William Forsythe
Quintett (1993), Trio (1996) and Enemy in the Figure (1989)
Créées par le Ballet de Francfort.
Programme for the whole company.
Show presented with recorded music.
Infos
Mulhouse
La Filature
Strasbourg
Opéra
Intermission included
**Prologue
One hour before each performance, a playwright will give you a short 30-minute introduction.
With the support of Fidelio.
Programme
Quintett
Pièce pour 5 danseurs
Reprise. Créée en 1993 par le Ballet de Francfort. Entrée au répertoire du Ballet de l’OnR en 2017.
Chorégraphie William Forsythe En collaboration avec Dana Carpersen, Stephen Galloway, Jacopo Godani, Thomas McManus, Jones San Martin Musique Gavin Bryars Costumes Stephen Galloway Décors et lumières William Forsythe
Trio
Pièce pour 3 danseurs
Entrée au répertoire. Créée en 1996 par le Ballet de Francfort.
Chorégraphie et scénographie William Forsythe Musique Ludwig van Beethoven Lumières Tanja Rühl Costumes Stephen Galloway
Enemy in the Figure
Pièce pour 11 danseurs
Reprise. Créée en 1989 par le Ballet de Francfort. Entrée au répertoire du Ballet de l’OnR en 2023.
Chorégraphie, scénographie, lumières et costumes William Forsythe Musique Thom Willems
Presentation
How do you describe yourself? — I use classical ballet, the classical system, but not its language. What’s your approach? — It can start from anything, a word, a color, a sound, a space. Then, I create my material: a movement, a light, a sound with an object, an object with a movement, a sound with a light and a movement, sometimes all of those at once. I devise sequences, then I edit them like a film. Do you see a future for classical ballet? — The vocabulary is not, will never be, old: it is how it is used that dates. If its usage evolves, there is no reason why classical ballet should disappear.”
– Interview with William Forsythe, June 1988.
Some forty years ago, the American choreographer William Forsythe was appointed director of the Ballet Frankfurt and with his work Artifact (1984) achieved the first milestone in an artistic career that would go on to innovate the interpretation of and contemporary approach to dance, opening it up to the influence of other disciplines. The Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin commemorates this revolution by uniting for the first time three works by Forsythe created in the 1990s to music by Gavin Bryars, Ludwig van Beethoven and Thom Willems: the mesmerizing “Quintett” (1993), the virtuoso “Trio” (1996) which is making its entry into the company’s repertoire, and the hypnotic “Enemy in the Figure” (1989). An explosive program that celebrates the speed and might of the human body.
