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

Holland Festival, Amsterdam
June 7th & 8th

Théâtre National de Chaillot, Paris
June 19th - 21st

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.
(Dana Caspersen)

2007

Schiffbau Halle, Schauspielhaus Zurich

October: 25th–29th

Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
May: 25th & 26th