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In the 1950s, Yvonne Rainer, Simone Forti, and a handful of other young artists based in New York’s Greenwich Village set out to challenge the practices and principles of professionalized dance. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of choreographers Anna Halprin, Robert Dunn, and Merce Cunningham, as well as composer John Cage, they were determined to change what dance is and can be. In One Thing Follows Another, a boundary-crossing collection of ten experimental-poetic essays, poets Valerie Witte and Sarah Rosenthal explore the work of dancer-choreographers Rainer and Forti, both at various inflection points throughout their careers and in this particular moment. Through a combination of chance operations and intentional artistic choices that push the authors to unexpected places — including the zoo, the dance studio, the street corner — and via innovative forms and techniques, such as collage, erasure, and their own artistic inventions, they deconstruct the essay form to examine what they as poets, each with their own highly charged relationships to dance, can contribute to the conversation about these pivotal figures in postmodern performance art.
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Keywords
- collaborative poetics
- Dance
- poetic practice
- postmodern art
- Simone Forti
- thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6J Styles (IJ)::6JC Indie styles
- thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6P Styles (P)::6PD Postmodernism
- thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATQ Dance::ATQT Contemporary dance
- thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry::DCC Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards)
- Yvonne Rainer
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DOI: 10.53288/0486.1.00Editions