A Quiet Evening of Dance

William Forsythe

Dates

Prices

5 — 28 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Wednesday - Sunday
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

Onassis Stegi Friends presale: from 6 JAN 2019, 12:00
General presale: from 13 JAN 2019, 12:00

Full price: 7, 15, 18, 28 €
Reduced, Friend & Groups 5-9 people: 6, 12, 14, 22 €
Groups 10+ people: 5, 11, 13, 20 €
Νeighbourhood residents: 7 €
People with disabilities & Unemployed: 5 € | Companions: 7, 10 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@sgt.gr

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”

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    Photo © Carl Fox

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    Photo: Bill Cooper

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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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