Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955-1972.<\/p>\n
In August 1960, Anna Halprin taught an experimental workshop attended by Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (along with Trisha Brown and other soon-to-be important artists) on her dance deck on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco. Within two years, Forti\u2019s conceptually forceful Dance Constructions had premiered in Yoko Ono\u2019s loft and Rainer had cofounded the groundbreaking Judson Dance Theater. Radical Bodies reunites Halprin, Forti, and Rainer for the first time in more than fifty-five years.<\/p>\n
Dance was a fundamental part of the art world in the 1960s, the most volatile decade in American art, offering a radical image of bodily presence in a moment of revolutionary change. Halprin, Forti, and Rainer\u2014all with Jewish roots\u2014found themselves at the epicenter of this upheaval. Each, in her own tenacious, humorous, and critical way, created a radicalized vision for dance, dance making, and, ultimately, for music and the visual arts. Placing the body and performance at the center of debate, each developed corporeal languages and methodologies that continue to influence choreographers and visual artists around the world to the present day, enabling a critical practice that reinserts social and political issues into postmodern dance and art.<\/p>\n
Published in association with the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n
Exhibition dates:<\/p>\n
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara: January 17\u2013April 30, 2017<\/p>\n
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: May 24\u2013September 16, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Authors:<\/strong> Ninotchka Bennahum, Wendy Perron & Bruce Robertson Hardcover:<\/strong> 192 pages
\nPublisher:<\/strong> University of California Press (2016)<\/p>\n
\nLanguage:<\/strong> English
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