Theatre

Decreation

The Forsythe Company

Premiere: 27 April 2003, Bockenheimer Depot, Frankfurt am Main

Decreation

Decreation. The Forsythe Company © Dieter Schwer

Wed 21 January [after the performance]
Talk with the audience
With William Forsythe, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter and students of the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft of the FU Berlin
[limited seating capacity]

An artificial opera of deformation, tenderness and rage emerges as Decreation unfolds. Dialogues, characters and physical commands migrate through the dancers; a rapid, slithering switch from body to body. Sound is transformed, weeps and soars through the throats, the bodies, which move in a constant, oblique tension. All communication is mediated, detoured, in a seamless flow of configuration, displacement, vacuum and vision. The piece re-forms itself continually around three questions which tell of the progression of the soul. From three parts, to two parts, to one.

Cast

Choreography by William Forsythe
After an essay by Anne Carson

Stage William Forsythe
Lighting Jan Walther / William Forsythe
Music David Morrow
Costumes Claudia Hill
Dramaturgy Rebecca Groves
Video design Philip Bußmann
Sound design Niels Lanz / Bernhard Klein
Camera Dietrich Krüger

With Yoko Ando, Cyril Baldy, Francesca Caroti, Dana Caspersen, Amancio Gonzalez, David Kern, Fabrice Mazliah, Roberta Mosca, Tilman O’Donnell, Nicole Peisl, Christopher Roman, Jone San Martin, Parvaneh Scharafali, Yasutake Shimaji, Richard Siegal*, Elizabeth Waterhouse, Ander Zabala
* guest