William Kentridge is a legend of contemporary art in its most expressionist, constructivist and hobby heritage. Son of the Bauhaus and the Triadic Ballet of Oskar Schlemmer, he is also the master of opera and classical music which he animates as a person, as a pure magician: he has taken music lovers and art lovers in his cosmic whirlwind with Mozart's Magic Flute; he made the modernist burlesque farandole dance in Le Nez by Dmitri Chostakovitch; it has been a dream over time in Franz Schubert's Winter Travel . A man of the collective, from the studio to the stage, he pushed the theater to its extremes with Refuse the Hour at the Avignon Festival, then at the Ephemeral Theater of the Palais-Royal, in 2013, where his virtuoso performers sang their text at towards. Born April 28, 1955 in Johannesburg, William Kentridge is, in short, the eternal child of the "lanterna magica".
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