Composer Reuben Butchart teams up with acclaimed poet John Carroll and six of New York City's most eclectic multi-instrumentalists to develop and record a contemporary art song cycle for cross-cultural chamber orchestra, electronics, computer sampling, and voices. For this Watermill Residency, poems by Carroll will be shaped into new song [...]
Theater Mitu's DRC (or How I Learned to Act in Eight Steps) is an homage of sorts—one that traces acting's very history. The piece stems from a physical score built from the 1918 Wiene/Mayer/Janowitz silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The company will set the film's arc to the [...]
The acclaimed Corporeal Mime artist performs material from her Three Pillar project, in which she is reviving and documenting historical Corporeal Mime pieces, including two by Etienne Decroux, the originator of the field. Luyten's (and Decroux's) discipline is a reactionary form of theater with a specific and unique vocabulary for [...]
This presentation reveals the fruits of the international, interdisciplinary stage arts collaboration between the American company Real Circus and Denmark's Terra Nova. Entitled Atomic City, the work is directed by Christoph Schletz (Germany) and follows the deteriorating relationship between two families.
Jorinde Voigt works on scores and notations that relate to contexts of our civilization and their environment. They incorporate elements of equal value, some of which are exclusively imaginary, while others can be translated into reality by means of a real action or as a programming structure. Temporally and formally, [...]
Ralf Ziervogel's residency sets out to explore man's revolution with self and meaning. LIFE IS BUT GREAT draws inspiration and content from the spirit of the Watermill Center, through its architecture, collection, and Robert Wilson's vision. Mystical and iconic symbols are created from the objects of our reality and placed [...]
The artists Igor Josifov and Michael Ryan Noble give a performance lecture entitled "Reflections on Originality," in which they explore the roles of the audience and curators in responding to the originality of performance art works. Looking at art as a fundamental aspect of humanity, Igor Josifov and Michael Ryan [...]
Implied Violence presents a miniature scale of their new work, Flinch Not and Give Not Back. This piece was conceived and is being developed at Watermill for a world premiere slated for 2009 in Seattle, Washington. Flinch Not and Give Not Back uses Rilke's "The Lay of the Love and [...]
In the form of a video-essay, the authors intend to explore a unique case of an edifice and a building site (co-) designed by a great artist of theater as a laboratory for his aesthetics. Unawares, The United States of America simultaneously received her first Bayreuth (Wagner), Bauhaus (Gropius), and [...]
The goal of the project "u" is to create and perform an authentic Klingon Opera, here on earth, with a human cast. In order to be able to perform an authentic Klingon opera, we first need to establish its musical system, the tradition of themes and narrative modes, the instruments, [...]