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Forsythe has produced and collaborated on numerous installation works, including ''White Bouncy Castle'' (1997, in collaboration with Dana Caspersen and Joel Ryan), ''City of Abstracts'' (2000), ''Scattered Crowd'' (2002), ''airdrawing|whenever on on on nohow on'' (2004, collaborating with Peter Welz), and ''You made me a monster'' (2005). Installation works by Forsythe have been shown at the Louvre Museum, Venice Biennale, [[Artangel]] in London, [[Creative Time]] in New York, the [[Renaissance Society]] in Chicago<ref>[http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Intro.Peter-Welzin-collaboration-with-William-Forsythe-Whenever-on-on-on-nohow-on-%7C-Airdrawing.90.html William Forsythe at the Renaissance Society]</ref>, and other prominent locations. His short film ''Solo'' was presented at the 1997 [[Whitney Biennial]]. In 2006, a major exhibition of his performance, film and installation work was presented at the [[Pinakothek der Moderne]] in Munich.
Forsythe has produced and collaborated on numerous installation works, including ''White Bouncy Castle'' (1997, in collaboration with Dana Caspersen and Joel Ryan), ''City of Abstracts'' (2000), ''Scattered Crowd'' (2002), ''airdrawing|whenever on on on nohow on'' (2004, collaborating with Peter Welz), and ''You made me a monster'' (2005). Installation works by Forsythe have been shown at the Louvre Museum, Venice Biennale, [[Artangel]] in London, [[Creative Time]] in New York, the [[Renaissance Society]] in Chicago<ref>[http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/Exhibitions/Intro.Peter-Welzin-collaboration-with-William-Forsythe-Whenever-on-on-on-nohow-on-%7C-Airdrawing.90.html William Forsythe at the Renaissance Society]</ref>, and other prominent locations. His short film ''Solo'' was presented at the 1997 [[Whitney Biennial]]. In 2006, a major exhibition of his performance, film and installation work was presented at the [[Pinakothek der Moderne]] in Munich.

==Dance Education==
In 1994, Forsythe authored a pioneering{{fact|date=January 2013}} and award-winning{{fact|date=January 2013}} computer application ''Improvisation Technologies: A Tool for the Analytical Dance Eye'' which is used by professional companies, dance conservatories, universities, postgraduate architecture programs and secondary schools. 2009 marked the launch of ''Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing,reproduced,'' an interactive web project developed in collaboration with The Ohio State University which offers extensive interdisciplinary insight into the complex structures of choreographic thinking. ''Motion Bank'', a new four-year project of The Forsythe Company, launched in late 2010. Providing a broad context for research into choreographic practice, the project's main focus is on the creation and publication of on-line digital scores in collaboration with guest choreographers.

As an educator, Forsythe is regularly invited to lecture and give workshops at major universities and cultural institutions internationally. He served as the first Mentor in Dance in the inaugural cycle of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative and currently co-directs and teaches in the Dance Apprentice Network Across Europe (D.A.N.C.E.) program. Forsythe has been awarded an honorary fellowship from the [[Laban Centre]] in London and an honorary doctorate from the [[Juilliard School]].


==Selected works==
==Selected works==

Revision as of 07:36, 18 January 2013

This article is about the choreographer. For the actor, see William Forsythe (actor).

William Forsythe (born December 30, 1949 in New York City) is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Frankfurt am Main in Hessen. He is known internationally for his work with the Ballett Frankfurt (1984–2004) and The Forsythe Company (2005–present). His early dance works are acknowledged[by whom?] for reorienting the practice of ballet from its identification with classical repertoire to a dynamic 21st-century art form, while his more recent works have further extended his research on the performative[clarification needed] potentials of dance and his investigation of choreography as a fundamental[citation needed] principle of organization.

Forsythe has produced and collaborated on numerous installation works, including White Bouncy Castle (1997, in collaboration with Dana Caspersen and Joel Ryan), City of Abstracts (2000), Scattered Crowd (2002), airdrawing|whenever on on on nohow on (2004, collaborating with Peter Welz), and You made me a monster (2005). Installation works by Forsythe have been shown at the Louvre Museum, Venice Biennale, Artangel in London, Creative Time in New York, the Renaissance Society in Chicago[1], and other prominent locations. His short film Solo was presented at the 1997 Whitney Biennial. In 2006, a major exhibition of his performance, film and installation work was presented at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.

Selected works

  • 1976 Urlicht
  • 1983 Gänge
  • 1983 France/Dance
  • 1984 Artifact
  • 1986 Isabelle's Dance
  • 1986 Die Befragung des Robert Scott
  • 1987 In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated
  • 1988 Impressing the Czar
  • 1990 Limb's Theorem
  • 1991 The Second Detail
  • 1991 Loss of Small Detail
  • 1992 ALIE/N A(C)TION
  • 1994 Self Meant to Govern
  • 1995 Eidos:Telos
  • 1996 The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
  • 1999 Endless House
  • 2000 One Flat Thing, reproduced
  • 2000 Kammer/Kammer[2]
  • 2003 Decreation
  • 2005 Three Atmospheric Studies
  • 2005 You made me a monster
  • 2006 Heterotopia
  • 2007 The Defenders
  • 2008 Yes we can't
  • 2008 I Don't Believe in Outer Space
  • 2009 The Returns

Awards

Forsythe has been chosen as Choreographer Of The Year several times by international critics’ surveys.[citation needed] Forsythe’s choreography and his companies’ performances have won:

References

  1. ^ William Forsythe at the Renaissance Society
  2. ^ Rockwell, John (4 May 2006). "Forsythe Company: Desire, Loss, Many Rooms and Catherine Deneuve". New York Times. Retrieved 1 July 2011. A review of Forsythe's Kammer/Kammer.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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