Forsythe Masterclass

The Re-Workshop takes Ballet Frankfurt/The Forsythe Company's collaborative approach to creation as its starting place, offering two days of workshops on the practices of re-inventing initiated by William Forsythe. Liz Waterhouse will draw from her experience with The Forsythe Company and studies of Philosophy/Performance Studies, to look at the dimension of movement transfer between materials (paper, clothing) and people, as scores. The workshop is intended to complement The Forsythe Company's performance of The Returns at the Holland Dance Festival. 

You can subscribe for this masterclass till Wednesday 25 June 11.00 am

After a physical warmup, this workshop will develop systems of using re-words and materials (clothes and drawings) as movement scores. Dancing together, we will consider: How do these materials suggest or invite us to move? How can we construct motion via layering material-suggestions and suggesting-re-techniques? Participants will try tasks from The Forsythe Company's repertoire and build their own scores in groups. Subtle doses of theory, such as James Gibson's idea of affordance, will be introduced as needed. The workshop will end with discussion of how material and digital tools are being used in contemporary choreographic process. Please bring an extra set of clothes that can be used to create a movement score.