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Co-published by New York University Press.
Product details:
Softcover, 152 pages, 70 bw, 6.5 x 8.75"
ISBN: 978-0-919616-03-5
Price: $19.95
Publication Date: 1974
An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and its manifestations in Dance.
Simone Forti is a dancer who has always forged her own path. She arrived in New York in the early 60's from California. She brought with her a series of pieces that proved to be of serious influence on the development of "post modern" dance and sculpture in years to come.
Her "dance-constructions" were based on a concern with bodies in action, the movement not being stylized or presented for its visual line but rather as a physical fact. The artist traces the development of her work intuitively rather than chronologically, including narratives about a time of participation in the drug culture that sheds light on the changes in her dancing. The book includes drawings, "dance reports" (short descriptions of events whose movement made a deep impression on the author's memory), and documentary materials such as scores, descriptions, and photographic records of performances.