Diane Paulus
Diane Paulus
Diane Marie Paulusis an American director of theater and opera who became Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theaterat Harvard University in 2009. Paulus was nominated for the Best Director Tony Award for her revival of Hair, and won the award in 2013 for her revival of Pippin. She has received the 2009 Harvard College Women’s Leadership Award and the Columbia University IAL Diamond Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
CountryUnited States of America
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We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
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Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.
art believe roots
Art cannot be looked at as an elite, sacred event anymore. It has to be embraced as an accessible, popular form, which is what I believe theater is at its roots.
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When you're a freelance director, you are hired to create the art, and it kind of stops there.
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I don't want to be in an art bubble.
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I knew ART was was going to give me this opportunity to expand my role as a director and finally let me have a seat at the table where I could get involved in these policy discussions and producing discussions and, frankly, the financial discussions.
I want an audience that will come sitting forward in their seats.
people work
I give so much of myself to my work; I want to be with people who are going to be there with me.
matter subject
I am always looking for what piece, what artists, what playwrights, what directors, what subject matter is going to catalyze an audience.
politics
Politics, to a degree, is about legislation, administration. You can't be there in the trenches.
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I think actually what keeps the intensity manageable - it's a little counterintuitive - is that it's changing all the time. Every week is different for me.
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I'm sorry, but to ask an audience these days to invest three hours in a show requires your heroine be an understandable and fully rounded character.
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Look at where I lived! Four blocks from Lincoln Center. I used to play in the fountain. And then I started taking dance lessons. I was in 'The Nutcracker' for the N.Y. City Ballet when I was 8 and dancing in 'The Firebird' for George Balanchine when I was 9. Believe me, that's something you don't ever forget.
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I'm always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.