With his Choreographic Objects, world-renowned choreographer William Forsythe shifts your attention from viewing to doing. Rather than relying on visual form alone, these pieces establish distinct choreographic conditions that take shape only through your active, physical engagement with them. Each object proposes a situation in which movement becomes the primary means of encountering the work.
6 June – 23 August 2026
Sometimes your engagements with William Forsythe’s Choreographic Objectsunfold immediately and almost without thought, prompted by the object’s straightforward cues. Others require a more deliberate coordination of perception, balance, and decision-making in order to navigate their simple rules. Across this spectrum, the works do not prescribe a specific outcome; instead, they foreground the ways your body organizes itself in response to spatial prompts and shifting conditions.
Your participation – whether playful, tentative, or methodical – is central. It is through moving, adjusting, and testing that the kinds of actions and responses the works are designed to bring forward become perceptible. In this sense, the Choreographic Objects turn attention toward the activity of relating – between body, space, and object – making experience itself the site where the work unfolds.
William Forsythe, Abstand, 2015 – Photo: © Dominik Mentzos
Header: William Forsythe, Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time, 2015, Collection MMK Frankfurt – Photo: © Dominik Mentzos