From: William To: Dance

William Forsythe’s greatest contributions to the dance field would be mainly from his choreography and choreographic systems that he’s developed. The way he views choreography as an organization mechanism and thinks of this in choreography aside from dance. William see’s everything as choreography and with that believes everything can be an organized structure. He has always seen himself as a problem solver and says there is a structure to figuring any problem out. William has also said that he understands philosophy, mathematics, and architecture through dance and understanding movement. His choreographic approach and intent really reflects this. His concepts and systems of choreography have really made him a very distinct choreographer. His concept of a body moving in terms of creating movement, like his folding and unfolding of the body, how the body relates to space, and using ballet as a vocabulary to build from. These concepts that he’s created have led to the creations of some of the most important contributions of his career and also to the field of dance. His system of ways to connect or relate the body to space with lines, points, relationships, and possibilities through improvisation called Improvisation Technologies: A Tool for Analytical Dance Eye is used by many schools and companies world wide. Synchronized Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced is a system that breaks down or can alter the structure of something, choreographically, or for data, or even objects; this can be found online. He founded the European program D.A.N.C.E. which takes students to experience all different types of dance and choreographers. In 2010, he launched a four year project with his company to further his research in choreography and to also publicize on-line digital scores. His choreographic developments would be the biggest contribution, if not the most important contribution to the field of dance from William Forsythe.