links still open after I finished writing:

45 minute long BBC Radio 3 interview with William Forsythe, with transcript. Very useful
(Also saved in my pdf files with highlights and notes)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/forsythe_transcript.shtml

“…art forms are connected with different forms of time. At the moment I have the feeling that art is a manifestation of death, connected to a secret, when people are aware of the mechanisms of absence. Trance is related to that.  And dance is…”
(William Forsythe in an interview with Johananes Oldentahl in “Tanz Korper Politik”)

Presence and absence have always been connected to dance as an art form. The body as a medium between transcendence and materialization. In most cases dance is supposed to be a way of disappearing. Even in dance history, the hard core within that history, dance itself is absent.  A possible dance history has been substituted by another history; the history of the body.

At the beginning of the 21st century the body has found itself in the midst of pain, fear, chaos and war. Being endlessly attacked and constantly de-centered and above all trapped between fleeting physical-material acts within a confusion of bodies, concepts and strategies. We find ourselves encaged in all the diverse media´s imaginable and we stand inside all the possible spaces at once in all bodies we can think off. Within the works of contemporary choreographers like Forsythe, Charmatz, Le Roy and Stuart the absence of the body is as present as it is absent. 

Is there a connection to the revival of the hidden body in religion? To the renewed interest in shamanism and body rituals?  The discussions about the non-image in Judaism or Islam, the replaced body, the sacrificed bodies, ghosts and energies?  As a contribution in the discussion and research The School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in collaboration with the Lectoraat AHK presents between 21 May and 8 June 2007, a series of workshops and lectures called The Absent Body.
Absent Body, University in Netherlands, Hochschule der Künste
http://www.ahk.nl/lectoraten/kunstpraktijk/coproducties-en-projecten/absent-body/

Deleuze: Writing and Difference, the whole books as pdf file to read online
http://webdelprofesor.ula.ve/humanidades/anderzon/materias/materiales/Writing_and_Difference__Routledge_Classics_.pdf

Categories, Beauty and Dance

Dana Casperson resonding to comments at the Walker Art Center, 2007, some insight, nice to read from someone in Forsythe's company (his wife) http://blogs.walkerart.org/performingarts/2007/04/

Exploring the Abstract Language of Contemporary Dance in order to create Emotional stances / nuances - a Masters of Arts Dissertation - 2006 - Csaba Steven Buday
A long dissertation by a dancer who has danced with Forsythe.
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16420/1/Csaba_Buday_Thesis.pdf

Scribd Documents, 3 pages on William Forsythe, some general information some useful additional information . Starting page 145. from book: Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. Bremser, Martha
Routledge 2005 (first published 1999)
 http://www.scribd.com/doc/57280358/24/WILLIAM-FORSYTHE

Derrida / On Femininity, p.135
Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on dance and Performane Theory
Lepecki, Andre
University Press of New England (2004)
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WwK-lFzmAhAC&pg=PA135&lpg=PA135&dq=dance%22+trace+derrida&source=bl&ots=31cfgRcipa&sig=tGddQAyA0UmRyGRxYbydupu8iiU&hl=en&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=dance%22%20trace%20derrida&f=false

Wikipedia, Trace (deconstruction) - Derrida, Spivac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace_(deconstruction)

In my saved pdf files"
Journal of Architecture
Dance and drawing, choreography and architecture
Steven Spier

note to self: links to remember to click again

: http://unrealnature.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/breathing/

presence and absence, Derrida: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/elljwp/derriduction2.htm

SemperOper: http://www.semperoper.de/en/ballett/premieren/detailansicht/details/55915/besetzung/1581.html

Wexner Prize / Forsythe
http://www.wexarts.org/info/press/db/68_nr-prize02_combo.elec.pdf

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1090933/William-Forsythe

Absent Body: http://www.ahk.nl/lectoraten/kunstpraktijk/coproducties-en-projecten/absent-body/

epaulement: http://www.google.com/search?q=epaulement&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=S_M4UN62Lcqp0AXt74HQCA&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1424&bih=764

The Complete Conductor's Guide to Laban Movement Theory (really good)

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SMGEazQ_vmIC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Jean nancy, deconstruction and stuff:

http://www.iep.utm.edu/nancy/

Gustav Mahler, Alfred Roller, and the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk:
"Tristan" and affinities between the arts at the Vienna Court Opera

http://udini.proquest.com/view/gustav-mahler-alfred-roller-and-the-pqid:1882449341/

Deleuze, Writng and Difference:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nsyH7x41RpsC&pg=PA312&lpg=PA312&dq=theatre+representation+is+finite,+and+leaves+behind+its+actual+presence,+no+traces,+no+object+to+carry+off,+it+is+neither+a+book+nor+a+work,+but+an+energy,+and+in+this+sense+it+is+the+only+art+of+life.”&source=bl&ots=IbQhnR5gc6&sig=QNrVzkuBSy02kWVUVkR2xH_8g6E&sa=X&ei=n2YuUIOsHaqx0QX604DoDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=theatre%20representation%20is%20finite%2C%20and%20leaves%20behind%20its%20actual%20presence%2C%20no%20traces%2C%20no%20object%20to%20carry%20off%2C%20it%20is%20neither%20a%20book%20nor%20a%20work%2C%20but%20an%20energy%2C%20and%20in%20this%20sense%20it%20is%20the%20only%20art%20of%20life.”&f=false

Motionbank:
http://motionbank.org/uber/context/


The Trace in Derrida and Levinas:
http://umontreal.academia.edu/BettinaBergo/Talks/62407/The_Trace_in_Derrida_and_Levinas

quote: 'Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy',

Diagrams are pre-articulations of thought in motion. they foreground the work's elastic points, it's tendencies. Like biograms, which express the virtual node through which a body becomes, they are nodal points around which the future of thought's exfoliation circulates. They make the elasticity of the almost felt, exfoliating the work's potential across its shifting surface. Diagrams move thought, inviting the conceptual escape of "the action of invisible forces of the body" (Deleuze 2003, p36) Diagrams rhythmically call forth the relation thought-expression.

Diagrams give value to thought in the making. Valuation orients thought, proposing it as a concept for future thinking. It is integral to the process of actual occasion taking form, but is felt as such only in the event's final satisfaction.  p.217 & 218

Manning, Erin & Horrigan, Bill 2009, 'Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy', MIT Press Ltd

quote: about bee language / Deleuze

"Benveniste denies that the bee has language, even though it has an organic coding process and even uses tropes. It has no language because it can communicate what it has seen but not transmit what has been communicated to it. A bee that has seen a food source can communicate the message to bees that did not see it, but a bee that has not seen it cannot transmit the message to others that did not see it.6 Language is not content to go from a first party to a second party, from one who has seen to one who has not, but necessarily goes from a second party to a third party, neither of whom has seen. It is in this sense that language is the transmission of the word as order-word, not the communication of a sign as information. Language is a map, not a tracing. But how can the order-word be a function coextensive with language  when the order, the command, seems tied to a restricted type of explicit proposition marked by the imperative?"

page 97 Deleuze and Guattari, A Thousand plateaus Capitalism and Schizophrenia