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In her work, artist, choreographer, dancer, and writer Simone Forti channels the subversive elemental forces of freedom and spontaneity. Born in Florence in 1935, she soon afterward fled with her family to the United States to escape rising anti-Semitism. Very active in the 1960s scene in New York, she evaded easy categorization as one of the pioneers of American postmodern dance.It was in the late ’60s that Forti revived her relationship with Italy, thanks in part to the efforts of Fabio Sargentini, owner of Galleria L’Attico in Rome. In the exhibition “Distant Lands,” various expressive
What could be more endearing, for a Mauritian, than the dodo? This bird, which disappeared in the 17th century, has become over time the icon of the disappearance of species. It was only natural for me to want to include this ancestor of the pigeon in my bestiary. In my journey towards the imaginary, I took care to add trees of my creation in the background. While waiting for scientists to revive the dodos, I had fun offering them a framework where they can evolve without risk. Quoi de plus atta
Quoi de plus attachant, pour un Mauricien, que le dodo ? Cet oiseau disparu au 17e siècle est devenu avec le temps l’icône de la disparition des espèces. Il était tout naturel pour moi que de vouloir inclure dans mon bestiaire cet ancêtre du pigeon. Dans mon cheminement vers l’imaginaire, j’ai pris soin d’ajouter dans l’arrière-plan des arbres de ma confection. En attendant que des scientifiques fassent renaitre les dodos, je me suis amusé à leur offrir un cadre où ils pourront évoluer sans risq
I CONVINCED MYSELF that writing this was an opportunity to channel my inner Rhonda Lieberman—if only that were possible. Last week in Chicago, as I made my way through the early moments of the Renaissance Society’s 2023 “RenBen: TRU RENAISSANCE”—an annual fundraising affair masterminded by the storied institution’s chief curator and director, Myriam Ben Salah, and creative-directed this year by artist and choreographer Adam Linder—I sought out a scandal, but found none; I yearned for juicy gossip, but couldn’t manage to dig it up. I tried to provoke artist Piero Golia, who was in attendance as