Simone Forti: The Bear in The Mirror - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3960983956 ISBN 13: 9783960983958

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2018

Synopsis

The Bear in the Mirror is a collection of stories, prose poems, drawings, photos, letters, notes and memories by Simone Forti (born 1935)--a founding figure of postwar American dance for those following in the wake of Merce Cunningham, who has transmitted her own legacy in part through several previous collections of writings (such as Handbook in Motion, 1974; Angel, 1978; and Oh Tongue, 2003).

The Bear in the Mirror delves into the stories of Forti's family, who fled their native Florence in 1938 to escape Mussolini's persecution of Jews and resettled in Los Angeles. Forti discusses the wool mills they once owned and the life they left behind, and takes us on a mesmerizing journey from 1938 to the present, from Italy through Occupied France to Holland, where the family boarded a boat to Los Angeles and Forti eventually commenced the career that has made her such a colossally influential figure.

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From the Back Cover

These sentences can be found in Simone Forti´s new publication "The Bear in the Mirror", a wonderful collection of stories, prose-poems, drawings, photos, letters, notes and memories. Simone Forti dives into the (his)stories of her family and of the woolen mills they once owned, trying to put all the myths and fragments of information into some kind of perspective. She takes us on a mind-provoking, mesmerizing journey through time and place, from December 1938 till the present moment, from Italy to Los Angeles. Along the journey we find ourselves in different cities and in the woods, where we meet her family, bears, dogs and spiders.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3960983956
• ISBN 13: 9783960983958
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 94
• Editor: Forti Simone, Gortzak Roos, Latimer Quinn