William Forsythe dance work will be first live performance at Harvard’s Widener Library
Between them, dancers Jill Johnson and Christopher Roman have almost 50 years of work that was created by and with William Forsythe, their choreographer, teacher, mentor, and friend. Johnson, dance director for Theater, Dance & Media and artistic director of the Harvard Dance Project, and Roman, artistic director of the Dance On Ensemble, will perform a culmination of this shared well of knowledge when they present “Catalogue (First Edition)” for the Harvard community on Wednesday in the Widener Library Rotunda. The new Forsythe work, which premiered last fall in Germany, kicks off a two-day celebration of the choreographer and the discipline sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts. “As one grows as an artist and in life, one’s story is ever more complex,” said Johnson, who is also a senior lecturer in Theater, Dance & Music and the Department of Music. She described dancing “Catalogue (First Edition)” as “a state...