RADICAL BODIES by Ninotchka Bennahum (Editor), Wendy Perron (Editor), Bruce Robertson (Editor) ( 9780520293366 )

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Title:

RADICAL BODIES
ANNA HALPRIN, SIMONE FORTI, AND YVONNE RAINER IN CALIFORNIA AND NEW YORK, 1955-1972

By:

Ninotchka Bennahum (Editor), Wendy Perron (Editor), Bruce Robertson (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0520293363

ISBN 13:

9780520293366

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS

Pub. date:

6 December, 2016

Pages:

192

Description:

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. This book tells their stories.

Synopsis:

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

Illustrations:

127 duotones (4 are details)

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Imprint:

University of California Press

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Returnable

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