APPROXIMATE SONATA | BALLET IMPERIAL | LA BAYADERE | CHOPINIANA | DIANA AND ACTEON | DON QUIXOTE | ETUDES | JEWELS | IN THE MIDDLE, SOMEWHAT ELEVATED | LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE | PAQUITA | PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 | RAYMONDA | SCHEHEREZADE | SERENADE | STEPTEXT | LE CORSAIRE-LE JARDIN ANIMEE
THE DYING SWAN | THE VERTIGINOUS THRILL OF EXACTITUDE

STEPTEXT

Choreography by William Forsythe
Music by J.S. Bach, “Partita No.2 BWV1004 in D minor, Chaconne”
Performed by Nathan Milstein
Stage, lighting and costumes by William Forsythe
Assistant Choreographer: Aaron Sean Watkin
Coaches: Yuri Fateyev, Alexei Miroshnichenko

Premiere: January 11, 1985, Aterballetto, Italy
Premiere in Frankfurt: January 31, 1985, Ballett Frankfurt
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: March 3, 2004

Steptext suspends the major and incidental procedural mechanisms of performance that have traditionally determined the structure of theatrical representation. The resulting series of dislocated musical, scenographic and danced suspensions creates a mood of changed narrative; for one woman and three men.
                                                                                    William Forsythe

WILLIAM FORSYTHE was born in New York City in 1949. He studied dance at Jacksonville University, Florida and later at the Joffrey Ballet School. In 1973 Forsythe joined Germany’s Stuttgarter Ballett as a dancer, and later began choreographing works for the company. It was there that he made his first piece, “Ulricht”, a duet to the music of Gustav Mahler. Over the next years Forsythe made numerous ballets for the Stuttgart Ballet and for other leading companies, including the Basel Ballet, Munich Ballet, the Deutsche Opera Ballet in Berlin, the Joffrey Ballet, and Netherlands Dance Theater. In 1984 Forsythe became artistic director of Ballett Frankfurt, a year after creating his full-length work for the company, “Gaenge”. With his new company, he set out to create works which were removed from conventional ballet and to build a new audience. Forsythe continues to stage pieces for companies around the globe, and his work is in the repertoire of the New York City Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden and the Paris Opera Ballet, among others. Ballett Frankfurt performs at the Oper and Schauspiel in Frankfurt and tours internationally. Since 1999 the company has also performed at the Bockenheimer Depot (TAT) in Frankfurt, a performance space housed in a converted tramway depot, where Forsythe continues to develop site-specific work like “Endless House”. In January 1999 Forsythe became director of both Ballett Frankfurt and TAT

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