City of Abstracts

William Forsythe

genre

multidisciplinary
Date

4 - June 28, 2012
Location

Station Amsterdam Centraal

William Forsythe’s choreographic installation City of Abstracts turns the camera on people in town going about their daily business. People crossing the street, entering a museum, waiting on a street corner. Their images are projected on a big screen in the public space. Their movements are transformed into a dance of stretched and spiralled bodies, of heads vanishing and reappearing. As in a fun fair mirror maze, the projected images do not only invite people to watch, but also to move and play along. They are fed back the unnoticed choreography in which they are already engaged and turned into performers in an abstract reality.

dates

June 4 - June 28

Credits

choreographic object of William Forsythe video software development Philip Bußmann production management Julian Gabriel Richter production The Forsythe Company support state of Hesse, City of Dresden, state of Saxony, city of Frankfurt am Main artist in residency at Hellerau European Center for the Arts Dresden, Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt am Main special thanks to Ms. Susanne Klatten in participation with NS, Ngage media, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam thanks to Vapiano, Amsterdam