William Forsythe And The Practice Of Choreography

Author : Steven Spier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781136834905

Get Book

William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography by Steven Spier Pdf

William Forsythe’s reinvigoration of classical ballet during his 20-year tenure at the Ballett Frankfurt saw him lauded as one of the greatest choreographers of the postwar era. His current work with The Forsythe Company has gone even further to challenge and investigate fundamental assumptions about choreography itself. William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography presents a diverse range of critical writings on his work, with illuminating analysis of his practice from an interdisciplinary perspective. The book also contains insightful working testaments from Forsythe’s collaborators, as well as a contribution from the choreographer himself. With essays covering all aspects of Forsythe’s past and current work, readers are provided with an unparalleled view into the creative world of this visionary artist, as well as a comprehensive resource for students, scholars, and practitioners of ballet and contemporary dance today.

Author : Louise Neri,Eva Respini
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783791357966

Get Book

William Forsythe by Louise Neri,Eva Respini Pdf

This stunning and comprehensive book presents acclaimed artist William Forsythe, whose work is at the intersection of performance, sculpture, and installation. Since the 1990s, parallel to his stage productions, Forsythe has developed a body of work he calls "Choreographic Objects". These experimental, interactive works invite the viewer to engage with the fundamental ideas of choreography and extend Forsythe's choreographic explorations beyond the stage and skilled professionals to public spaces and the layperson. This volume considers the full breadth of his oeuvre and features contributions from leading scholars, critics, and theorists in the disciplines of visual arts, choreography, and dance. Forsythe's highly engaging voice shines through in his own writing, which enriches and deepens the scholarly essays in the book. In addition, the book features an illustrated chronology of The Forsythe Company (2005-15), the artist's dance troupe that followed his legendary tenure at Ballett Frankfurt. Generously illustrated, this volume is certain to become a reference book for Forsythe's many fans as well as an invaluable resource for students of visual art, dance, and interdisciplinary practice. Copublished by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and DelMonico Books

Author : Elizabeth Waterhouse
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783839455883

Get Book

Processing Choreography by Elizabeth Waterhouse Pdf

Told from the perspective of the dancers, »Processing Choreography: Thinking with William Forsythe's Duo« is an ethnography that reconstructs the dancers' activity within William Forsythe's Duo project. The book is written legibly for readers in dance studies, the social sciences, and dance practice. Considering how the choreography of Duo emerged through practice and changed over two decades of history (1996-2018), Elizabeth Waterhouse offers a nuanced picture of creative cooperation and institutionalized process. She presents a compelling vision of choreography as a nexus of people, im/material practices, contexts, and relations. As a former Forsythe dancer herself, the author provides novel insights into this choreographic community.

Author : William Forsythe
Publisher : Kerber Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art and dance
ISBN : 3735601995

Get Book

William Forsythe by William Forsythe Pdf

"The exhibition 'The Fact of Matter' marks the beginning of a new chapter in the choreographic oeuvre of William Forsythe (b. New York City, 1949) and takes a programmatic look at the threshold between the visual arts and choreography. Over the past decades, the internationally renowned artist has created an unequalled dance cosmos: Forsythe has developed ground-breaking ballet choreographies, experimental dance pieces, digital dance scores and site-specific installations that unexpectedly turn the viewers into protagonists themselves. He is considered an innovator within the practice of ballet and has influenced generations of dancers to a degree matched by virtually no other artist in the field. The oeuvre of William Forsythe has been associated with the city of Frankfurt am Main for thirty years. It was here that he founded the Ballett Frankfurt in 1984 and The Forsythe Company in 2004. He has received numerous internationally well-known awards andin 2010 was honoured with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale. The exhibition features large-scale installations, including several site-specific works developed especially for this occasion. Atypical characteristic of these works is the organization of movement. The visitors can move freely through their performative exhibition and thus become part of a choreographic arrangement. William Forsythe's choreographic objects grant them access to novel situations, where they themselves become players through interaction with the installations. In this exhibition, Forsythe's performative and space-related choreographic objects enter into dialogue with the museum architecture by Hans Hollein, but also masterpieces from the MMK collection. The latter were selected in close collaboration with William Forsythe according to content-related correspondences as well as formal analogies. Line, movement, sound, compositional structures and aspects of performance in space play a key role in all of these works. William Forsythe has chosen more than 40 works from the collection. A selection has been compiled in this exhibition guide"--Artist's website.

Author : Steven Spier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781136834899

Get Book

William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography by Steven Spier Pdf

William Forsythe’s reinvigoration of classical ballet during his 20-year tenure at the Ballett Frankfurt saw him lauded as one of the greatest choreographers of the postwar era. His current work with The Forsythe Company has gone even further to challenge and investigate fundamental assumptions about choreography itself. William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography presents a diverse range of critical writings on his work, with illuminating analysis of his practice from an interdisciplinary perspective. The book also contains insightful working testaments from Forsythe’s collaborators, as well as a contribution from the choreographer himself. With essays covering all aspects of Forsythe’s past and current work, readers are provided with an unparalleled view into the creative world of this visionary artist, as well as a comprehensive resource for students, scholars, and practitioners of ballet and contemporary dance today.

Author : Anna Leon
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783732861057

Get Book

Expanded Choreographies - Choreographic Histories by Anna Leon Pdf

From objects to sounds, choreography is expanding beyond dance and human bodies in motion. This book offers one of the rare systematic investigations of expanded choreography as it develops in contemporaneity, and is the first to consider expanded choreography from a trans-historical perspective. Through case studies on different periods of European dance history - ranging from Renaissance dance to William Forsythe's choreographic objects and from Baroque court ballets to digital choreographies - it traces a journey of choreography as a practice transcending its sole association with dancing, moving, human bodies.

Author : Senta Driver
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134430949

Get Book

William Forsythe by Senta Driver Pdf

First Published in 2000. Choreography and Dance: An International Journal is concerned with the composition of ballet and related forms of dance performed on stage. The journal covers the techniques and training of choreographers, and the development of choreography together with historical, social, folk and other influences on dance. This is Volume 5, Part 3, focusing on the life of William Forsythe, his life and works in movement design and dance direction, including his time at the Ballett Frankurt.

Author : Jonathan Burrows
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136974588

Get Book

CHOREOGRAPHER'S HANDBOOK by Jonathan Burrows Pdf

On choreography: "Choreography is a negotiation with the patterns your body is thinking" On rules: "Try breaking the rules on a need to break the rules basis" A Choreographer’s Handbook invites the reader to investigate how and why to make a dance performance. In an inspiring and unusually empowering sequence of stories, ideas and paradoxes, internationally renowned dancer, choreographer and teacher Jonathan Burrows explains how it’s possible to navigate a course through this complex process. It is a stunning reflection on a personal practice and professional journey, and draws upon five years’ of workshop discussions, led by Burrows. Burrows’ open and honest prose gives the reader access to a range of exercises, meditations, principles and ideas on choreography that allow artists and dance-makers to find their own aesthetic process. It is a book for anyone interested in making performance, at whatever level and in whichever style.

Author : Martha Bremser,Lorna Sanders
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781136828324

Get Book

Fifty Contemporary Choreographers by Martha Bremser,Lorna Sanders Pdf

A unique and authoritative guide to the lives and work of prominent living contemporary choreographers. Representing a wide range of dance genres, each entry locates the individual in the context of modern dance theatre and explores their impact. Those studied include: Jerome Bel Richard Alston Doug Varone William Forsythe Phillippe Decoufle Jawole Willa Jo Zollar Ohad Naharin Itzik Gallili Twyla Tharp Wim Vandekeybus With a new, updated introduction by Deborah Jowitt and further reading and references throughout, this text is an invaluable resource for all students and critics of dance, and all those interested in the fascinating world of choreography.

Author : Freya Vass
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783031266584

Get Book

William Forsythe’s Postdramatic Dance Theater by Freya Vass Pdf

This book takes choreographer William Forsythe’s choreographic and scenographic processes as a holistic lens through which to view dance as a fundamentally visuo-sonic art form and choreography as a form of perceptual experimentation. In doing so, it reveals how the made worlds within which postdramatic dance is situated influence how choreography is perceived. Resonating with ecological perspectives but also drawing on an extensive range of cognitive research approaches, the volume’s choreo-scenographic perspective emphasizes the importance of considering the expanded scenography of lighting, sound, space, scenic elements, costume, and performer movement when analyzing the sensory and cognitive perception of dance. The volume provides a first book-length cognitive study of both an individual choreographer and the aesthetics of postdramatic theatre. It also satisfies a need for more dedicated scholarship on Forsythe, whose extensive and varied array of groundbreaking ballets and dance theater works for the Ballett Frankfurt (1984-2004), The Forsythe Company (2005-15), and as an independent choreographer have made him a key figure in 20th/21st century dance.

Author : Gabriele Klein,Sandra Noeth
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783839415962

Get Book

Emerging Bodies by Gabriele Klein,Sandra Noeth Pdf

The concept of »worldmaking« is based on the idea that 'the world' is not given, but rather produced through language, actions, ideas and perception. This collection of essays takes a closer look at various hybrid and disparate worlds related to dance and choreography. Coming from a broad range of different backgrounds and disciplines, the authors inquire into the ways of producing 'dance worlds': through artistic practice, discourse and media, choreographic form and dance material. The essays in this volume critically reflect the predominant topos of dance as something fleeting and ephemeral - an embodiment of the Other in modernity. Moreover, they demonstrate that there is more than just one universal »world of dance«, but rather a multitude of interrelated dance worlds with more emerging every day.

Author : V. Briginshaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230272354

Get Book

Dance, Space and Subjectivity by V. Briginshaw Pdf

This book contains readings of American, British and European postmodern dances informed by feminist, postcolonialist, queer and poststructuralist theories. It explores the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity. By focusing on site-specific dance, the mutual construction of bodies and spaces, body-space interfaces and 'in-between spaces', the dances and dance films are read 'against the grain' to reveal their potential for troubling conventional notions of subjectivity associated with a white, Western, heterosexual able-bodied, male norm.

Author : William Forsythe
Publisher : Jrp Ringier
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Choreography
ISBN : UCSC:32106019833836

Get Book

William Forsythe by William Forsythe Pdf

Edited by Markus Weisbeck. Text by William Forsythe. Interview by Daniel Birnbaum.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ballet
ISBN : OCLC:45548017

Get Book

William Forsythe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gerko Egert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780429632372

Get Book

Moving Relation by Gerko Egert Pdf

Moving Relation explores the notion of touch in the realm of contemporary dance. By closely analyzing performances by well-known European and American choreographers such as Meg Stuart, William Forsythe, Xavier Le Roy, Jared Gradinger and Angela Schubot, this book investigates their usage of touch on the level of movement, experience and affect. Building on the proposition that touch is more than the moment of bodily contact, the author demonstrates the concept of touch as an interplay of movements and multiple relations of proximity. Egert employs both depth, using close descriptions and analyses of dance performances with theoretical investigations of touch, with breadth, working across the fields of performance and dance studies, philosophy and cultural theory. Suitable for scholars and practitioners in the fields of dance and performance studies, Moving Relation uses a process-oriented notion of touch to reevaluate key concepts such as the body, rhythm, emotional expression, subjectivity and audience perception.