William forsythe dance technique exercises

dance geometry (forsythe)

William Forsythe’s methods of choreography are strikingly algorithmic and give rise to a style of movement and interaction that is distinctively his own.

This conversation between Forsythe and Kaiser was recorded in and later published in Performance Research, v4#2, Summer

I first met William Forsythe in his kitchen in Frankfurt in The first thing Bill did was to try to explain how he goes about creating new movements.

William forsythe dance technique exercises

He started drawing imaginary shapes in the air, and then running his limbs through this complicated and invisible geometry. As a non-dancer, I was completely lost.

Improvisation Technologies was subsequently published by Hatje/Cantz in spring

Later that year, I suggested that he use computer animation superimposed on videos of himself explaining them to make this geometry visible.