Choreographer William Forsythe (2024 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Arts and Philosophy), who opened a new horizon of performing arts by radically renewing methodologies and aesthetics of ballet and dance, delivers a lecture as part of the Kyoto Prize at Oxford 2025.

He radically questions and deconstructs the structure and style of traditional ballet to create new methodologies and aesthetics of theatrical dance. He continues to go beyond the conventional concept of choreography and to extend the potential of the art form using human bodies through various innovative works.

Mr Forsythe’s lecture will be introduced by Dean of the Blavatnik School Professor Ngaire Woods. The lecture will be followed by a Q&S session moderated by former professional ballet dancer, choreographer, and teacher, Dr Meindert Peters, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford.

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