Beschreibung:
An innovative analysis of Simone Forti's interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s "dance constructions” as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin.
Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1Part I The 1960s 1 The Natural and the Neutral: Simone Forti, Ann Halprin, and Margaret H'Doubler 152 Simone Forti in New York: John Cage and Robert Whitman 373 Scale: Simone Forti's Text Works in An Anthology of Chance Operations 634 The Dance Constructions, La Monte Young's Performance, and Slow Time 815 The Problem of the Personal 103Part II The 1960s and After6 Huddle: Inhabitation and Sociality 1257 Disoriented Perception: Simone Forti in the 1970s and Process Art 1498 News Animations and Improvisations: Movement-Feeling-Forms 171Epilogue: Performing then as Now 191Notes 199Index 243