The Forsythe Company - Yes we can't

Once again in 2011 the Athens Festival returns to the major American choreographer William Forsyth (born 1949 in New York), together with the dancers of The Forsythe Company, and their performance Yes we can't, which is inspired by Becket's universe. We would like to remind you that in 2007, a thematic chapter had been included in the Festival, which was devoted to the perceptive 'American of Europe', who over the last thirty years has managed to alter the topography of dance, effectively razing the distinction between the classical and the contemporary. In the 1990's he created masterpieces as head of the Frankfurt Ballet, by introducing his radical ideas into classical ballet.

Today, at the age of sixty, he has a small and versatile group, The Forsyth Company, whilst he continues to create with digital media, new technologies and video, in a completely different vocabulary.




Such a breadth of creative aspiration is in accordance with his basic belief that 'his choreographic universe can encompass everything'. In Yes we can't we are called upon to discover his theatrical sharpness, as he draws from Becket's the simple and elliptical language. A language to which, through sometimes persistent repetition, he gives rhythm.

http://www.greekfestival.gr/en/event35-yes-we-can-t--den-boroyme-nai-.htm

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