“Waking Dreams,” four iconic works to (re)discover Bob Wilson

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Robert Wilson's contemporary opera " Einstein on the Beach" was performed at the Avignon Festival on July 25, 1976. Philippe Gras/Le Pictorium / MAXPPP
A jack-of-all-trades in live performance, Robert Wilson, known to his friends and fans as Bob, who died Thursday, July 31, at the age of 83, left his mark on the world of the stage with his refined productions that stretched time and space to create a unique experience. A portrait of the artist in four iconic original creations.
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I subscribeIt is a tragic story: that of a black child, who became deaf and mute after catching his nanny killing two children in her care... A seven-hour play, without words, whose slowness becomes the hallmark of the director who was only 27 at the time. A meditative and dreamlike experience more than a story, which overturns the conception of time and space in the theater, and marks the search for an aesthetic emotion, a visual power.
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