 | REPERTOIRE Artifact II
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Choreography: William Forsythe
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Costumes and Light Desig: William Forsythe
Staging: Hilde Koch and Carlos Iturrioz
Premiered by Frankfurt Ballet, December 5th, 1984. Premiered by Compañía Nacional de Danza at Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, December 10th, 1998.
Once again, the director of the Frankfurt Ballet wants to break with the ballet's traditional aesthetic, undoing it and creating new visual proposals for the spectator. As long as the spectator is upfor it, a work like Artifact can become an adventure, because it does not propose anything closed or finished.
The spectator must, and this is Forsythe's intention, imagine his/her own music score. Forsythe thinks that reality exists only in the mind of the human being. It is a product of his/her fantasy, in the same way as art. An art that has become artificial through its formalisation.
What interests the author is to take the extremes. To explore the limits of the possibilities of the body, light, speech until he reaches their final frontiers. The dancers place themselves in the space as if they had to check how far their muscles and articulations can stretch. An extraordinary concept of spaciousness is pursued. Forsythe clearly states that he is not trying a redefinition of the classical language. What he proposes is the development of a new vocabulary.
