Press Reviews       YOU MADE ME A MONSTER Press Reviews of the Performances on January 13 and 14, 2006     back    (…) It is a very personal work of the choreographer, who’s otherwise known to put on stage his dry, analytical mind-games transformed into dance. Up to now, this unique chance to see the Forsythe Company in Stuttgart is due to the Forum Neues Musiktheater. This Stuttgart State Opera’s venue for experimental works invited the dance ensemble to the Römerkastell in order to present a joint research project – with and through this Forsythe-creation. (…) What sounds like beeing “pre-produced” by instruments and electronics is actually provoked by the dancers alone. Their voices and the “noises”, generated by their body movements are altered by a specific electronic Software. This voice- converting technology was developed by Andreas Breitscheid and his team at the FNM providing Forsythe with something he always aspired: making dance autonomous and independent from musical submittals. Stuttgarter Zeitung With his performance You made me a monster the choreographer William Forsythe came back to his very first workplace : to Stuttgart – but not to the Ballet Company, rather to the exceedingly experimental Forum Neues Musiktheater of the Stuttgart State Opera at the Römerkastell. (…) Forsythe positioned himself anew, letting a privatised dance company perform between Dresden, Frankfurt and Zurich; furthermore his company is presenting it’s works on festivals and top-class locations as guest performers: the Forsythe Company is tramping around, probably only like Pina Bausch does. Stuttgart – where Forsythe once started as a John Cranko dancer and then actually managed to first gain a foothold as a choreographer – apparently seems to play a distinguished part in his work presentation. Thus – and together with the innovative Forum Neues Musiktheater – an electronic voice-converting technology was extensively worked out within a joint research project. Following the theoretical and testing stages and after the customary “Ius primae noctis” of the opening night at the biannual Venice Festival this work also hit it big at other Forsythe staging posts. But still: somehow You made me a monster also seems to be tailored for the Stuttgart station: as a “tinkering moment”, a creative-thinking session, on the foundation of Andreas Breitscheid’s acoustic “distortion-method”, firmly frapped to the agile bodies of the three protagonists of this Forsythe-Play. (…) Schwäbisches Tagblatt The multimedia experimental laboratory, the pet project of departing opera director Zehelein, confidently reveals (...) the fruits of its work. Another internationally admired project is the collaboration of the FNM with the Forsythe Company. In two productions with his recently founded company, American choreography William Forsythe has developed and explored live electronics to process and manipulate the voices and movements of his dancers. His desire to create acoustic performances (“I wanted the dancers to be able to become their own instruments”) is impressively realized in the one-hour-long piece You Made Me a Monster. (...) A touching experiment between performance, surround sound, and installation. Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung
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