William Forsythe

City of Abstracts

Choreographer William Forsythe's installation, City of Abstracts, turns the eye of a camera on the people of a city. As they move through its streets, onto its trains, as they pause on its sidewalks, their image is projected onto a giant screen. Their movements and pauses, velocities and directions, the straight and curved paths taken become a dance of spiraled, stretched bodies, of vanishing and re-appearing heads. The street scene is morphed into a seething tableau that invites the passersby to offer movement, as it feeds back to them the complex un-noticed choreography in which they are already engaged.

Visiting hours: 21:00-01:00


The Forsythe Company is supported by the city of Dresden and the state of Saxony as well as the city of Frankfurt am Main and the state of Hesse.


The Forsythe Company is supported by Ernst & Young.

Duration Installation byWilliam Forsythe Video Software DevelopmentPhilip BußmannProduction ManagerJulian Gabriel Richter

Peiraios 260

  • 22/06 until 14/07/2007 at 21:00
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ISAP

  • 22/06 until 14/07/2007 at 21:00

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