (2011), Grace for Grace (2011), Lecture on Nothing (2012), Das Madchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (2013), 1914 (2014), Rhinoceros (2015), Faust 1&2 (2015)—and Laurent Chetouane—Das Erbeeben in Chili (2012), Sacre du Printemps (2012).

CHANGE PERFORMING ARTS Established in 1989, Change Performing Arts is an independent production company based in Milan, and active worldwide in the fields of live performance, including theatre, dance, opera, traditional performing arts, classical and contemporary music, and in the visual arts, including installations, exhibitions and cultural events. Constantly devoting its efforts to creating new relationships with established and young artists, the company explores and encourages the way the various arts forms can be combined to create new and original means of expression in realizing provocative events of the highest quality.

BARYSHNIKOV PRODUCTIONS is designed to bring the distinctive voices of directors, choreographers and artists to the world’s most respected stages. Under this umbrella, the company has produced and toured the White Oak Dance Project (1990-2002), Forbidden Christmas or The Doctor and Patient (2004-2006), Beckett Shorts (2007), In Paris (2010-2012), Man in a Case (2012-2014) and The Old Woman (2013-2015). Current productions include Letter to a Man and Brodsky/Baryshnikov.

THE WATERMILL CENTERFounded by avant-garde visionary Robert Wilson in 1992, The Watermill Center is an interdisciplinary laboratory for the arts supporting young and emerging artists through its year-round Artist Residency Program, International Summer Program, as well as Education Programs, and open rehearsals. The Center also presents exhibitions, public programs, and offers tours of its 20,000+ square-foot building and eight-and-a-half acre grounds and gardens throughout the year. Watermill supports projects that integrate different genres and art forms, break with traditional forms of representation, and develop democratic and cross-cultural approaches. Watermill is about living and working together, creating your own environment and sharing this experience with others. Visit The Watermill Center's web site at watermillcenter.org.

ART IN ACTION

Composing the Body/Revolution in MovementUCLA Library Special Collections will present an exhibit and inquiry station in our Pop-Up space, featuring original lithographs, prints, programs and other Nijinsky-related items that provide deeper understanding into the creative process of a revolutionary artist.Join us on the Terrace at 7:15 for a free, pre-show talk with Boris Dralyuk, Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Boris will explore the social and cultural landscape that surrounded Nijinsky’s extraordinary trajectory.

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