Radical bodies
Subtitle: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955-1972
By: Ninotchka Bennahum, Wendy Perron, and Bruce Robertson ; with contributions from Simone Forti, John Rockwell, and Morton Subotnick
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780520293366
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Women dancers; Women choreographers; Postmodern dance
Description: 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's conceptually forceful Dance Constructions had premiered in Yoko Ono's loft and Rainer had cofounded the groundbreaking Judson Dance Theater. Radical Bodies reunites Halprin, Forti, and Rainer for the first time inmore than fifty-five years. 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-all with Jewish roots-found 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. Exhibition: Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, USA.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Radical Bodies: Anna Halperin, Simone Forti, and Yvonne Rainer in California and New York 1955-1972 organized by the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Jan. 14-Apr. 30, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ninotchka Bennahum and Bruce Robertson; title: Radical bodies : an overview / Wendy Perron, Ninotchka Bennahum, and Bruce Robertson; title: Anna Halprin's radical body in motion / Ninotchka Bennahum; title: Simone Forti : bodynatureartmovementbody / Wendy Perron; title: "Dance is hard to see" : Yvonne Rainer and the visual arts / Bruce Robertson; title: Letters from Forti to Halprin, 1960-1961 / Simone Forti; title: A collaborative community : Ann Halprin and her composers / John Rockwell; title: Working on Parades and changes / Morton Subotnick; title: You make me feel like a natural woman : my encounters with Yvonne, Simone, Anna, and Trisha / Wendy Perron.