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 Rainerhad cofounded the groundbreaking Judson Dance Theater.
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.
Published in association with the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Exhibition dates:
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara: January 17每April 30, 2017
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: May 24每September 16, 2017
Events:
Pillowtalks, Jacob＊s Pillow, Becket, MA: July 1, 2017
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