Radical Bodies

"...[an] attractive, large-format volume [that] gives props to 96-year-old Anna Halprin." * The Village Voice * "Through photos, objects and rare footage [featured in the book], the experiments on Ms. Halprin's deck are revealed to be crucial to the Judson revolution and so much that has happened since in New York postmodern dance." * New York Times * "The book significantly revisit[s] the body of the sixties as a living and breathing resource of inspiration, complexity, and revolution." * The Woman's Art Journal * "More than an exhibition catalogue, the text, populated by images of the exhibits artifacts, offers an absorptive record that celebrates Halprin, Forti, and Rainers historical oeuvres. While maintaining a critical, discursive perspective, especially in the three grounding essays by the books editors, the text additionally weaves together artist writings, critical reflection, and personal anecdotes by Forti, John Rockwell, and Morton Subotnick. These supplementary pieces invite the voices of the artist, critic, and collaborator, respectively, giving the book a diverse stylistic ethos that performatively addresses the intangible aspects of its subjects: the body, performance, and time-based materials." * The Drama Review * "This catalog brings new insights into the essential and world-changing new ideas on art making that these three women ignited and nurtured and continue to do soall three remain active in the dance world." * Journal of Dance Education * "The book is punctuated with visuals: performance photos, film stills, rehearsal notes, manuscripts, drawings, and improvisational scores. The visual organization asks its reader to engage with Halprin, Forti, and Rainers radical bodies through images of them in motion and written representations of their work." * PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art * "This catalog brings new insights into the essential and world-changing new ideas on art making that these three women ignited and nurtured and continue to do soall three remain active in the dance world." * Journal of Dance Education * "Radical Bodies and Judson Dance Theater raise a final relevant to intellectual history: how do we consider the ephemerality of the past? . . . The historical essays as well as the photographs, notebook pages, scores, and other archival sources richly documented in the book mean that while we cant go back again to the dancing bodies themselves, we can still activate the meanings left in their wake." * Society for US Intellectual History *

Ninotchka D. Bennahum is a professor of dance history/theory/performance studies in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Antonia Merce, La Argentina: Flamenco and the Spanish Avant Garde and Carmen: a Gypsy Geography. Wendy Perron, author of Through the Eyes of a Dancer, danced with Trisha Brown in the 1970s and choreographed more than forty works for her own group from the 1970s to the 1990s. Former longtime editor in chief of Dance Magazine, she now writes for Dance Europe and teaches at NYU Tisch School for the Arts. Bruce Robertson is a professor in the history of art and architectureand director of the Art, Design, & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. He has published books and curated exhibitions across a wide range of topics, from the sixteenth century to the present.