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Throughout her theatrical career she has been directed by, among others, from Strehler, Visconti, Ronconi, Harold Pinter, Susan Sontag, Alfredo Arias interpreting with recognized mastery great characters of classical and modern theater. She has inspired authors such as Ginzburg, Siciliano, Patroni Griffi, Cesare Musatti and Franca Valeri, who have created for her unforgettable protagonists for our stages. from many years she also acts in French and has managed to to introduce some of her heroines, with great success, on the stages of Paris. She has written two plays, Dear Professor and Alcohol, performed for more than 200 performances, and two novels published in France, Rue Ferou and Se souvenir et oublier. The latter also published in Italy from Edizioni Portaparole under the title Ricordare e dimenticare. She has participated to more than 60 films directed by, among others, from Visconti, De Sica, Pasolini, Bertolucci, Bolognini, Brass, Giordana, Techiné and Bunuel._ Stramilano_, nostalgia in music for her city, and_ Ja das Meer ist blau_, poems and songs by Brecht and Weill, shows from she devised, see her in her new role as a singer. For her performances she has received the Ennio Flaiano Award, three Maschere d'oro, four Nastri d'argento, the David di Donatello, the Grolla d'oro, the De Sica Award and the Ciak d'oro. He has been a Grand Officer of the Italian Republic since 2004. In 2009 Robert Wilson directed her in Samuel Beckett's Happy Days. In 2011 she was awarded the title of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et de Lettres. In 2013 she starred in_ The Human Voice/The Beautiful Indifferent_ by Jean Cocteau directed from Benoit Jacquot. In 2014 she was Alice in _Danza macabra_ by August Strindberg directed by Luca Ronconi, a show with which she toured nationally and internationally until 2016. In 2017 she narrated herself in Memorie di Adriana, a stage adaptation from the book Ricordare e dimenticare, a conversation between Adriana Asti and René De Ceccatty, directed by Andrée Ruth Shammah. Also in 2017, he wrote Un futuro infinito. A short autobiography published from Mondadori. In 2018 she plays the role of _Donna Fabia _in the film Installation by Marco Tullio Giordana, from the poem by Carlo Porta.

Born to Newark, New Jersey in 1940, Pat Steir studied Art and Philosophy at Boston University and received a BFA from the Pratt Institute in 1962.

In 1963, she is invited to to participate in her first group exhibition at the High Museum in Atlanta. The following year, through the participation of her work in group exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, she became a key figure among the first women artists to gain prominence in the New York art world.

Best known for her Waterfall series of paintings on canvas, Pat Steir presents her work at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

The ´70s marked the beginning of his limelight through the creation of monochromatic canvases, such as those in the Lannan Collection. from then, his style developed, branching out into the most diverse transformations of abstract painting.

"I wanted to destroy the idea of images as symbols," he explains, "to make the image a symbol of a symbol, I had to interpret it-reconstruct an image and then erase it. ...no image, but at the same time infinite images. Every shade of paint worked as an image."

Pat Steir's retrospectives and exhibitions have been held around the world, including one at the Tate Gallery in London, as well as performances at the Brooklyn Museum and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, which have spanned Europe.

A professor of art at Parsons School of Design and Princeton University, as well as Art Director at Harper & Row Publishing in New York, Steir received the Pratt Institute Alumni Achievement Award in 2008.

Lucinda Childs' career began in 1963 at Judson Dance Theater, where she choreographed 13 works and danced in works by Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, and Robert Morris. In 1973 she founded the company that bears her name and for which she has created more than 50 works, including solos and ensemble works. In 1976 he participated to Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson (for which he won an Obie Award). He participates to several Wilson productions: I Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Was Hallucinating, Heiner Muller´s Quartett, the Video 50 project, l´opera White Raven by Wilson and Glass, Maladie de la Mort by Marguerite Duras, alongside Michel Piccoli. He appears in Adam´s Passion by Arvo Pärt and Robert Wilson and collaborates to Letter to to Man. In 1979 he choreographed the_ Solitaire_, with_ _music by Philip Glass and film adaptation by Sol LeWitt, for the Ballet ofOpera in Lyon. In 2015 he revived Available Light (from 1983, music by John Adams, set by Frank Gehry), presented at the Festival d´Automne in Paris and the Manchester International Festival. Since 1981 he has choreographed works for companies including the Paris Opera Ballet and Les Ballets de Monte Carlo; he has directed and choreographed works including Gluck´s Orpheus and Eurydice (Opera in Los Angeles), Mozart Zaide (Monnaie to Brussels), Le Rossignol and _Oedipe _di Stravinsky, Vivaldi´s Farnace, Händel´s Alessandro and John Adams´s Dr. Atomic (Opéra du Rhin). In 2014, Jean Baptiste Lully´s Atys and Jean-Marie Leclaire´s Scylla and Glaucus made their debuts at the Oper Kiel. He is Commandeur in the French Order of Arts and Letters, and in 2017 he received the Golden Lion from the Venice Biennale and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement.