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Article: Frankfurt Ballet. (Opernhaus, Frankfurt, Germany)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 1994
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William Forsythe's new work, Self Meant to Govern, is a somber and exacting exercise in fugue and counterpoint. Six female dancers and a violinist work together in a bleached environment denuded of all but a number of clocks (which bear letters rather than numbers) and a long line strung tautly across the back. To violently atonal music (a computer treatment by Thom Willems of Stravinsky's Apollo) and the ticking of the clocks, the women perform seemingly random combinations of steps on different parts of the stage while a superb young musician, Maxim Franke, moves around and plays the complex score. Occasionally the dancers interact as their paths cross; occasionally ...