"N.N.N.N." appears as a mind split into four parts: four dancers in a state of constant, filigree connection.

The dancer's audible breath score binds them as a tightly linked entity; their limbs become singular voices, each tuned and in counterpoint to the others, as they enter into a complex, intense state of music making.

William Forsythe

William Forsythe has been active in the field of choreography for over 50 years. His work is acknowledged for reorienting the practice of ballet from its identification with classical repertoire to a dynamic 21st century art form.

Forsythe danced with the Joffrey Ballet and later the Stuttgart Ballet, where he was appointed Resident Choreographer in 1976. In 1984, he began a 20-year tenure as director of the Ballet Frankfurt after which he founded and directed The Forsythe Company until 2015. Forsythe's deep interest in the fundamental principles of organisation of choreography has led him to produce a wide range of projects including installations, films, and web-based knowledge creation.

While his work for the stage resides in the repertoire of ensembles worldwide, his installations are presented internationally in exhibitions and museums.

Forsythe has been the recipient of numerous awards, which include the Golden Lion of the Venice Biennale, Der DER FAUST German Theatre Award and the Kyoto Price, all for lifetime achievement.

“Body me” is built from a simple decision: the bodies of the others become the source. Each dancer’s movement is not invented in isolation but drawn out of someone else’s—observed, touched, interrupted, borrowed, translated. The choreography directs how material is generated: bodies reading bodies, bodies shaping bodies, bodies passing on information that cannot be fully owned.

There is no linear narrative here, but a set of shifting situations. Solo becomes duet, duet becomes group, intimacy becomes distance, support becomes resistance. The piece treats the body as both matter and meaning: a physical reality, and a site onto which society projects care, fear, desire, control. We continually concern ourselves with the bodies of others—who may move, who must stop, who is allowed to be close, who is kept away.

“Body me” stays with that tension. It asks what is created when the body is not only the center of dance, but the central question in general: how do we handle one another, how do we learn from one another, and what do we lose—or recover—through the act of making movement together.

CYRIL BALDY

Cyril Baldy, born in France, is a highly regarded dancer, choreographer, teacher and rehearsal director. He trained in dance from 1993 to 1997 at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. His professional career began in 1997 with the Jeune Ballet de France. Shortly afterwards, he moved to Nederlands Dans Theater II and subsequently to Nederlands Dans Theater I under the direction of Jiří Kylián, where he danced until 2002.

Baldy then moved to Ballett Frankfurt and finally joined The Forsythe Company in 2005, where he danced until 2014 under the artistic direction of William Forsythe. Since 2014, he has been working freelance as a choreographer and teacher, as well as a rehearsal director and ballet master for Forsythe’s works.

He has worked with numerous renowned companies, including Ballet BC, Nederlands Dans Theater, Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon and Pacific Northwest Ballet.