Quintero said that both as a student and a professional he was inspired by Wilson's work. In 2004, Riverbed stage his play The Life and Times of Robert Wilson, at the National Experimental Theater.
"In the show, we used Wilson's aesthetics to explore the mythology of Wilson. He was both the form and substance of our own creative journey," Quintero said.
Wilson's lecture will be hosted (and translated) by another celebrated theater director, Performance Workshop founder Stan Lai. The three-hour lecture will include time for a question-and-answer session.
The management of the National Theater and Concert Hall are justly excited about having Robert Wilson, if only for an afternoon. But they have put together a wonderful year of performances that starts in March after the theaters reopen from their extended Lunar New Year/annual maintenance break.
The line-up ranges from Tadashi Suzuki with Dionysus in March and Wilson's collaborator Philip Glass with the Philip Glass Ensemble Retrospective in April to the Deutsch Oper am Rhein's Der Rosenkavalier with the National Symphony Orchestra in June.
Famed German choreographer Pina Bausch's company will appear September and Cloud Gate Dance Theater is scheduled for November. The anniversary year will be brought to a close by the Performance Workshop's production of Lai's new play Like Shadows in December.
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