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ROBERT WILSON / MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV Fri, Nov 18 LETTER TO A MAN Sat, Nov 19 8PM Direction, set design, lighting concept — Robert Wilson with — Mikhail Baryshnikov Royce Hall Based on the Diary of Text by Christian Dumais-Lvowski The performance is in English and Russian with English subtitles Dramaturgy — Darryl Pinckney Music — Hal Willner RUNNING TIME Costumes — Jacques Reynaud Approximately 70 minutes, Collaboration to movements and spoken text — no intermission Lighting design — A.J. Weissbard Associate set design — Annick Lavallée-Benny CAP UCLA SPONSOR Associate director — Nicola Panzer CAP UCLA’s presentation made possible Sound design — Nick Sagar / Ella Wahlström by the George C. Perkins Fund and the Video design — Tomek Jeziorski Merle & Peter Mullin Endowment for Assistant director — Fani Sarantari the Performing Arts. Generous support Stage manager — Thaiz Bozano provided by Diane Levine and Bob Wass Stage engineer — Mauro Farina Technical director — Reinhard Bichsel Robert Wilson is a CAP UCLA Fellow. Lighting supervisor — Marcello Lumaca The Fellows Program is dedicated to Stage master — Michele Iervolino celebrating masters of their craft Followspot — Fabio Bozzetta through multi-year presentation Assistant costume designer — Micol Notarianni commitments. CAP UCLA Fellows Make up — Claudia Bastia program is supported in part by Robert Wilson’s assistant — Owen Laub Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy. Production delegate — Simona Fremder

MEDIA SPONSOR 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 UCLA In collaboration with Teatros del Canal Madrid, Les de Monte-Carlo/Monaco Forum and CRT Teatro dell’Arte

A special thanks to The 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 PROGRAM NOTES MESSAGE FROM THE CENTER As Robert Wilson’s staging of the Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky opens, we find Mikhail Baryshnikov as the troubled dancer in Budapest in 1945. “Listen! I am an artist, so are you. We are artists, and therefore He and his wife have found refuge with her family. These are the final we love each other.” -- from The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky 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 This sentence is from Nijinsky’s heartbreaking train of thought extraordinary document of his struggle not to go mad and to understand about performing for, and making small talk with, the wealthy what was happening to him. When he stopped writing his Diary, he patrons he was expected to entertain. He would rather go to locked himself away, as in a tomb. There he remained for more than two , he says, and gather up street artists to dance for them decades, watched over by his wife. But as another catastrophe in Europe and rally their spirits. He wants to tell them the above in the draws to its close, the great artist seems to be coming to life again. We hopes that they will see him for what he is. If they can truly see visit him behind his silence. For Nijinsky, time has stood still. He is alone him, they will know feeling again, and he can be saved. The with his ghosts, especially that of Diaghilev, the impresario who first put wealthy cannot save him with their money, but a fellow artist him on stage before the world. can save him by seeing him, knowing him. ABOUT THE ARTISTS If a painter seeks inspiration from those who came before, he or she can step into a museum. A playwright may delve Born 1948 in , , Mikhail Baryshnikov is considered one of the into scripts. But in the categories of spoken word and dance, greatest dancers of our time. After commencing his career with the Kirov how does an artist mine the archives of their predecessors Ballet in Leningrad, he came to the West in 1974, settling in City in order to create new works? The ephemeral nature of their as principal dancer with American Ballet (ABT). In 1979 he joined performance means, historically, it has been harder to capture. Ballet, where he worked with and Jerome Instead artists must turn to letters, photos, and diaries to find Robbins. A year later he was appointed artistic director of ABT where, new ways of being in dialogue. for the next decade, he introduced a new generation of dancers and choreographers. From 1990-2002, Baryshnikov was director and dancer of Robert Wilson has done just that in this portrait of the troubled the White Oak Dance Project, which he and choreographer Mark Morris artist Vaslav Nijinsky, whose diary and a few photographs--he co-founded to expand the repertoire and visibility of American modern was notoriously difficult to shoot--are all we have to remember dance. As an he has performed widely on- and off-Broadway, as him by. But Wilson is not afraid of tough material. His studies well as in television and , receiving a Tony Award nomination and of artists are at once raw and stylized; paintings of light and a Drama Desk Award for Metamorphosis, and an Academy Award sound and space. nomination for The Turning Point. Other productions include Forbidden Christmas or The Doctor and the Patient, Beckett Shorts, In Paris, Man He’s also not afraid to open up the conversation to other artists in a Case, and The Old Woman. He is currently appearing in two solo in order to tackle a subject. This performance in particular is a theatrical productions, Letter to a Man, directed by Robert Wilson and sort of super-collaboration. He has partnered once more with Brodsky/Baryshnikov, directed by Alvis Hermanis. In 2005, he launched dancer, choreographer, and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov. You may Baryshnikov Arts Center (BAC) in New York City, a creative space for remember their co-creation The Old Woman from our 2014-15 presenting and nurturing multidisciplinary artists from around the globe. season. Tonight’s production was choreographed by Judson Under his leadership as artistic director, BAC’s programs have grown to Dance Theater legend Lucinda Childs, whose creation A Portrait serve up to 700 artists and 22,000 audience members annually. Among (1963-2016) was featured on this season a few weeks ago. Baryshnikov’s many awards are the , the National Childs and Wilson worked together on -- Medal of Honor, the Commonwealth Award, the Chubb Fellowship, the a co-presentation from CAP UCLA and the Los Angeles Opera. Award, and the 2012 Vilcek Award. In 2010, he was given Artists inspire one another, support one another, and find the rank of Officer of the French Legion of Honor. dialogues through art-making. That relationship is something we are proud to foster here. We have been lucky enough to Born in Waco, Texas, Robert Wilson is among the world’s foremost have Wilson as a Fellow for a multi-year commitment, and this theater and visual artists. His works for the stage unconventionally performance marks the end of that arc. Wilson’s prolificacy integrate a wide variety of artistic media, including dance, movement, has given us the opportunity to choose pieces over his time as lighting, sculpture, music and text. His images are aesthetically striking a Fellow that exemplify his ability to create portraits of other and emotionally charged, and his productions have earned the acclaim artists and open up the artist’s dialogue to all of us. of audiences and critics worldwide. After being educated at the University of Texas and ’s , Wilson founded the New York- Although Nijinsky was entering into one of the darkest periods based performance collective “The Byrd Hoffman School of Byrds” in the of his life, the above quote shows that he still knew the mid-1960s, and developed his first signature works, includingDeafman importance of how artists relate to one another. Furthermore, Glance (1970) and A Letter for Queen Victoria (1974-1975). With Philip he was tapped into the primal desire that we all experience in Glass he wrote the seminal opera Einstein on the Beach (1976). Wilson’s times of pain: to be seen, known, felt. artistic collaborators include many writers and musicians such as Heiner Müller, , , , William Burroughs, If you are in pain, know that you are seen. Even if you are not, and . He has also left his imprint on masterworks know that you are welcome. such as Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, Brecht/Weill’s Threepenny Opera, Debussy’s Pelléas et Melisande, Goethe’s , Homer’s Odyssey, ’s Fables, Puccini’s 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 , and an Olivier Award. He was elected to the American collaborations include projects with Robert Wilson, Peter Stein, Luca Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the German Academy of the Ronconi, Daniele Abbado, Marina Abramovic, Bernard Sobel, Peter Arts, and holds 8 Honorary Doctorate degrees. France pronounced him Greenaway, William Kentridge, David Cronenberg, Andriy Zholdak, Shirin Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters (2003) and Officer of the Neshat, Gae Aulenti, Fabio Novembre, Pierluigi Cerri, Richard Gluckman, Legion of Honor (2014); awarded him the Officer’s Cross of the Matteo Thun, Giorgio Armani, Hugo Boss, Ermenegildo Zegna, and the Order of Merit (2014). Wilson is the founder and Artistic Director of The Dance Company. His work has been seen in major opera Watermill Center, a laboratory for the Arts in Water Mill, New York. houses, festivals, theaters, and other sites in more than 40 countries including New York, Los Angeles Opera, Teatro alla Scala Darryl Pinckney (dramaturgy) a long time contributor to The New York Milan, Garnier, Brussels Opera La Monnaie, Review of Books, is the author of two works of non-fiction,Out There: Madrid, Epidaurous ancient theater, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Esplanade Mavericks of Black Literature (2002) and Blackballed: The Black Vote and , Bunka Kaikan , Teatro Municipal São Paolo, Royal Opera US Democracy (2012), and two works of fiction,High Cotton (1992) and, House Muscat; Guggenheim New York and Bilbao, Royal Academy of most recently, Black Deutschland. He has worked on Robert Wilson’s , Petit Palais Paris, Vitra Design Museum, Milan Triennale, Quirinale productions of The Forest, Orlando, Time Rocker, The Old Woman, and of Rome, Kunstindustrimuseum Copenhagen, Shanghai Art Museum; Garrincha: A Musical of the Streets. Aichi World Expo 2005, Milan Salone del Mobile, Venice Biennale, and the . His recent projects include Luca Ronconi’s final work, the Hal Willner (music) is a music producer for , , television, Lehman Trilogy at the Piccolo Theater, the new Armani / Silos exhibition theater and live events, best known as “father of the modern tribute space in Milan, and the stage and light design for King Kandaules at the record” for producing a series of multi-artist concept albums starting Vlaanderen Opera in Antwerp. He was awarded ’s 2014 Golden with Amarcord in 1981 as well as providing “sketch music Mask for best lighting design for musical theater, and the the first IFSArts adaptations” for for over three decades. Letter To award for Lighting Design. A.J. Weissbard is based in Italy and teaches at A Man is his 9th collaboration with Robert Wilson. Previous productions institutions around the world. include The Old Woman with and Mikhail Baryshnikov, The Odyssey, Lulu, The Tower of Babel and Garrincha. Willner has produced Jacques Reynaud (costume design) is a French-Italian costume designer. albums for , Lou Reed, Macy Gray, , Lucinda Since graduating from he has worked in Europe and Williams, Laurie Anderson, William S. Burroughs and many others. Film in the United States, at the Teatro alla Scala in Milano, the Salzburg work include 's Short Cuts and Kansas City, Martin Festival, the Berliner Ensamble,the Lyric Opera of Chicago, Lincoln Center Scorsese’s , ’ Million Dollar Hotel, Gus in NY, Thalia Theatre in , La Monnaie Opera in Brussels and Van Sant’s and Adam McKay’s Talladega Nights. Willner many other venues. His debut as a costume designer was in 1993 in Peer co-hosted the radio show “New York Shuffle” with Lou Reed and worked Gynt directed by Luca Ronconi with whom he also collaborated in 2001 with Reed on his last project The RCA and Arista Collection a 16 at Nuovo Piccolo Teatro in Milan. Jacques has collaborated with Robert CD box set which was just released. Current projects include music for Wilson on numerous productions including Leonce and Lena, Winter’s Oren Moverman’s filmThe Dinner, Dianne Dreyer’s Change in the Air, Tale, Shakespeare’s Sonnets, Lulu, Peter Pan at the , Joseph Ceder’s Norman: the Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York L’Orfeo and Il Ritorno di Ulisse in Patria at Teatro all Scala, The Life and Fixer, a multi artist homage to Mark Bolan & T. Rex. He just began his 37th Death of Marina Abramovic and The Old Woman at MIF. season at Saturday Night Live. Annick Lavallée-Benny (associate set design) was born in Québec Lucinda Childs (collaborator, movement and spoken text) began her (Canada) where she first studied set and costume design. After a few career at the Judson Dance Theater in 1963 where she choreographed years of practice in Montréal working in film and theatre, she engaged into 13 works and performed in works of , Steve Paxton, and contemporary performance making at the Norwegian Theatre Academy Robert Morris. Since forming her company in 1973, she has created over where she completed a degree in scenography. She was awarded the 50 works. In 1976, she collaborated as principal performer and later as Gold Medal for Most Promising Talent at the Prague Quadrennial 2011 in choreographer on the opera Einstein on the Beach by Robert Wilson and recognition of a site specific large scale installation project. Since then , for which she received an Obie Award. Childs has appeared alternating basis between Montreal and Berlin, she works as a freelancer in a number of Wilson’s productions: Maladie de la Mort, I Was Sitting at the meeting point of architecture, visual arts and theatre. In the on my Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating, Quartett, last years, she has collaborated with Robert Wilson on several projects and White Raven. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979 for her dealing with space in various contexts. Amongst the main productions collaboration, DANCE, with music by Philip Glass, and film décor by Sol figure Monteverdi’s opera cycle presented at in Milan and Opéra LeWitt, a production which continues to tour internationally and includes Garnier in Paris, Verdi’s opera Macbeth in Bologna, Life & Death of Marina a new production for Lyons Opera Ballet in the fall of 2016. Since 1981, Abramovic which completed its tour at the Armory on Park, Pushkin's she has choreographed over 30 works for ballet companies including the Fairy Tales at Moscow’s Theatre of Nations, a series of collaboration with Paris Opera Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, and Baryshnikov’s White including the 2013 MTV music awards and video portraits Oak Dance Company. She has worked as choreographer and director for exhibited at Musee du , Garrincha recently created in Sao Paulo 16 opera productions including Orfeo and Euridice for the LA Opera, Zaide and The Old Woman. 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’ Nick Sagar (sound design) Dr Atomic for the Opera du Rhin and Jean Baptiste Lully’s Atys for Opera Recent work includes The James Plays (National Theatre London, Kiel, where she will choreograph and direct a new production of Orfeo and International Tour), Tree of Codes (Manchester International Festival, Park Euridice. In 2016, the Centre Nationale de la Danse in Paris is exhibiting Avenue Armoury New York), Horrible Histories ‘Barmy Britain’ (London her choreographic scores in collaboration with the Thaddeus Ropac West End, UK Tour, Syndey Opera House), Gangsta Granny (UK Tour), Gallery and sponsored by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Lucinda’s Robert Wilson’s Life & Death of Marina Abramovic (New York, , production of Jean-Marie Leclaire’s Scylla and Glaucus will premiere in Amsterdam, Antwerp, Madrid, Manchester) and Old Woman (Athens), Oper Kiel in 2017. Childs is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. Krapps Last Tape (Beijing), A Doll’s House (Edinburgh Lyceum) & Men She holds the rank of Commander in France’s Order of Arts and Letters. Should Weep (Glasgow Citizens) for which he was also composer, Young@ Heart Chorus - End of the Road (Oslo, Singapore, New York, Manchester), A.J. Weissbard (lighting design) is an American lighting designer and Horrible Histories ‘Ruthless Romans’ (Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, artist who has worked worldwide designing for theater, video, exhibition, Abu Dhabi), Tom’s Midnight Garden (UK Tour), Caledonia (Edinburgh permanent architectural installation, special events and fashion. His International Festival), Appointment With The Wicker Man (Edinburgh Fringe Festival) as well as Associate Design roles for their productions ART IN ACTION of 27 (Edinburgh Lyceum), Peter Pan (UK Tour), Blackwatch (Pitlochry) and Wolves In The Walls (New York). Composing the Body/Revolution in Movement Ella Wahlström (sound design) is a Finnish London-based Sound UCLA Library Special Collections will present an exhibit and inquiry station in Designer who trained at Rose Bruford College. Her recent credits our Pop-Up space, featuring original lithographs, prints, programs and other include: Sound Operator on The Encounter (Complicite, Broadway), Nijinsky-related items that provide deeper understanding into the creative Sound design for (Mischief Theatre, London process of a revolutionary artist. West End), The Life (English Theatre Frankfurt), The Bunker, The Join us on the Terrace at 7:15 for a free, pre-show talk with Boris Dralyuk, Frontier and The Capone Trilogies (Jethro Compton, Edinburgh Fringe Executive Editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Boris will explore the social and International tour), Associate Sound Design for Othello (Frantic and cultural landscape that surrounded Nijinsky’s extraordinary trajectory. 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, THE BIRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION THANKS: Southwark Playhouse), Empty Vessels (Rosemary Branch Theatre), Klippies (Southwark Playhouse), Chicken Dust (Finborough Theatre), Shaikha Paula Al-Sabah, American Friends of the Paris Opera & Ballet, Annenberg Foundation, Margery In Lambeth (Spellbound Productions, Southwark Playhouse), Carroll: Arent Safir, Giorgio Armani Corporation, Asian Cultural Council, Aventis Foundation, Agnes B, Dianne B, Berserk (Spindrift Theatre, Drayton Arms Theatre), A Study in Scarlet Maria Bacardi, Gabriele Baer, Magda Baltoyanni & Dimitris Kallitsantsis, Monique & Jean-Paul Barbier- (Tacit Theatre, Southwark Playhouse), Titus Andronicus (Hiraeth, Mueller, Lucienne & Thierry Barbier-Mueller, Richard Bello, Naomi & Irving Benson (in memoriam), Pierre Arcola), Romeo and Juliet (Hiraeth, Upstairs at the Gatehouse), Bergé, Giancarla & Luciano Berti, Marina Berti & Stephen Prough, Karolina Blaberg, Ross Bleckner, Sonja Theatre Uncut (Young Vic), The Revenger’s Tragedy and Henry V (Old Bebber & Martin Brand, Countess Cristiana Brandolini & Antoine Lafont, Michael Braverman, Bridges Red Lion Theatre). Larson Foundation, The Brown Foundation, Maja Hoffmann & Stanley Buchthal, Henry Buhl, Janna Bullock, Valeria Carnevali, Alain Coblence, Bonnie Comley & Stewart F. Lane, Paula Cooper & Jack Tomasz Jeziorski (video design) was born in 1986 in Warsaw. He Macrae, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Louise Hirschfeld & Lewis Cullman, Regula & Beat Curti, Julien De graduated from film directing in National Film School in Lodz and culture Beaumarchais, Christophe De Menil, Baroness Rose Anne de Pampelonne, Michaela & Simon De Pury, studies at University of Warsaw . His own films include documentaries— Beatrice Caracciolo & Baron Eric De Rothschild, Mary Dailey & Paul Desmarais, Helen W. Drutt & Peter Free Flight (2010), Camp (2011)—as well as short features —Cross- Stern, Susan & David Edelstein, Lisa & Sanford Ehrenkranz, Marina Eliades, The Elkins Foundation, Eileen country (2010), Happy Days (2013), Giant (2015)—which have been & Richard Ekstract, Wendy & Roger Ferris, Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Anke & Jürgen screened at major film festivals across the world: Locarno, Vancouver, Friedrich, Lady Gaga, Jolmer Gerritse, Nan Goldin, Barbara Goldsmith (in memoriam), Douglas Gordon, Madrid, St. Petersburg, Tampere, Vienna, Sibiu. Since 2011 he also works Florence Gould Foundation, Claude Grunitzky, Audrey & Martin Gruss, Stein Erik Hagen, Gabriele Henkel, in theatre as a video designer with Robert Wilson—Life and Death of Luziah & Gilles Hennessy, Lisa & Phil Herget, Josefin & Paul Hilal, Phil Hilal, David Hockney, ’s Office of Marina Abramovic (2011), Grace for Grace (2011), Lecture on Nothing Cultural Affairs, Ray Iwanowski, Imad Izemrane, Carola & Bob Jain, Emilia & Ilya Kabakov, Jan Kengelbach, (2012), Das Madchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (2013), 1914 (2014), Wendy Keys, Anselm Kiefer, Lummi U. Kieren, Yung Hee Kim, Calvin Klein Family Foundation, Liz Laverty, Rhinoceros (2015), Faust 1&2 (2015)—and Laurent Chetouane—Das Lisa Lee & Peter Zhou, Annie Leibovitz, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Amalia Dayan & Adam Lindemann, Erbeeben in Chili (2012), Sacre du Printemps (2012). Eugenio Lopez, LUMA Foundation, Begine Piper & Dr. Johann Borwin Lüth, LVMH Moët Hennesy - Louis Vuitton, Louise T. Blouin Macbain, Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation, The Honorable CHANGE PERFORMING ARTS Established in 1989, Change Performing & Mrs. Earle I. Mack, Constantinos Martinos, Giovanna Mazzocchi, Margaret McDermott, Anne Hearst Arts is an independent production company based in Milan, and active McInerney & Jay McInerney, Matt McLennan, Henry McNeil, mediathefoundation, Léone-Noëlle Meyer, worldwide in the fields of live performance, including theatre, dance, Don Morgan, Alexandra Munroe & Robert Rosenkranz, National Endowment for the Arts, Leslie Negley, opera, traditional performing arts, classical and contemporary music, Nancy Negley, Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of and in the visual arts, including installations, exhibitions and cultural Governor Andrew Cuomo and The New York State Legislature, Anna Nikolayevsky, Elizabeth Norwood, events. 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