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William Forsythe: Transfigurations
April 2-July 26, 2009
Wexner Center for the Arts

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PRESS KIT DOCUMENTS:

OVERVIEW
EXHIBITION
SYNCHRONOUS OBJECTS WEB PROJECT
SYMPOSIUM
OPENING EVENTS
FORSYTHE'S CHOREOGRAPHIC OBJECTS ESSAY
FORSYTHE'S BIOGRAPHY


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William Forsythe
Photo: Stephan Floss Photo
City of Abstracts
Installed at the Wexner Center for the Arts
Video installation: William Forsythe
Software development: Philip Bumann
Premiere: November 24, 2000, Opernplatz, Hauptwache, Frankfurt
Courtesy The Forsythe Company
Photo by Kevin Fitzsimons
Condensed credit:
William Forsythe’s City of Abstracts (2000) Video installation at the Wexner Center for the Arts, 2009, as part of the exhibition William Forsythe: Transfigurations
Photo by Kevin Fitzsimons
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Monster Partitur (after You made me a monster)
Performed at the Wexner Center for the Arts, April 1, 2009
Installation and text: William Forsythe
Construction supervision: Marion Rossi
Performer: Alessio Silvestrin
Sound: Dietrich Kroger, Niels Lanz, and Hubert Machnik
Voice treatment / digital sound processing programming: Andreas Breitscheid and Manuel Poletti in collaboration with the Forum Neues Musiktheater, Staatsoper, Stuttgart
Premiere: April 26, 2006, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Photo by Kevin Fitzsimonss
Condensed credit:
William Forsythe’s Monster Partitur (2006)
Performer: Alessio Silvestrin
Image of performance and installation at Wexner Center for the Arts, 2009, as part of the exhibition William Forsythe: Transfigurations
Photo by Kevin Fitzsimons
OSU dance students help construct Monster Partitur during The Forsythe Company's residency at the Wexner Center.
Photo: Lindsay LaPointe
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Gallery view of video works (from left) Antipodes and Solo from the exhibition William Forsythe: Transfigurations at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Photo by Cory Piehowicz
Solo (still)
16mm film transferred to video
Running time: 6:40 minutes
Choreography / Performance: William Forsythe
Music: Thom Willems in collaboration with Maxime Franke
Director: Thomas Lovell Balogh
Camera: Jess Hall
Production: RD-Studio Productions, France 2, BBC TV
1997
Condensed credit:
Solo (still), 1997
16mm film transferred to video
Courtesy of The Forsythe Company
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Antipodes I / II (still)
Two-channel video
Running time: 12 minutes, 20 seconds
Choreography / performance: William Forsythe
Music: Ryoji Ikeda
Premiere: May 16, 2006, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Courtesy The Forsythe Company
Photo: Julian Gabriel Richter
Condensed credit:
Antipodes I / II (still), 2006
Two-channel video
Courtesy of The Forsythe Company
Suspense (still)
Video
Running time: 13:10 minutes
Choreography / Performance: William Forsythe
Camera: Dietrich Kroger
Premiere: May 17, 2008, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal
Courtesy: The Forsythe Company
Condensed credit:
Suspense (still), 2008
Video
Courtesy of The Forsythe Company
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Gallery view of Synchronous Objects section of the exhibition William Forsythe: Transfigurations at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Photo by Kevin Fitzsimons
Gallery view of Synchronous Objects section of the exhibition William Forsythe: Transfigurations at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
Photo by Kevin Fitzsimons
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William Forsythe with Synchronous Objects collaborators Maria Palazzi (L) and Norah Zuniga Shaw (R), 2008.
Photo by Kevin Fitzsimons
Synchronous Objects: Image from annotated video illustrating alignments (the way Forsythe designs relationships in space and time).
Credit: Synchronous Objects Project, The Ohio State University and The Forsythe Company
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Synchronous Objects: William Forsythe with Project Team students from OSU, at OSU's ACCAD facility (Advanced Computing Center for the Arts & Design), 2008.
Photo by Kevin Fitzsimons.
Synchronous Objects: William Forsythe discussing information graphics with Project Team students from OSU, at OSU's ACCAD facility (Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design), 2008.
Photo by Kevin Fitzsimons.


Select media coverage


WOSU's Artzine | The Big Ten Network | osu.edu
Synchronous Objects (5.14.09)

The New York Times
Drawing Movement�s Connections (3.24.09)

The Columbus Dispatch
Innovative Choreographer Refuses to See Limits (3.29.09)

Dance Magazine
The Science Inside a Dance (4.09)

Artforum
Exhibition Preview (1.09)

Columbus Dispatch
Three Approaches Attract Attention to Common Ground (4.12.09)

onCampus
Spring Treats (4.2.09)

onCampus
Synchronous Objects Takes Web by Storm (4.8.09)

The Other Paper
Spring Treats (4.2.09)


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