To be sure, William Forsythe's work betrays a measure of indebtedness to balletic traditions. Yet Forsythe is also immersed in a current effort to interrupt the mechanics of classical balletic syntax. Forsythe's work offers forms and residual displacements generated by operations on movements. He represents the interstices of forms that are multiply inscribed by and in the body. The forgotten elements of deceptively unified and coherent sequences are reassembled spatially.
Performances fail where they forget their own histories of discontinuity and disappearance.
In this way choreography - the memorized, fixed, fetishized object disappears.