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Jörn Weisbrodt (born 26 January 1973) is a German
“Jorn Weisbrodt named new artistic director of Luminato”
''The Globe and Mail'', Toronto, 22 September 2011. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. and former artistic director of the Luminato Festival, Toronto's annual Festival of Arts and Creativity.Weisbrodt, J.
"Suddenly this summer"
Luminato Festival blog, 5 July 2016. He is currently the artistic director of ALL ARTS,ALL ARTS Staff
"Artistic Director Jörn Weisbrodt On His Vision for the ALL ARTS Streaming Platform and Broadcast Channel"
ALL ARTS blog, 17 October 2018. a streaming platform and broadcast channel from WNET.
“Weisbrodt’s Luminato”
''The WholeNote'', Toronto, 29 April 2014. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. and studied opera direction at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, graduating in 2000. While still a student, he worked closely with directors Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller, Peter Stein (director), Peter Stein, Peter Konwitschny and Robert Wilson (director), Robert Wilson.Gooding, Wayne
“Jorn Weisbrodt”
''Opera Canada'', Toronto, 1 January 2012. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. He became Wilson's personal assistant and also interned at The Watermill Center, Wilson's Performance Laboratory in Long Island, New York (state), New York.“Star Talks with Jorn Weisbrodt, the newly appointed artistic director of Luminato in conversation with the Toronto Star's Richard Ouzounian”
''Toronto Public Library'', Appel Salon, part 1, transcript, 23 February 2012. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. It was here that Weisbrodt decided he would rather be an arts facilitator—"I realized that I wasn't an artist, I was an enabler of artists".
''The TAPA blog'', Toronto, 22 September 2011. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. In 2006, Weisbrodt moved to the United States to become Executive Director of Robert Wilson (director), Robert Wilson's company RW Work Ltd. and Director of the Watermill Center. At Watermill he was responsible for developing inter-disciplinary performances and installations and establishing new partnerships with, among others, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Moscow Biennale, Kampnagel Hamburg, the Donaufestival, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Purnati Center for the Arts in Indonesia and Columbia University. He also oversaw the launch of a residency for emerging international artists. Weisbrodt has an international reputation for collaborating with some of the world's leading arts organizations, including La Scala in Milan, the Spoleto Festival, the Barbican Centre in London, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Lincoln Center Festival, the Salzburg Festival and the Manchester International Festival.Leong, Melissa
“Meet Luminato’s new artistic director”
''National Post'', Toronto, 22 September 2011. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. In 2018, Weisbrodt was appointed Artistic Director of ALL ARTS, WNET's new streaming platform and broadcast channel.
Weisbrodt first collaborated with Luminato to host the North American premiere of Rufus Wainwright's opera ''Prima Donna (opera), Prima Donna'' (2010) and the revival of Robert Wilson (director), Robert Wilson's production of Philip Glass' opera ''Einstein on the Beach'' (2012). He was the Festival's Artistic Director from January 2012 to July 2016.
Luminato has encompassed all creative fields from music to theatre, dance, literature, visual arts, film, magic and food. Weisbrodt's vision for the Festival was to create connections between the disciplines and promote collaborations between artists from different fields. He stated, "I don't think a festival today should just invite productions from the international or national touring circuit; it should encourage artists to create something new." He also stressed the importance of pre-performance talks, artist interviews and community outreach in order to better engage a modern audience.Talbot, Michael
“EVENT: Luminato breaks down barriers between artist and audience”
''CityNews'', Toronto, 5 June 2013. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. Luminato's program of events during Weisbrodt's appointment included the North American premiere of Robert Lepage's ''Playing Cards: SPADES'',“Star Talks with Jorn Weisbrodt, the newly appointed artistic director of Luminato in conversation with the Toronto Star's Richard Ouzounian”
''Toronto Public Library'', Appel Salon, part 3, transcript. 23 February 2012. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. Joni Mitchell's 70th birthday tribute concert ''A Portrait in Song'', the North American premiere of Robert Wilson (director), Robert Wilson's ''The Life and Death of Marina Abramović'' and the world premiere of ''Marina Abramović Institute—Prototype'', the world premiere of Ronnie Burkett's ''Daisy Theatre'', Pina Bausch's ''Kontakthof'' by Tanztheater Wuppertal, a retrospective of avant-garde artist Matthew Barney, the world premiere of Kid Koala's ''Nufonia Must Fall'', the world premieres of Terence Koh's ''tomorrow's snow'' and ''a way to the light'', the Canadian premiere of ''Paradisiacal Rites'' by Saint Genet and the world premiere of ''If I Loved You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway, If I Loved You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway—An Evening of Love Duets''. Weisbrodt believed that Toronto was on the verge of becoming a city of global and cultural importance and that the Festival could attract artists to live and work in it—"I would love to be [...] part of making something really extraordinary here," he said.
Weisbrodt married his partner, singer-songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright, in Montauk, New York, Montauk, Long Island, in August 2012. They have a daughter, in a "parenting partnership" with friend Lorca Cohen, daughter of Leonard Cohen.Michaels, Sean
“Hallelujah! Rufus Wainwright has baby with Leonard Cohen’s daughter”
''The Guardian'', London, 21 February 2011. Retrieved on 24 June 2014.
''The Watermill Center—A Laboratory for Performance: Robert Wilson's Legacy''
(Stuttgart: Daco Verlag, 2012).
Jörn Weisbrodt's blog on the Luminato Festival's website
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The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...
Adams, James“Jorn Weisbrodt named new artistic director of Luminato”
''The Globe and Mail'', Toronto, 22 September 2011. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. and former artistic director of the Luminato Festival, Toronto's annual Festival of Arts and Creativity.Weisbrodt, J.
"Suddenly this summer"
Luminato Festival blog, 5 July 2016. He is currently the artistic director of ALL ARTS,ALL ARTS Staff
"Artistic Director Jörn Weisbrodt On His Vision for the ALL ARTS Streaming Platform and Broadcast Channel"
ALL ARTS blog, 17 October 2018. a streaming platform and broadcast channel from WNET.
Early life and education
Weisbrodt was born in HamburgCitron, Paula“Weisbrodt’s Luminato”
''The WholeNote'', Toronto, 29 April 2014. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. and studied opera direction at the Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory in Berlin, graduating in 2000. While still a student, he worked closely with directors Ruth Berghaus, Heiner Müller, Peter Stein (director), Peter Stein, Peter Konwitschny and Robert Wilson (director), Robert Wilson.Gooding, Wayne
“Jorn Weisbrodt”
''Opera Canada'', Toronto, 1 January 2012. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. He became Wilson's personal assistant and also interned at The Watermill Center, Wilson's Performance Laboratory in Long Island, New York (state), New York.“Star Talks with Jorn Weisbrodt, the newly appointed artistic director of Luminato in conversation with the Toronto Star's Richard Ouzounian”
''Toronto Public Library'', Appel Salon, part 1, transcript, 23 February 2012. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. It was here that Weisbrodt decided he would rather be an arts facilitator—"I realized that I wasn't an artist, I was an enabler of artists".
Career
After his graduation, Weisbrodt worked for management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and held a number of positions in Germany, including Assistant Director at Deutsches Theater (Berlin), Deutsches Theater, co-founder of Zwischenpalastnutzung and Artistic Production Director at the Berlin State Opera.“Announcement: Jorn Weisbrodt Announced As New Artistic Director, Luminato”''The TAPA blog'', Toronto, 22 September 2011. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. In 2006, Weisbrodt moved to the United States to become Executive Director of Robert Wilson (director), Robert Wilson's company RW Work Ltd. and Director of the Watermill Center. At Watermill he was responsible for developing inter-disciplinary performances and installations and establishing new partnerships with, among others, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Moscow Biennale, Kampnagel Hamburg, the Donaufestival, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Purnati Center for the Arts in Indonesia and Columbia University. He also oversaw the launch of a residency for emerging international artists. Weisbrodt has an international reputation for collaborating with some of the world's leading arts organizations, including La Scala in Milan, the Spoleto Festival, the Barbican Centre in London, the Bolshoi Theatre, the Lincoln Center Festival, the Salzburg Festival and the Manchester International Festival.Leong, Melissa
“Meet Luminato’s new artistic director”
''National Post'', Toronto, 22 September 2011. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. In 2018, Weisbrodt was appointed Artistic Director of ALL ARTS, WNET's new streaming platform and broadcast channel.
Luminato Festival
Weisbrodt first collaborated with Luminato to host the North American premiere of Rufus Wainwright's opera ''Prima Donna (opera), Prima Donna'' (2010) and the revival of Robert Wilson (director), Robert Wilson's production of Philip Glass' opera ''Einstein on the Beach'' (2012). He was the Festival's Artistic Director from January 2012 to July 2016.
Luminato has encompassed all creative fields from music to theatre, dance, literature, visual arts, film, magic and food. Weisbrodt's vision for the Festival was to create connections between the disciplines and promote collaborations between artists from different fields. He stated, "I don't think a festival today should just invite productions from the international or national touring circuit; it should encourage artists to create something new." He also stressed the importance of pre-performance talks, artist interviews and community outreach in order to better engage a modern audience.Talbot, Michael“EVENT: Luminato breaks down barriers between artist and audience”
''CityNews'', Toronto, 5 June 2013. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. Luminato's program of events during Weisbrodt's appointment included the North American premiere of Robert Lepage's ''Playing Cards: SPADES'',“Star Talks with Jorn Weisbrodt, the newly appointed artistic director of Luminato in conversation with the Toronto Star's Richard Ouzounian”
''Toronto Public Library'', Appel Salon, part 3, transcript. 23 February 2012. Retrieved on 24 June 2014. Joni Mitchell's 70th birthday tribute concert ''A Portrait in Song'', the North American premiere of Robert Wilson (director), Robert Wilson's ''The Life and Death of Marina Abramović'' and the world premiere of ''Marina Abramović Institute—Prototype'', the world premiere of Ronnie Burkett's ''Daisy Theatre'', Pina Bausch's ''Kontakthof'' by Tanztheater Wuppertal, a retrospective of avant-garde artist Matthew Barney, the world premiere of Kid Koala's ''Nufonia Must Fall'', the world premieres of Terence Koh's ''tomorrow's snow'' and ''a way to the light'', the Canadian premiere of ''Paradisiacal Rites'' by Saint Genet and the world premiere of ''If I Loved You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway, If I Loved You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway—An Evening of Love Duets''. Weisbrodt believed that Toronto was on the verge of becoming a city of global and cultural importance and that the Festival could attract artists to live and work in it—"I would love to be [...] part of making something really extraordinary here," he said.
Personal life
Weisbrodt married his partner, singer-songwriter and composer Rufus Wainwright, in Montauk, New York, Montauk, Long Island, in August 2012. They have a daughter, in a "parenting partnership" with friend Lorca Cohen, daughter of Leonard Cohen.Michaels, Sean“Hallelujah! Rufus Wainwright has baby with Leonard Cohen’s daughter”
''The Guardian'', London, 21 February 2011. Retrieved on 24 June 2014.
Further reading
Maciàn, J. E., Stoker, S. J., & Weisbrodt, J., eds.''The Watermill Center—A Laboratory for Performance: Robert Wilson's Legacy''
(Stuttgart: Daco Verlag, 2012).
References
External links
Jörn Weisbrodt's blog on the Luminato Festival's website
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