Simone Forti

Simone Forti
Forti in 2004
Born (1935-03-25) March 25, 1935 (age 89)
Florence, Italy
Nationality
  • American
  • Italian
OccupationArtist
Known forWork in Postmodern Dance
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    (m. 1955⁠–⁠1962)​
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    (m. 1962⁠–⁠1966)​
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    (m. 1974⁠–⁠1981)​

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.[1] 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.[2][3][4] Forti first apprenticed with Anna Halprin in the 1950s and has since worked alongside artists and composers Nam June Paik, Steve Paxton, La Monte Young, Trisha Brown, Charlemagne Palestine, Peter Van Riper, Dan Graham, Yoshi Wada, Robert Morris and others. Forti's published books include Handbook in Motion (1974, The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), Angel (1978, self-published), and Oh Tongue (2003, Beyond Baroque Foundation, ed. Fred Dewey),[1] reprinted by Nero Editions, Rome, in 2023, and New Book (2024), published by Nero Editions. She is currently represented by The Box L.A. in Los Angeles, CA,[5] and has works in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.[1]

  1. ^ a b c Megan Metcalf (2014). "Biography". In Sabine Breitwieser. Simone Forti: Thinking with the Body. University of Chicago Press. pp. 276–291. ISBN 978-3-7774-2278-7.
  2. ^ Yvonne Rainer (2014). "On Simone Forti". In Sabine Breitwieser. Simone Forti: Thinking with the Body. University of Chicago Press. pp. 70–71. ISBN 978-3-7774-2278-7.
  3. ^ Steve Paxton (2014). "The Emergence of Simone Forti". In Sabine Breitwieser. Simone Forti: Thinking with the Body. University of Chicago Press. pp. 59–61. ISBN 978-3-7774-2278-7.
  4. ^ The Judson Dance Project 1980-1982. Founding members of the Experimental Modern Dance Group active in New York City's Judson Church in the 1960s discuss their work. Includes archival footage of performances. Series of 7 videocassettes, VHS (New York, The Kitchen, 1983), v. 5.
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