ABSTRACT
One of William Forsythe’s most noticeable characteristics as a choreographer is his intense curiosity about other art forms. From the early works the Americanborn choreographer made for the Stuttgart Ballet through a freelance career in the early 1980s and the 40-odd ballets that he has made since becoming artistic director of the Frankfurt Ballet in 1984, his openness to stimulus from other fields has forged a distinctive theatrical style that abets his idiosyncratic and complex choreographic language. He extends the vocabulary of dance in a way that goes beyond the world of ballet even as it radically extends the possibilities of that form.
