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New York Times
31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83
Robert Wilson, the acclaimed theater director, playwright, choreographer and visual artist who mounted wildly imaginative stagings of his own works — including collaborations with Philip Glass, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Lady Gaga — as well as contemporary operas and classic plays from the standard repertory, died on Thursday at his home in Water Mill, N.Y. He was 83. His death was confirmed by Chris Green, the executor of his estate and the president of the Robert Wilson Arts Foundation. He did not specify the cause, saying only that Mr. Wilson died after a brief illness. Tall, soft-spoken and a conservative dresser, Mr. Wilson looked more like an accountant than an avant-gardist with a long résumé of provocative productions. But there was nothing conventional about his sense of the stage. He often said that he was less interested in dialogue and a narrative arc than in the interaction of light, space and movement, and that even when he watched television, he turned the sound off. Early in his career, Mr. Wilson established a working method in which new pieces would begin not with lines of text but with richly detailed visual images, which he would either draw or describe in detail in a 9-by-12 ledger he carried with him. 'I've had the idea for a long time of a room with lots of books, all placed neatly on shelves, and something slicing through the shelves,' was how he described his startling vision for his 1977 theater piece 'I Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating.' In an interview with The New York Times shortly before its premiere, he went on: 'There is a telephone, and a telephone wire. There is a scrim or gauze over the front of the stage, and images are sometimes projected on it.' (In its subsequent review, The Times took note of the work's 'monstrous title.') Dialogue would find its way into the ledger later in the process. It might be fragmentary and repetitious — or there might be none at all. The seven-hour 'Deafman Glance (Le Regard du Sourd),' from 1971, and the 12-hour 'Life and Times of Joseph Stalin,' from 1973, were entirely silent. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
South China Morning Post
08-06-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
Meet Anna Baryshnikov, who plays opposite Kristen Stewart in Love Lies Bleeding: the daughter of ballet dancers, she's acted from a young age and had to bargain with her parents to attend auditions
English director Rose Glass' 2024 film Love Lies Bleeding, a queer romantic thriller, has been described as 'intense', 'edgy' and 'unapologetically horny' by film critics. Anna Baryshnikov takes on the role of Daisy, a stringy-haired girl with big blue eyes, decaying teeth and a huge crush on co-star Kristen Stewart 's character Lou. Anna Baryshnikov stars as the 'lovelorn' and desperate-seeming Daisy in Love Lies Bleeding (2024). Photo: @annabaryshnikov/Instagram For Baryshnikov, whose father is Sex and the City actor Mikhail Baryshnikov , it was love at first sight when she read the script. 'I'm such a sucker for the writing,' she told Obsessed in a March 2024 interview, 'and that script in particular was so tight and so original.' Advertisement The 33-year-old actress describes her character in the movie as 'kind of lovelorn'. 'But there was a creepiness and a kind of sinister quality, and a true desperation to her that felt like something that I'd never done,' she added. Anna Baryshnikov also starred in the TV series Superior Donuts and Dickinson. Photo: @annabaryshnikov/Instagram So who is Anna Baryshnikov, who brings Daisy's complicated character to life in Love Lies Bleeding? Here's everything we know. Both her parents are ballet dancers Anna Baryshnikov is the daughter of professional ballet dancers. Photo: @annabaryshnikov/Instagram Anna Katerina Baryshnikov was born on May 22, 1992, in New York to ballet dancers Lisa Rinehart and Mikhail Baryshnikov. Her father, who originally hails from Latvia, is also an actor and had a recurring role as the charming Russian artist Aleksandr Petrovsky in the final season of Sex and the City.
