Photo by Dominik Mentzos

William Forsythe, performance view of "Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time" (2007)

March 2009 Field Guide

Paris: The Jazz Century

Interview: Second Trienal Poli/Graficá de San Juan

New York, Paris and Stockholm: Survey of Surveys

Minneapolis: The Quick and the Dead

Washingon, DC: Guido van der Werve

North Adams, MA: These Days: Elegies for Modern Times

Nuremberg, Germany: Katinka Bock

Ghent, Belgium: Dara Birnbaum

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The American choreographer William Forsythe tapped sources as varied as poetry by Anne Carson and the Iraq war to construct his world-renowned dances. A great admirer of Fred Astaire as a young boy, Forsythe is today credited with vigorously bringing ballet into the 21st century. This spring, Sadler’s Wells Theater has curated a retrospective of his work at several prominent locations in London. At Tate Modern, the Forsythe Company dancers will weave through hundreds of plumb lines filling Turbine Hall. Always one to surprise, other performances throughout the city include screen projections, thread, fog, and thousands of white balloons.

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"Focus on Forsythe" originally appeared in the April 2009 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' April 2009 Table of Contents.