by Claudia Bauer | Oct 20, 2016 | News
This story originally appeared in the October/November 2016 issue of Pointe. After 40 years in Europe, choreographer William Forsythe recently put down stateside roots as a professor at the University of Southern California’s new Glorya Kaufman School of Dance....
by Amy Brandt | Aug 23, 2016 | Company Life
This week, there’s a whirlwind of dance in the Windy City. The annual Chicago Dancing Festival, celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, opened last night at the Auditorium Theater with glittering performances by the Joffrey Ballet, Martha Graham Dance...
by Amy Brandt | May 10, 2016 | Company Life
Kathleen Breen Combes and Bo Busby in Forsythe’s Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude. Photo by Gene Schiavone, Courtesy Boston Ballet. If you ask most dancers whose work they hope to perform, William Forsythe is usually at the top of the list. (How many of us have...
by Pointe Magazine | Jan 19, 2016 | Company Life
Rebecca Rhodes in Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments. Photo by Erik Tomasson, Courtesy SFB. Most dancers drool over YouTube clips of William Forsythe’s choreography, but few are lucky enough to work with him. Corps dancer Rebecca Rhodes had just that...
by Amy Brandt | Nov 24, 2015 | Profiles
This story originally appeared in the December 2015/January 2016 issue of Pointe. Maria Kochetkova has a voracious appetite for inspiration. A principal dancer with San Francisco Ballet since 2007, she spent the last few years guesting with American Ballet Theatre...
by Hannah Chang Foster | Nov 11, 2015 | Company Life
Sylvie Guillem once said, “I have a lucky physique.” Lucky is an understatement; my adjective of choice would be “perfect.” As the Paris Opéra Ballet’s youngest ever étoile, Guillem effaced previous technical standards with...
by Marcie Sillman | Aug 2, 2015 | Career
This story originally appeared in the August/September 2015 issue of Pointe. William Forsythe isn’t a large man, and he’s not particularly flashy. But when he sidled into Pacific Northwest Ballet’s rehearsal studio on a bright winter afternoon, the...
by Amy Brandt | Mar 10, 2015 | Company Life
As Pacific Northwest Ballet revs up for its upcoming triple bill devoted entirely to the works of William Forsythe, the company will live stream a special lecture-demonstration with the groundbreaking choreographer tonight on its website. The evening includes a...