Robert Wilson Receives 2010 Jerome Robbins Award

Internationally acclaimed Artist, Opera Designer and Director, Choreographer, and Playwright Robert Wilson has been named the recipient of 2010 Jerome Robbins AwarD. Wilson, whose groundbreaking musical works include the multi-national epic "CIVIL warS," "Deafman Glance," "Einstein on the Beach," and "The Black Rider" and whose productions have been staged across the globe, will be presented with the award by The Jerome Robbins Foundation in December in New York.  Given with the monetary prize is a bronze statue, representing one of the sailors from "Fancy Free / On the Town," which was modeled on a figure in the permanent installation by Robin Heidi Kennedy on the Terrazzo Jerome Robbins of the Teatro Nuovo in Spoleto, Italy.

Wilson, who first met Robbins in the 1960s and became fast friends and sometimes colleagues, expressed his gratitude both to the Robbins Foundation and especially to its namesake for providing encouragement and inspiration over the years.

Jerome Robbins, atowering figure in the dance and theater world, established The Jerome Robbins Foundation in 1957 with the intent to support dance, theater and their associative arts. Following the outbreak of AIDS, he directed the Foundation's resources almost exclusively to addressing the AIDS crisis. Before his death in 1998, Mr. Robbins expressed his wish that the Foundation again extend its resources to the performing arts - dance and theater especially, but not exclusively- including what later developed into The Jerome Robbins Award.

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