Handbook in Motion: An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and Its Manifestations in Dance

An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and its manifestations in Dance. Simone Forti is a dancer who has always forged her own path. She arrived in New York in the early 60's from California. She brought with her a series of pieces that proved to be of serious influence on the development of "post modern" dance and sculpture 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. The artist traces the development of her work intuitively rather than chronologically, including narratives about a time of participation in the drug culture that sheds light on the changes in her dancing. The book includes 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, and photographic records of performances.

Handbook in Motion: An Account of an Ongoing Personal Discourse and Its Manifestations in Dance (The Nova Scotia Series-Source Materials of the Contemporary Arts)

Arts & Photography

Forti, Simone

Performing Arts

New York University Press

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Wesleyan University Press

In 1975, Alison Knowles (born 1933), founding member of Fluxus, and experimental composer Annea Lockwood (born 1939) co-edited and self-published Womens Work, a magazine of text-based and instructional scores written by women primarily for music and dance performance. The magazine appeared in two issues between 1975 and 1978. This superb facsimile edition, comprising a book and poster housed in a printed folder, gathers the work from both issues, by artists Beth Anderson, Ruth Anderson, Jackie Apple, Barbara Benary, Sari Dienes, Bici Forbes, Simone Forti, Wendy Greenberg, Heidi Von Gunden, Fran oise Janicot, Christina Kubisch, Carol Law, Mary Lucier, Lisa Mikulchik, Pauline Oliveros, Takako Saito, Carolee Schneemann, Mieko Shiomi, Elaine Summers, Carole Weber, Ann Williams, Julie Winter and Marilyn Wood. This is an important reissue, collecting as it does works in a field whose "classics" are typically confined to male-dominated publications.

Womens Work

Anderson, Beth

Schneemann, Carolee

Greenberg, Wendy

Anderson, Ruth

Law, Carol

Oliveros, Pauline

Kubisch, Christina

Apple, Jackie

Benary, Barbara

Dienes, Sari

Forbes, Bici

Janicot, Françoise

Lucier, Mary

Mikulchik, Lisa

Saito, Takako

Shiomi, Mieko

Individual Artists

Primary Information

Oh, Tongue

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Beyond Baroque Foundation

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