William Forsythe
Improvisation Technologies — The lectures
William Forsythe
A tool for the
analytical dance eye
Improvisation Technologies
Theory
  • William Forsythe
    Choreographic Objects
  • Astrid Sommer
    Improvisation Technologies:
    Just the Basics
  • Nik Haffner
    Observing Motion –
    An Interview with William Forsythe
  • Roslyn Sulcas
    Both a New World and the Old Made Explicit
  • Biographical Notes
Lectures
  • Lines
    • Point-Point Line
    • Complex Operations
    • Approaches
    • Avoidance
    • In General
  • Writing
    • Rotating Inscription
    • U-ing and O-ing
    • Room Writing
    • In General
  • Reorganizing
    • Spatial Reorientation
    • Spatial Recovery
    • Compression
    • Isometries
  • Additions
    • CZ
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These video segments, originally produced by William Forsythe for the purpose of training his company’s dancers, offer a perspective on the choreographer’s approach to analyzing improvisation. The animated lines and other graphical effects that annotate the sequences demonstrate Forsythe’s view that certain classes of movement can be analyzed as geometrically inscriptive—a formal drawing with the body in space.

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