yxi 4,999 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Lady Gaga is “a genius” declares avant-garde American theatre artist Robert Wilson. Wilson, speaking by phone from Austria during his directing of Verdi’s La Traviata at the State Theatre of Linz, is assessing the greats of performance art and experimental theatre. He says Gaga’s depth of feeling was clear as she sat or stood hours at a time while he shot a series of video portraits in London two years ago. Costumed and made up, Gaga struck poses drawn from paintings, such as Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassic The Death of Marat and Jean Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s Mademoiselle Caroline Rivière for Wilson’s Living Rooms series, exhibited at the Louvre in Paris in November 2013. “The concentration, the power she has, it’s total. Would Meryl Streep do that? Would Nicole Kidman? Can Madonna? I don’t know,” Wilson says. Later that year, at 4am in a recording studio, he had Gaga repeat text from Marquis de Sade like a mantra: Coitus, Christ, curses, ejaculation, always the same … “This kid speaks text like a machine gun,” Wilson recalls. “The articulation, it was amazing. She should do Medea.” He eschews “the lie” of naturalism on stage and sees artificiality as “more honest”. Hence he was a perfect fit with Lady Gaga, herself a master of avant-garde showmanship. A few days after Wilson first met Gaga (aka Stefani Germanotta) in 2013, he says she called him for advice for her MTV awards opening number. “She said, ‘Tell me something about theatre’. I said, ‘Well, you know, Gaga, think of the first second, and the last’. ‘OK, thank you, that’s all I need to know’. “She called again two weeks later. ‘Bob, can you tell me something else about theatre?’ I said, ‘The Broadway formula is you start strong and end big’.” But security wouldn’t permit Gaga’s plan to be hoisted into the air above the audience with four drones in her dress. “I said, ‘Gaga. You’ve spent a million and a half dollars on this; let’s fight for it.’ She said, ‘No, no, we’ll do it later, forget it.’ “So instead, she starts with a close up, with a big collar. She looks like a nun. And they pull back, and she’s in a white robe. And in three-and-a-half minutes, she changes everything five times, clothes, hair … At the end, she’s totally nude, except for clamshells on her tits and her private parts. “I said, ‘Wow, Gaga, you learn fast. You started strong, you ended big! You got the first second, and the last!’ She said, ‘Well, thank you very much’.” http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/dec/29/robert-wilson-the-art-my-generation-produced-wont-be-seen-in-50-years Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bayonse 6,525 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 no liess no more parties in LA Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Child 18,997 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 This is brand new information ‘If religion be the cause of disunity, then irreligion is surely to be preferred.’ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan Heart 7,382 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Never getting tired of the praise. They say it's the last song. They don't know us, you see. It's only the last song if we let it be. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Monster Kid 13,140 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 So Volantis was suppose to be part of the performance?!?!? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBNLM 1,640 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 "But security wouldn’t permit Gaga’s plan to be hoisted into the air above the audience with four drones in her dress. “I said, ‘Gaga. You’ve spent a million and a half dollars on this; let’s fight for it.’ She said, ‘No, no, we’ll do it later, forget it.’" just what?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobster 14,604 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 She's very popular among the vampires trust me, I'm one of them, too But I'm only a man and I do what I can. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangerous Man 9,245 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 And she's ONE of the very FEW genius popstars nowadays. She's so well spoken and really creative. Her visions are well-thought. She's truly an intelligent woman. "A little less conversation and a little more touch my body." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaMaisonGaga 23,884 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Still hate MTV and Gaga for letting herself be controlled like this back in 2013. Girl better ****ing kick MTV over lamaisongaga.com Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Child 18,997 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 6 minutes ago, symphonia said: “She called again two weeks later. ‘Bob, can you tell me something else about theatre?’ I said, ‘The Broadway formula is you start strong and end big’.” But security wouldn’t permit Gaga’s plan to be hoisted into the air above the audience with four drones in her dress. “I said, ‘Gaga. You’ve spent a million and a half dollars on this; let’s fight for it.’ She said, ‘No, no, we’ll do it later, forget it.’ “So instead, she starts with a close up, with a big collar. She looks like a nun. And they pull back, and she’s in a white robe. And in three-and-a-half minutes, she changes everything five times, clothes, hair … At the end, she’s totally nude, except for clamshells on her tits and her private parts. MTV CAN GADLY GO **** ITSELF! BYE BITCHES! ‘If religion be the cause of disunity, then irreligion is surely to be preferred.’ ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Gaga 22,898 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Smart boy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LePetitGAGABLover 21,234 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 10 minutes ago, RBNLM said: "But security wouldn’t permit Gaga’s plan to be hoisted into the air above the audience with four drones in her dress. “I said, ‘Gaga. You’ve spent a million and a half dollars on this; let’s fight for it.’ She said, ‘No, no, we’ll do it later, forget it.’" just what?! Imagine the slayage!!!!!!!!!!! Or the lawsuits if something went wrong Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Monster Kid 13,140 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 11 minutes ago, Mobster said: She's very popular among the vampires trust me, I'm one of them, too John Travolta looks so good here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mobster 14,604 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 3 minutes ago, Bad Monster Kid said: John Travolta looks so good here. LMFAO, I thought he could totally join this meme... I'm going to hell anyway, so whatever But I'm only a man and I do what I can. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangerous Man 9,245 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 “I said, ‘Wow, Gaga, you learn fast. You started strong, you ended big! You got the first second, and the last!’ She said, ‘Well, thank you very much’.” Aww, these words make me proud of Gaga even more. "A little less conversation and a little more touch my body." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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