"Performance 2: Simone Forti" Performance Exhibition Series
The Museum of Modern Art
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The second and third installments of MoMA's new Performance Exhibition Series consist of live performances dedicated to early choreographic works by Simone Forti (American, b. Italy 1935) and Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)—two key figures of the 1960s minimalist dance movement who defined a new language of physical movement.
Simone Forti's dance constructions of 1961 are based on improvisation and chance. In Huddle, dancers gather in a tightly packed group, then take turns climbing over the mass, forming a living sculpture that moves through the gallery. Platforms is a dance construction and duet in which performers lie under wooden platforms and communicate by whistling. In Accompaniment for La Monte's "2 sounds" and La Monte's "2 sounds," a twelve-minute recording by Minimalist composer La Monte Young plays as a dancer stands in a large loop of rope suspended from the ceiling; a second person turns the dancer around and around until the rope is completely wound up, and then releases. The piece ends when the recording stops.
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Schedule
March 07, 2009 from 13:00 to 16:00
Saturday performances are hourly, starting from 12pm. Last performance is at 4pm. Sunday performances are hourly, starting from 12pm. Last performance is at 4pm.