William Forsythe

City Center Studio 4 130 West 56th Street, Manhattan There is much to admire about the way Miro Magloire runs his New Chamber Ballet. He presents uncompromisingly contemporary ballet and music, but by showing it in the bare-bones City Center... ... Full Article

Crystal Pite is perhaps a little more used to living out of a suitcase than the rest of us. Arriving this week from Holland with the Luminato-bound Nederlands Dans Theatre, she'll be choreographing The Second Person , her third show... ... Full Article

Two weeks in the presence of choreographer William Forsythe and his astonishing company (courtesy of this Sadler's Wells retrospective) is the dance equivalent of a brain massage: challenging and invigorating. ... Full Article

William Forsythe is usually called a radical in that he's long since abandoned ballet's classical harmonies and theatre's linear conventions. Yet for all his extremities, the choreographer's purpose remains intensely humane, albeit with painfully disruptive means. ... Full Article

David Dougill This is Scottish Ballet's 40th-anniversary year, but the company doesn't trade on the past: Ashley Page, now in his seventh year as director, has radically reinvented its identity. ... Full Article

An American expatriate long based in Germany, the choreographer William Forsythe is also a maverick who pushes to new limits both classical ballet and common perceptions of what the human body is capable of. ... Full Article