Steptext

Choreography WILLIAM FORSYTHE
Music: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH*
Staged for Aterballetto by: JILL JOHNSON
Costumes: WILLIAM FORSYTHE
Light and set design: WILLIAM FORSYTHE

“Steptext”: it is, perhaps, a short narrative of songs from the language of theatre.
A movement, a gesture, a sound, a picture, a word, a light”.
William Forsythe

* Ciaccona from Partita in D minor for solo violin

Many thanks to William Forsythe for his collaboration in this project.

World premiere :
Reggio Emilia, Teatro Ariosto
11 January 1985

Ballet for 4 dancers