Who is William Forsythe?

William Forsythe was raised in New York. He is linked to contemporary dance having a choreographic work that stems from a "neoclassical" style with exploration in Modern dance codes that have classical ballet vocabulary underneath.

He has created such a wide range of audience with all the mixing of different styles and methods influenced by other choreographers, but has gained mostly the European scene. There is something so precise, yet so freeing about his choreography and style. Not only that, but the perspective in which he creates and develops is so exciting! Some examples include architectural and performance installations by architect-artist Daniel Libeskind. Also his piece "One Flat Thing:Reproduced" is filmed from above to show the use of tables and the different ways in which the body goes through, over and under and how that looks like from different angles.

Forsythe is so interested in the question of, "How does dance work?" By this question, he explores the definition of choreography and the mechanics of it. In an interview with Forsythe that I came across on youtube, he states, "makers of dances are looking at how things are made, the emergence of motion, trying to understand what the decisions are that are being made in order to engender that." Exploring this concept goes deeper in that he also is finding ways to make ordinary people know or understand the depth of what he consideres "the awareness of the dancer" and that dancing is not just something that comes together and "boom!" But it is a complicated sophisticated compositional process.

If you ask me, William Forsythe is someone not to miss!