WILLIAM FORSYTHE

After more than 20 years at the head of Ballett Frankfurt, Forsythe founded The Forsythe Company in 2005. He was born in New York City in 1949 and trained at Jacksonville University, Florida and the Joffrey Ballet School. He joined the Stuttgart Ballet in1973, and, over the next seven years, choreographed over 20 ballets, both for his own company and others, including the Joffrey Ballet, Basel Ballet, Munich Ballet, the Deutsche Opera Ballet in Berlin, and Nederlands Dans Theater. In 1984, Mr. Forsythe was appointed Director of Ballett Frankfurt, the company for which he had created the full-length ballet Gange the year before. Mr. Forsythe’s key works include Artifact (1984), Impressing the Czar (1988), Limb's Theorem (1991), The Loss of Small Detail (1991), A L I E/NA(C)TION (1992), Eidos: Telos (1995), Endless House (1999), and Kammer / Kammer (2002). His choreography appears in the repertories of New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, The Royal Ballet (Covent Garden), and The Royal Swedish Ballet, among others.