Short Bio

William Forsythe (*1949, New York) has been active in the field of choreography for over 50 years. His work is acknowledged for reorienting the practice of ballet from its identification with classical repertoire to a dynamic 21st century art form. Forsythe’s deep interest in the fundamental principles of organization of choreography has led him to produce a wide range of projects including installations, films, and web-based knowledge creation.

Biography Raised in New York and initially trained in Florida with Nolan Dingman and Christa Long, Forsythe danced with the Joffrey Ballet and later the Stuttgart Ballet, where he was appointed Resident Choreographer in 1976. Over the next seven years, he created new works for the Stuttgart ensemble and other ballet companies worldwide. In 1984, he began a 20-year tenure as director of the Ballet Frankfurt, where he created works such as 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). After the closure of the Ballet Frankfurt in 2004, Forsythe established a new, more independent ensemble, The Forsythe Company, which he directed from 2005 to 2015. Works produced by this ensemble include Three Atmospheric Studies (2005), Human Writes (2005), Heterotopia (2006), I don’t believe in outer space (2008) and Sider (2011). Forsythe’s works developed during this time were performed exclusively by The Forsythe Company, while his earlier pieces are prominently featured in the repertoire of virtually every major ballet company in the world.

Projects

FEDORA
VAN CLEEF & ARPELS
Prize for Ballet 2018
Winner

Collaborating Artists

Tanja Rühl

Tanja Ruehl

Lighting designer

Dorothee Merg

Dorothee Merg

Costume designer

Rauf RubberLegz Yasit

Rauf Yasit

Dancer

Germany

Brigel Gjoka

Brigel Gjoka

Dancer

Jill Johnson

Jill Johnson

Dancer

Christopher Roman

Christopher Roman

Dancer

Riley Watts

Riley Watts

Dancer

Parvaneh

Parvaneh Scharafali

Dancer

Ander Zabala

Ander Zabala Gomez

Dancer

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