Mon 04.11.2024 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Tue 05.11.2024 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Wed 06.11.2024 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Thu 07.11.2024 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Fri 08.11.2024 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Mon 11.11.2024 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Tue 12.11.2024 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Wed 13.11.2024 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Thu 14.11.2024 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Fri 15.11.2024 | 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Künstler*innenhaus Mousonturm - Probebühne 3
Waldschmidtstraße 4
60316 Frankfurt am Main
Participation in Release Ballet requires an intermediate level of classical dance.
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.
Antony Rizzi, an Italian American coming from Boston, was from 1985 to 2003 a principal dancer and artistic advisor to William Forsythe at the Ballett Frankfurt. He has been teaching Classical Ballet and Improvisation since 1987, first at The Boston Ballet and over the years at various companies like, Wuppertal Dancetheatre, Munich Ballet, La Scala Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Ballet Theatre Munich, Ballett Frankfurt and others. He has been creating works as well since 1984 for various companies like The Royal Ballet, The Boston Ballet, The Ballett Frankfurt and the Scapino Ballet. In addition he created works for his own company, MOVING PRODUCTIONS including "Snowman Sinking", "Judy was angry", "The Role I Should Have Done", "1 2 3 you and me", "Being Human Being" and most recently "Some of my best friends are trash". Rizzi also works as an actor, with the Forsythe Company, Jan Fabre and most recently at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in the Opera THE FASHION directed by Michael Simon.