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Forsythe has outdone himself. Four works by the great choreographer make for a pleasurable evening as the bodies of the outstanding dancers coordinate, fly, find themselves again—in other words, dance—on an empty stage with no sound accompanying them except their own bodies.
If anyone could be described as having “electrified” ballet, as having breathed new life into it and transformed it into a dynamic art-form ready to soar ever higher in the 21st century, that person would be William Forsythe.
He creates entire worlds using nothing but the human body, space and time, making dance an unprecedented experience for dancers and audience alike.
The performance, an Onassis Stegi international co-production, includes two new pieces ("Epilogue" and "Seventeen/Twenty One"), two new versions of older works from Forsythe’s repertoire ("Dialogue (DUO2015)" and "Catalogue (Second Edition)", plus "Prologue", an extract from "Seventeen/Twenty One".
Dancers who have worked with him for many years narrate profoundly communicative stories with their bodies, their breathing the only sound accompanying them. Humour, sensitivity, provocation, response. Guiding them: their rhythm and incredible coordination. Like the hands on an invisible clock, they record time, render it visible, expand and contract it by changing space and, ultimately, by opening the secret channel through which we communicate with it.
“A Quiet Evening of Dance”
Parallel Event
Friday 8 February
After performance talk with dancers: Cyril Baldy, Brigel Gjoka, Jill Johnson, Christopher Roman, Parvaneh Scharafali, Riley Watts, Rauf ‘RubberLegz’ Yasit
Chaired by Tassos Koukoutas, Dance Theorist
CREDITS
Choreography
William Forsythe and Brigel Gjoka, Jill Johnson, Christopher Roman, Parvaneh Scharafali, Riley Watts, Rauf “RubberLegz“ Yasit and Ander Zabala
The dancers are
Cyril Baldry, Brigel Gjoka, Jill Johnson, Christopher Roman, Parvaneh Scharafali, Riley Watts, Rauf ‘RubberLegz’ Yasit
Composer/Music
Morton Feldman, ‘Nature Pieces for Piano No 1’, from First Recordings (1950s) – The Turfan Ensemble, Philipp Vandré © Mode (for ‘Epilogue’)
Composer/Music
Jean‐Philippe Rameau, Hippolyte et Aricie: Ritournelle, from Une Symphonie Imaginaire, Marc Minkowski & Les Musiciens du Louvre © 2005 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin (for ‘Seventeen/ Twenty-One’)
Lighting
Tanja Rühl & William Forsythe
Costumes
Dorothee Merg & William Forsythe
Sound Designer
Niels Lanz
Production
Sadler’s Wells London
Co-produced with
Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, le Théâtre du Châtelet and Festival d’Automne à Paris; Festival Montpellier Danse 2019; Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg; The Shed, New York; Onassis Stegi; deSingel international arts campus (Antwerp)
Technicians
Director of technical Productions
Adam Carrée
Production Company Stage Manager
Bob Bagley
Electrician/Relighter
Gerald McDermott
For Sadler’s Wells
Chief Executive & Artistic Director
Alistair Spalding CBE
Executive Producer
Suzanne Walker
Head of Producing & Touring
Bia Oliveira
Tour Producer
Aristea Charalampidou
Producing & Touring Coordinator
Florent Trioux
Marketing Manager
Daniel King
Senior Press Manager
Caroline Ansdell
Wardrobe Supervisor
Miwa Mitsuhashi
First performed at Sadler’s Wells London on 4 October 2018.
Winner of the FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2018
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William Forsythe has been choreographing for 45 years now. He has redefined ballet, transforming it from an art-form obsessed with repertoire into a dynamic, creative art free of all limitations. He is considered the most important choreographer of his generation.
The evening’s seven dancers are among Forsythe’s closest and most trusted associates. Ideal performers, they can provide us with a profound, insider perspective on the physical work of ballet and shed light on Forsythe's life's work.
The program is an international Onassis Stegi co-production.
“Catalogue” was created for two ex-Forsythe dancers, Jill Johnson and Christopher Roman, who created their own company, the DANCE ON ENSEMBLE. Forsythe describes the project as "complex, almost Baroque". In this updated version, it becomes a trio with the addition of the talented Brit Rodemund, who is collaborating with Forsythe for the first time.
“DUO2015” was originally created in 1996 for two dancers who would only use the front part of the stage. Today, it is danced by two male dancers.
The new version was premièred in 2015 and was subsequently included by Sylvie Guillem in her farewell programme. Guillem collaborated with Forsythe at a historic moment of his career on “In the middle somewhat elevated”, which he created in 1987 for the Paris Opera Ballet, then under the direction of Rudolf Nureyev. With its electrifying atmosphere and eccentric equilibria, its pulse and constantly shifting relationships, the choreography would change the course of dance forever and turn both the choreographer and his dancers (Sylvie Guillem, Laurent Hilaire, Isabelle Guérin and Manuel Legris) into instantly-recognizable stars.
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