Watermill Center | Fifteenth Annual Watermill Summer Benefit

Fifteenth Annual Watermill Summer Benefit

Beginning at 6:00 pm

Saturday, July 26
At the Watermill Center

Beginning at 6pm, the evening will include cocktails, silent and live auction hosted by star auctioneer Simon de Pury, performances, art installations, dinner, special guest performance and dancing. This gala brings together the worlds of theater, art, fashion, design and society for an evening that is as stimulating and edgy as it is fun. The prolific German artist Jonathan Meese (b. 1970) will create a spectacular installation, Marlene Dietrich in Dr. No's Ludovico-Clinic (Dr. Baby's Erzland), inside the Watermill Center's main building, transforming Wilson's pure design into a fantastic, ever-changing assemblage of cult, kitsch, and historical relics.

The Watermill Center was founded in 1992 by theater and visual artist Robert Wilson to foster research into the arts of the stage, to provide young and emerging artists with a unique environment for creation and exploration in theater and all its related art forms, and to develop a strong global network transcending age, experience, social, religious and cultural backgrounds. Watermill supports projects that reflect the approach of its founder Robert Wilson: mixing and integrating different genres and art forms, breaking with traditional forms of representation, developing democratic and cross-cultural approaches. Watermill is about living and working together, about creating your own environment and sharing this experience with others. Watermill houses the archives of its founder and his extensive art collection for research, study and inspiration. The whole of human experience and traditions in all their diversity is the spring board for the avant-garde of the future.

Watermill offers a wide range of programs and activities throughout the year. For the well-known International Summer Program, Robert Wilson invites about 80 artists, young as well as established, for workshops developing his work. From September to June, Watermill provides space and time for 12 to 15 artists' residencies selected by a high-profile committee of practitioners in the arts and humanities. The residencies are complemented by educational programs with schools and other institutions, public events such as open rehearsals and lectures, tours of the building and grounds, and seminars and symposia.

We gratefully acknowledge LVMH for their continued generous support of Watermill.



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