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In August 1960, Anna Halprin taught an experimental workshop attended by Simone Forti and Yvonne Rainer (along with Trisha Brown and other soon-to-be important artists) on her dance deck on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco. Within two years, Forti's conceptually forceful Dance Constructions had premiered in Yoko Ono's loft and Rainer had cofounded the groundbreaking Judson Dance Theater. Radical Bodies reunites Halprin, Forti, and Rainer for the first time inmore than fifty-five years. Dance was a fundamental part of the art world in the 1960s, the most volatile decade in American art, offering a radical image of bodily presence in a moment of revolutionary change. Halprin, Forti, and Rainer-all with Jewish roots-found themselves at the epicenter of this upheaval. Each, in her own tenacious, humorous, and critical way, created a radicalized vision for dance, dance making, and, ultimately, for music and the visual arts.Placing the body and performance at the center of debate, each developed corporeal languages and methodologies that continue to influence choreographers and visual artists around the world to the present day, enabling a critical practice that reinserts social and political issues into postmodern dance and art. Published in association with the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara. Exhibition dates: Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara: January 17-April 30, 2017 New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: May 24-September 16, 2017 Events: Pillowtalks, Jacob's Pillow, Becket, MA: July 1, 2017

The essays in The Living Dance: An Anthology of Essays on Movement and Culture explore the history of both eastern and western forms of dance, and emphasize important trends in contemporary theatrical and social performance. Each of the dances discussed brings into focus the vitality and richness of the cultures that produced them. Completely updated throughout, the 3rd edition of The Living Dance examines:Native American Dances of New MexicoMexican and New Mexican DancesDeep Song Dances of Gypsy BlacksmithsModernism in DanceAfrican American Influences on DanceDance in IndiaDance in FilmA Critical Appreciation of DancesThe Living Dance demonstrates how important the local knowledge of movement styles informs the essential understanding of how dance functions on many levels. Throughout the book, the reader witnesses the way dance responds to conquest, fusion, the advancement of subcultures, gender roles, fashions of clothing on the body while dancing, and to the survival of communities. Through the essays, numerous photographs, and reflection journal, the reader will learn the power of dance during their quest for mutual cross-cultural understanding.Featuring three new authors (Dawn Lille, Michelle Hayes, and Yasmine Jahanmir), The Living Dance provides a contemporary, critical, and feminist perspective to the history of dance.