1st Holland Dance Event 2010 is Artifact by the Royal Ballet of Flanders

21st of January 2010 | Lucent Danstheater | Den Haag

In 1984 Forsyte, just appointed as artistic director of the Ballett Frankfurt, made his first full length choreography 'Artifact'. This four part ballet meant the start of a radical innovation in coded dance and it was the touchstone for a different kind of ballet. Forsythe disturbed the view and the perception of the viewer by means of irregular outbursts of noise and surreptitious implosions of light. He moved sections in such a way that the form and the significant connections between the separate elements led their own lives in the head of the viewer/spectator: as an ordinary tale, as a fantasy, as a stream of images, as a construction, as a critical interrogation or as a pure play of forms. He analysed and dismantled classic ballet to build it up again with a whole spectrum of varied material. All these characteristics are to be found in 'Artifact' : brilliant/sharp/incisive classic movements in real Balanchine style, alongside 'free', fluid movements from American post-modern dance mixed with techniques from contact improvisation.

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