Decreation

Dance performance Decreation by William Forsythe and The Forsythe Company, programmed in Holland Festival 2008.
Decreation is one of the last works that William Forsythe created for Ballet Frankfurt before this illustrious ballet company was dissolved in 2004. An artificial opera of deformation, tenderness and rage emerges as Decreation unfolds. Dialogues, characters and physical commands migrate through the dancers; a rapid, slithering switch from body to body. Sound is transformed, weeps and soars through the throats, the bodies, which move in a constant, oblique tension. All communication is mediated, detoured, in a seamless flow of configuration, displacement, vacuum and vision. The piece reforms itself continually around three questions which tell of the progression of the soul. From three parts, to two parts, to one.