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Tracing a period in her life from the 1969 Woodstock Festival through the following years living on the land, this singular dance artist's direct and poetic writings bring a turbulent transitional era to life. Arriving in New York in the early 1960s from California, she brought with her a series of pieces that proved to be a serious influence on the development of "post modern" dance 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. Combining 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, letters to colleagues, and photographic records of performances, her eye toward creating idioms for exploring natural forms and behaviors is evident throughout.
Simone Forti shifted from painting in 1955 to study dance with Anna Halprin and went on to study composition with Robert Dunn at the Merce Cunningham Studio leading to her association with Judson Dance Theater in the 1960s. Her work spans from early minimalist dance constructions, through animal movement studies, news animations, land portraits, and currently, Logomotion, an improvisational form based on the resonance between movement and the spoken word. She performs and teaches worldwide.
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The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1974
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Edition Not Stated. An account of an ongoing personal discourse and its manifestations in dance. Co-published by New York University Press. 1" tear to inside, front spine, taped over. Dust jacket in brodart. Inscription on paper taped to ffep with picture and date. Inscribed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 026106
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Scarce monograph from the inimitable pioneer of modern dance, Simone Forti. Dust jacket is lightly creased and soiled in parts, being well preserved in clear mylar. Original publisher's black cloth cover is in every good condition. Interior text and images are clean throughout. Binding solid. Seller Inventory # BS1230410027
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Simone Forti; Handbook in Motion: An account of an ongoing personal discourse and its manifestations in dance; The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax; co-published by New York University Press, New York, 1974. Printed and bound in Canada. This title was one of The Nova Scotia Series: Source Materials of the Contemporary Arts; eleven works in all. Simone Forti (born March 25, 1935) is an American postmodern artist, dancer, choreographer, and writer. Since the 1950s, she has exhibited, performed, and taught workshops all over the world. Her innovations in Postmodern dance, including her seminal 1961 body of work, Dance Constructions, along with her contribution to the early Fluxus movement, have influenced many notable dancers and artists. In 1972, the Press of the NSCAD University invited Forti to Halifax, Nova Scotia to write a book, as part of their collection, The Nova Scotia Series - Source Materials of the Contemporary Arts. Forti lived in Halifax for two years, from 1972 to 1974, writing and editing Handbook in Motion (1974). In Handbook, Forti describes several pivotal moments in her career up to that point and several of her pieces, including Herding, Face Tunes, Cloths, Fallers, and several Dance Construction pieces. The book also contains photographs, poems, and drawings, as well as copied pages from Forti's journals and notebooks and has been translated into French and has been published in 2nd and 3rd editions in English. This softcover book, 151 pages, is in near-fine condition. Seller Inventory # 2536
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Near Fine First Edition. 8vo. Published by the Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design & New York University Press, 1974. Black cloth with white titling to spine, bumping to head and foot, interior clean, tightly bound. Very Good + white illustrated dust jacket, some edgewear, almost undetectable sunning, protected in mylar. Rife with photographs, drawings, reproductions of journal entries in black-and-white, this is the first monograph on renowned contemporary New York dancer and choreographer, Simone Forti. 144 pp. Seller Inventory # 01096
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