Born in New York City in 1949. After studying dance at Jacksonville University and the Joffrey Ballet School, Forsythe joins the Stuttgart Ballet as a dancer in 1973. Here he creates his first choreography, Urlicht, a duet to music by Gustav Mahler. Additional works for the Stuttgart Ballet include Flore subsimplici (1978) and Love Songs (1979). In 1983, Forsythe choreographs the piece Gänge with the company of the Frankfurt Ballet; he is appointed its director in 1984 and continues to lead it today. Important works of this time include: Artifact (1984), Impressing the Czar (1988), Limb’s Theorem (1991), The loss of small Detail (1991), Alie/naction (1992), Eidos:Telos (1995), Endless House 1999, and Kammer/Kammer (2000). Since October 1999, Forsythe has also served as the director of TAT at the Bockenheimer Depot, the second performance home of the Frankfurt Ballet.
Beginning in the 2004/2005 season, the Frankfurt Ballet will continue under Forsythe’s direction as an independent dance company, separate from Frankfurt’s Städtische Bühnen. In June 2005, Forsythe presented his new research project in cooperation with the Forum Neues Musiktheater at the FNM in Stuttgart. In January 2006 You made me a monster im Forum Neues Musiktheater.