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- born in New
York
- studied
ballet and modern dance at university of Florida
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William Forsythe
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William Forsythe was a member of what companies x2
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Joffrey Ballet Company member
Stuttgart Ballet member, Germany until 1981
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William Forsythe was a director of what company
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Frankfurt Ballet
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William Forsythe developed the...
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The Forsythe Company
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The influences on Forsythe’s work were x3
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Balanchine
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Pina Bausch
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Rudolph Laban
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Forsythe’s choreography
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1. Redefined
the language of ballet in the 21st century
2. Often referred to as a
“deconstructionist postmodernist”
3. Forsythe does not see himself as destroying
ballet.
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How did Forsythe Redefined the language of ballet in the 21st century
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a leader in the transformation of ballet
- pushes the boundaries of
codified classical ballet technique
- creates
movement that goes well beyond the domain of traditional ballet
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One postmodern characteristic of Forsythe’s work:
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decentralised stage
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deconstruction: many critics claim that
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“Forsythe has deconstructed
classical ballet”
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“I think there is an error on the part of many
people who use the word ‘deconstruction’ that they phonetically confuse it with
‘destruction’. They hear the negative and they think and use it that way. - who said this?
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Forsythe
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3. Forsythe
does not see himself as destroying ballet. Rather... x2
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- his early
works were highly influenced by Balanchine
- he calls his
work “ballet-derivative”
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What were Forsythe's similarities/differences to Eduard Lock?
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- only works with dancers trained in classical
ballet
- extremely
virtuostic, complex, athletic
- always
abstract: his work is about the movement, not about the psychological
motivation for the movement.
- often highly
theatrical, extravagant stage sets, complex lighting designs, video projections
- unlike Lock, he
sometimes uses speech on stage
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1. Forsythe has developed a very specific form
of __ __
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Movement improvisation
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- ‘Improvisation Technologies’
- helps dancers analyse what happens when they
improvise
- used as a
means to generate movement.
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1. Forsythe has developed a very specific
form of movement improvisation
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- 1999: Forsyth created ‘Improvisation Technologies: CD rom called
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A Tool for the
Analytical Dance Eye’
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