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A Forsythe Evening
Nederlands Dans Theater 1

William Forsythe galvanized the dance world and was catapulted into the international spotlight with his dynamic approach to the art form. After only a short run during the height of COVID-19, NDT felt it imperative to re-stage A Forsythe Evening that marks a revival of the company’s long relationship with the choreographer. The works Of Any If And (1995), N.N.N.N. (2002) and One Flat Thing, reproduced (2000) are accompanied by music composed by Forsythe’s longtime collaborator Thom Willems.

Run time 100 minutes, incl. 2 intermissions
Genre dance
Language language no problem

In Gesprek Fri December 22

A Forsythe Evening


N.N.N.N. (2002) appears as a mind in four parts: four dancers in a state of constant, filagree connection. Underscored by the subtle, murmured flashes of Thom Willems music, the dancers enter into a complex, intense music making of their own. Their arms, heads, bodies and legs become singular voices, each tuned and in counterpoint to the others. The dancers complex breath score allows them to coalesce into a linked entity of flinging arms, folding joints and a sharp, high sense of time.

N.N.N.N.
(2002) is the work upon which 12 N was based, but never performed due to pandemic conditions. It is now to be seen in its original form with all of its musical structures intact.

Of Any If And (1995) is an intimate and virtuoso duet delineating a relationship between a couple who are framed by two instances of language which evaporate around them. The first instance is a series of enigmatic sentences uttered by two actors from the rear of the performance space, the second, a cloud of small, text-inscribed panels that descend towards the stage. The panels texts are fragments from Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things, written in reverse, in which he described the decomposition of a body.


This is one of a series of works Forsythe composed after the death of his wife in 1994. The duet embodies a seriousness of purpose, a forensic intensity in the performers’ bid to engage with classical technique while deconstructing its usual framework.

For all the hazardous torrent of dancers moving relentlessly around metal tables, One Flat Thing, reproduced (2000) is actually a purposeful chapter in Forsythe's ongoing research into the distension of contrapuntal structure. The work is set up as a linked “machinery” that is created through the interaction of three systems of organization: numerous individual movement themes, a dense system of distributed cueing, and complex alignments of forms and/or movement flow. Although the dancer’s field of action is seriously delimited, the unforgiving maze of tables also offers the unusual possibility of composing interrelated action on three levels.

IN THE PRESS

Trouw

"An evening immersed in Forsythe’s world of dance and its mind-boggling vibrancy."

Credits


N.N.N.N.

Choreography, stage, light, costume designs William Forsythe
Staged by Ander Zabala, Ayman Harper, Cyril Baldy, Amancio Gonzalez
Rehearsal director Emily Molnar, Lucas Crandall
Music Thom Willems
Dancers Jon Bond, Conner Bormann, Chuck Jones, Charlie Skuy, Surimu Fukushi, Barry Gans, Aram Hasler, Theophilus Veselý

Of Any If And
Choreography, stage, light designs William Forsythe
Staged by Stefanie Arndt, Thomas McManus
Rehearsal director Tamako Akiyama, Francesca Caroti
Music Thom Willems
Costumes Stephen Galloway
Text Dana Caspersen, William Forsythe
Dancers Nicole Ishimaru, Luca Tessarini, Nicole Ward, Scott Fowler, Thalia Crymble, Alexander Andison


One Flat Thing, reproduced
Choreography, stage, light designs William Forsythe
Staged by Ayman Harper, Ander Zabala, Thierry Guiderdoni, Cyril Baldy, Amancio Gonzalez
Rehearsal director Francesca Caroti, Lucas Crandall
Music Thom Willems. Live uitgevoerd door Niels Duursma en Niels Mudde
Costumes Stephen Galloway
Dancers Aram Hasler, Surimu Fukushi, Chuck Jones, Charlie Skuy, Genevieve O’Keeffe, Alexander Andison, Madoka Kariya, Conner Bormann, Jon Bond, Anna Bekirova, Sophie Whittome, Thalia Crymble, Scott Fowler, Pamela Campos, Barry Gans, Kele Roberson, Emmitt Cawley, Paxton Ricketts, Aram Hasler, Luca Tessarini, Fay van Baar, Zenon Zubyk, Theophilus Veselý, Nicole Ward, Sophie Whittome, Yukino Takaura, Matthew Foley, Nicole Ishimaru

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