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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. 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-April 30, 2017 New York Public Library for the
Performing Arts: May 24-September 16, 2017 Events: Pillowtalks,
Jacob's Pillow, Becket, MA: July 1, 2017
Through the Eyes of a Dancer compiles the writings of noted dance
critic and editor Wendy Perron. In pieces for The SoHo Weekly News,
Village Voice, The New York Times, and Dance Magazine, Perron limns
the larger aesthetic and theoretical shifts in the dance world
since the 1960s. She surveys a wide range of styles and genres,
from downtown experimental performance to ballets at the
Metropolitan Opera House. In opinion pieces, interviews, reviews,
brief memoirs, blog posts, and contemplations on the choreographic
process, she gives readers an up-close, personalized look at
dancing as an art form. Dancers, choreographers, teachers, college
dance students--and anyone interested in the intersection between
dance and journalism--will find Perron's probing and insightful
writings inspiring. Through the Eyes of a Dancer is a nuanced
microcosm of dance's recent globalization and modernization that
also provides an opportunity for new dancers to look back on the
traditions and styles that preceded their own.
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