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William Forsythe Choreographer
Biography
Born in New York and trained in Florida with Nolan Dingman and Christa Long, William Forsythe first danced with the Joffrey Ballet, then the Stuttgart Ballet, where he was named resident choreographer in 1976. During the following seven years, he created new works for the Stuttgart ensemble and other ballet companies throughout the world.
In 1984, he began a twenty-year tenure as Director of the Frankfurt Ballet, where he created pieces like Artifact (1984), Impressing the Czar (1988), Limb's Theorem (1990), The Loss of Small Detail (1991), Eidos:Telos (1995), Kammer/Kammer (2000) and Decreation (2003).
In 2004, Forsythe created a new, more independent ensemble, The Forsythe Company, which he ran from 2005 to 2015. Among the works produced by this ensemble are Three Atmospheric Studies (2005), Human Writes (2005), Heterotopia (2006), I don't believe in outer space (2008) and Sider (2011).
More recently, Forsythe created works for the Paris Opera Ballet, English National Ballet, Boston Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Scala Ballet Company, and for A Quiet Evening of Dance, produced by Sadler's Wells Theatre (London) and The Barre Project (Blake Works II) created for the digital stage.
Forsythe has also created architectural installations and performances. These “choreographic objects” have been presented worldwide in museums and exhibitions. In collaboration with media specialists and educators, Forsythe has developed new approaches to dance documentation, research, and education.
Core elements of his CD-ROM Improvisation Technologies: A Tool for the Analytical Dance Eye, developed with the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and first published in 1999, are now accessible online. Forsythe is an Honorary Fellow at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance in London and holds an Honorary Doctorate from The Juilliard School in New York.
