Simone Forti An Evening of Dance Constructions (2009)

In the spring of 1961 Simone Forti presented a program titled Five Dance Constructions and Some Other Things in a concert series organized by her friend composer La Monte Young at the New York loft studio of Yoko Ono These radically new dances created circumstances for the performers direct nonstylistic actions Each of the pieces was performed in a different place in the loft with the audience moving from location to location to view them Some of the pieces required elementary structures a hanging rope rectangular wooden boxes which were placed throughout the loft like a sculptural installation In 2004 the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles invited Forti to recreate these dance constructions at the Geffen Contemporary space in conjunction with the exhibition A Minimalist Future Art as Object 1958 1986