Perspectives on Performance with Gideon Lester, The House is Open: Experiments in Performance Curating

Date: 

Monday, April 9, 2018, 6:30pm

Location: 

Farkas Studio 203, 12 Holyoke Street

 

Gideon Lester

Gideon LesterGideon Lester is Artistic Director for Theater & Dance at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, and Director of the Theater & Performance Program at Bard College. He is also co-curator of Crossing the Line, an annual international arts festival for New York City. A leading curator of contemporary theater, dance, and performance, Gideon has produced and presented performances by pre-eminent contemporary artists from around the world, including Justin Vivian Bond, Romeo Castellucci, Annie Dorsen, Daniel Fish, Neil Gaiman, Ryoji Ikeda, John Jasperse, David Levine, Faustin Linyekula, Ralph Lemon, Krystian Lupa, Geoff Sobelle, Peter Sellars, Kajia Saariaho, Claudia Rankine, Anna Deavere Smith, Geoff Sobelle, Pam Tanowitz, Robert Woodruff, and Nature Theater of Oklahoma, in partnership with leading arts centers, museums, and international festivals. Before coming to the Fisher Center and Bard in 2012, he spent 13 years as an artistic director and dramaturg at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA, directed the A.R.T. Institute's graduate program in dramaturgy, and taught at Harvard. He subsequently taught at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he founded the Arts Collaboration Lab s in association with PS122. An accomplished writer for the stage, Gideon's translations include plays by Marivaux, Büchner, Brecht, and Vinaver, and his adaptations include Kafka’s Amerika, Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire, and Bulgakov’s Master and Margarita. Lester received his B.A. in English Language and Literature from Oxford University, and completed his graduate training in dramaturgy at the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard, where he was a Fulbright and Frank Knox Scholar.

 

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