Release Ballet
The Joy of Movement

This class is a classical ballet class but using the principals of describing space and sensing motion that I learned while improvising for Forsythe for many years. The class is body friendly and allows us to learn some "tricks of the trade" to make our lines more clear and long. We also will be approaching things with speed, deriving from my Balanchine training.
Like the title suggests I also look for ways that we can explore the joy of movement in a ballet class, incorporating the whole body and to be able to see that ballet is still dancing.




Forsythe Repertory
Forsythe and Rizzi Repertory

Tony Rizzi will be teaching a solo from "Vile Parody of Adress", a more modern solo. The participants will learn about where ideas and impetus for the movements come from as well as how they can alter this bodytext to create new material. Rizzi very much likes to use the things that are going on in the space and set up a feeling of having a rehearsal at the Ballett Frankfurt. Letting the desires and ideas come from the people in the workshop he will guide what you will do next. This may mean jumping to a completly different piece or combining two together or as in the past maybe making a new piece out of it. An open mind and an understanding of "going with the flow" is a necessity to participate. And best would be to attend all 5 classes if you commit to the workshop. It is not a rule but it is more fulfilling for everyone.




Antony Rizzi
Antony Rizzi, Italian from Dedham/Massachusetts, USA, works as a dancer, choreographer, actor, visual artist, radio dj, film maker and model - all in one. After training for 4 years at the Boston Ballet School with Bruce Wells, Virginia Williams, Viollette Verdy and Richard Dickenson he went to Frankfurt Ballet. For the past 17 years he has worked primarily with William Forsythe, as a dancer and assistant, creating many roles at the Frankfurt Ballet ("Enemy in the Figure" "Kammer/Kammer","Of any if and" etc.). As an actor he has worked with Jan Fabre, most notable as the devil in "Da un altra facio del tempo" and as Neil Armstrong/Mae West in "Glowing Icons", and has played James Joyce in Jan Lauwers "DeadDogsDontDance". He has created dance/theatre/performances a.o. for The Royal Ballet of London, Scapino Ballet ("Nothing Original"), Frankfurt Ballet "My Ant Farm" and "Geek at the end of the table")., Boston Ballet and Pennsylvania Ballet.