William Forsythe
choreographer
Born in New York City in 1949, Forsythe first danced with the Joffrey Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet, where he became house choreographer in 1976. In 1984, he began his 20-year tenure as director of Ballett Frankfurt, with whom 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 dissolution of Ballett Frankfurt in 2004, Forsythe formed a new ensemble, The Forsythe Company, which he directed from 2005 to 2015. In recent years, Forsythe has created works for the Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris, the Boston Ballet and the English National Ballet, among others, as well as A Quiet Evening of Dance, produced by Sadler's Wells Theatre (London), and The Barre Project (Blake Works II) for the digital space. Forsythe has also increasingly developed performance, film and installation works as commissions. These works, which he calls ‘Choreographic Objects’, have been shown at the Louvre in Paris, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Tate Modern in London, New York's MoMA and the Venice Biennale, among others. In collaboration with media specialists and educators, Forsythe has developed new, innovative approaches to dance documentation, research and teaching.
Forsythe created Joyleen gets up, gets down, goes out for the Bavarian State Opera Ballet in 1980. The Bayerisches Staatsballett presented Artifact II in 1998, the second detail in 1999, Limb's Theorem in 2004 and the four-part version of Artifact in 2010.
(Information as of March 2025)