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Basil Twist is a New York City-based puppeteer who is best known for his underwater puppet show, "''Symphonie Fantastique''".〔(Brantley, Ben "Wash Cycle Dreams, Via Berlioz", ''New York Times'', June 3, 1998 )〕 He was named a MacArthur genius grant recipient on September 29, 2015. ==Life and work== Originally from San Francisco, Basil Twist is a third generation puppeteer. He graduated from the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette in Charleville-Mézières, France. He is founder and director of the Dream Music Puppetry Program at Here Arts Center in NYC, which supports and produces new puppet artists. He was a Fall 2015 MacArthur Fellow at the NYU Center for Ballet and the Arts. Twist has significantly contributed to the art of puppetry since 1998. He creates puppet works focused on their integration with music. His ''"Symphonie Fantastique"'', is performed to the symphony of the same name. Twist's version of "Master Peter's Puppet Show" was created with the Eos Orchestra and later performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.〔("First, a bit of fantasy", ''Los Angeles Times'', September 28, 2006 )〕 Twist's "Dogugaeshi" features original shamisen compositions created and performed live by master musician Yumiko Tanaka.〔(Spangler, Lois, "Dogugaeshi", nytheatre.com, September 14, 2007 )〕 He also directed and designed Humperdinck's opera, ''Hansel and Gretel'', for the Houston Grand Opera and the Atlanta Opera.〔(Ward, Charles, "HGO's ''Hansel and Gretel'': laughs and subversion", ''Houston Chronicle'', December 1, 2006 )〕 In 2010, Twist created the puppetry for the Broadway productions of ''The Pee-wee Herman Show'' and ''The Addams Family''.〔''(STAGE TUBE: Pee-Wee Herman Goes Biking with Jimmy Fallon'' ), ''Broadway World'', October 15, 2010]〕 Twist is known for his original adult puppet mediums and use of abstraction in puppetry. ''"Symphonie Fantastique"'' takes place in a tank of water. In "Red Beads", his collaboration with Lee Breuer and Mabou Mines, he created wind puppetry.〔(Jefferson, Margo, ''A Girl Caught in an Eternal Family Triangle'', ''New York Times'', September 22, 2005 )〕 In "Dogugaeshi" he uses the Japanese art form of sliding screens. Other works include La Bella Dormente nel Bosco, Petrushka, Hansel and Gretel, Master Peter's Puppet Show, the Araneidae Show, Behind the Lid, and Arias with a Twist, among others. He has collaborated with such artists as Joey Arias, Lee Breuer, Pilobolus, Paula Vogel and Joe Goode. He is considered an important theater artist by critics of the ''New York Times'', ''The New Yorker'', et al.〔(Acocella, Joan, "Doll Houses", ''The New Yorker'', April 21, 2008 )〕 He has received national and regional recognition through numerous awards, including an Obie Award and a Guggenheim fellowship, and his work has been presented internationally.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New York News, Food, Culture and Events – Village Voice )〕〔(Lipton, Brian Scott, ''Rinne Groff and Basil Twist Win Guggenheim Fellowships'', ''TheatreMania'', April 10, 2006 )〕〔(Hetrick, Adam, ''Arias with a Twist Will Make European and Screen Premieres'', ''Playbill'', February 2, 2009 )〕 In 2006, he had a solo exhibition at the (Lisa Dent Gallery ) in San Francisco, CA. He is third cousins with Mark Murphy, who is the Executive Director of REDCAT, a contemporary theater in Downtown Los Angeles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Basil Twist」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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