Simone Forti
Simone Forti
Born in Florence, Italy, 1935
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
1970 - 1972 T’ai Chi Ch’uan under Dr. Marshall Ho’o, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1964 - 1965 Early Childhood Education, Bank Street College, New York, NY
1962 - 1965 BFA Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY
1960 - 1961 Dance Composition under Robert Dunn, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth, NY
1957 - 1958 BA Liberal Arts, San Francisco State College, San Francisco, CA
1955 - 1960 Dance, Halprin-Lathrop School, Anna Halprin Studio, San Francisco, CA
1953 - 1955 BA Liberal Arts, Reed College, Portland, OR
Grants, Awards & Honors
2019
Danspace Project Rebel Angels Gala Honoree
2018
New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for Lifetime Achievement in Dance
2015
Anonymous Was a Woman
2014
Movement Research Gala Honoree
2011
Yoko Ono Lennon Courage in the Arts Award
2008
CHIME (Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange) Grant
2005
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
2003
Los Angeles Dance Resource Center Lester Horton Award for Lifetime Achievement
1995
New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for Sustained Excellence
1991 - 1992
NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Individual Fellowship
1990, 1988, 1980, 1976
NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Choreographers Fellowship
1988
NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) Choreography Commission Grant
NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts), Choreography Grant
1985
Australian Council Theater Board Award
1983
NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Interdisciplinary Fellowship
1976
NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Special Projects Grant
NYSCA (New York State Council on the Arts) CAPS Grant
Exhibitions & Performances
Upcoming
2023
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles (January 15 – April 2, 2023) curated by Rebecca Lowery and Alex Sloane
2022
The Box, Los Angeles (April 16 – May 21, 2022)
An Other Pretty Autumn
2021
Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy (June 19 – August 29, 2021)
Senza Fretta, curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Elena Magini.
2019
ICA Milano, Milan, Italy (November 29 – February 2, 2020)
Vicino al Cuore (Close to the Heart), curated by Alberto Salvadori and Chiara Nuzzi.
Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel, Switzerland (May 17 – July 7) Simone Forti, curated by Ines Goldbach.
2018
Galleria Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy. (September 17 - November 22)
On An Iron Post. Solo exhibition.
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA. (July 15, 2018 - March 31, 2019)
3D: Double Vision. Exhibited 120º integral multiplex hologram, Striding Crawling (1975-1978).
Knulp Gallery, Sydney, Australia. (June 29 - July 29)
Stop the World from Spinning curated by Sean Kerr & Roman Mitch. Exhibited Onion Walk.
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. (June 9 - October 7)
MoMA at NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art curated by Samantha Friedman, Juliet Kinchin, Christian Rattemeyer, and Miranda Wallace. Exhibition of Dance Constructions, Huddle (1961).
WeisAcres, 537 Broadway, #3, New York, NY. (March 18)
An evening of experiments by Simone Forti and Cathy Weis. Presented by the Sundays on Broadway Spring series.
Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY. (March 12)
Jeremiah Day performance with a reading by Simone Forti.
Castelli Gallery, New York, NY. (February 9 - 11)
Simone Forti With Obstructions by Robert Morris. Performances with Robert Morris and discussion with Barbara Castelli.
The Box, Los Angeles, CA. (January 27 - March 24)
Time Smear solo exhibition. Exhibited seven integral multiplex holograms (1975-1978).
Reading Room, Melbourne, Australia. (January 24 - February 18)
Exhibited Onion Walk (1961) and News Animation rehearsal video (2004) as part of inaugural group exhibition.
The Box, Los Angeles, CA. (January 19-20)
Illuminations performance with Charlemagne Palestine. Co-hosted with 356 South Mission Road. In association with the Time Smear and CCORNUUOORPHANOSSCCOPIAEE AANORPHANSSHHORNOFFPLENTYYY.
2017
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA. (December 8)
Rematch performance with Carmela Hermann Dietrich, including a new interpretation of Dance Construction, See Saw.
Danspace/St.Mark's Church, New York, NY. (October 26 - 28)
Tea for Three performance and conversation improvisation with Yvonne Rainer and Steve Paxton.
Tanzfonds Erbe, Sophiensaele, Berlin, Germany (September 25 - October 1)
Martin Nachbar: Tierforme/L/N. Reproduction of performance Sleep Walkers / Zoo Mantras.
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Action!
The Luminary, St. Louis, MO
A Collection of Slow Events curated by Alexis Wilkinson.
Cathy Weis Studio, New York, NY
Performed News Animations as part of the Sundays on Broadway series. Also part of an evening of performances by K.J. Holmes and Daniel Lepkoff including a conversation with the artists moderated by Wendy Perron.
The Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College, New York, NY
Radical Bodies, an evening of dance performances by Forti, Anna Halprin, Yvonne Rainer and the UCSB Dance Company in conjunction with the exhibition Radical Bodies at the New York Library for the Performing Arts.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955—1972. Participated in conference and performed with Halprin and Rainer.
Centre Pompidou, Carre d’Art-Musee D’Art Contemporain, Nimes, France
A Different Way to Move: Minimalists, New York, 1960-1980. Taught workshops Herding, Over and Under, and Scramble as part of group exhibition.
Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY
EHF Collection: Fluxus Art, Concept Art, Mail Art
The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of News Animations as part of KCHUNG Radio program Performance Now.
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin, Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer in California and New York, 1955 - 1972
2016
ISCP, Brooklyn, NY
Performance of Sleep Walkers / Zoo Mantras and artist talk.
Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
Breather
Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Moved Bodies. Choreographies of Modernity and Museum of Rhythm.
The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Tea for Three with Steven Paxton and Yvonne Rainer.
The Main Museum of Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of On Movement and artist talk On the Spiritual and the Body as part of Performance Lessons: Suzanne Lacy Teaches Andrea Bowers Performance Art.
Ruler, Helsinki, Finland
The movement that didn’t have a dog and a stick around it
The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Read prose and poetry as part of Drifting Down the River Styx: A Poetic Walkabout during Barbara T. Smith exhibition Words, Sentences & Signs.
Fridman Gallery, New York, NY
9 Evenings + 50. Performance of Censor as part of exhibition.
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
sound move in association with Beethovenfest Bonn.
Phi Centre, Montreal, Canada
Performance of News Animations as part of Affinities, a series of performance evenings related to the exhibition Joan Jonas: From Far Away.
Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook, Culver City, CA
Performance of Huddle with high school students as part of a SASSAS public concert.
Bard Center for Curatorial Studies at the Hessel Museum of Art, New York, NY
objects are slow events
Vleeshal Markt, Middelburg, Netherlands
Here It Comes. Performance of Illuminations with Charlemagne Palestine as part of exhibition.
Electric Lodge, Venice, CA
Performance of Journey Dream Flower with Oguri.
The GYM / Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Workshops students performed Huddle and artist talk.
Vleeshal Markt and Vleeshal Zusterstraat, Middelburg, Netherlands
Here It Comes
Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy
66|16. Weekly performance of Censor as part of exhibition.
2015
Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL
Slant Board performance curated as part of the Loretta Howard Gallery exhibition Where Sculpture & Dance Meet: Minimalism from 1961 to 1979.
The Box, Los Angeles, CA
On An Iron Post. Performance of News Animations as part of exhibition.
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Setting Things in Motion: Collections in Dialogue
Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Movement. Performance of Slant Board, See Saw, and Huddle as part of exhibition.
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Singing performance as part of All The Instruments Agree: and exhibition or a concert.
Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
Where Sculpture & Dance Meet: Minimalism from 1961 to 1979. Performance of Slant Board as part of exhibition.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Performance of News Animations with Batyah Schachter in association with solo exhibition Here It Comes and group exhibition Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion.
Index, Stockholm, Sweden
Simone Forti: Here It Comes. Works and Collaborations.
Weld, Stockholm, Sweden
Performance evening Trio with Fred Dewey and Jeremiah Day in association with solo exhibition Here It Comes.
Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Performance of News Animations for opening of the exhibition Can’t Reach Me There.
Centre National de la Danse, Paris, France
Performance of Dance Constructions throughout the buildings.
Centre Pompidou, Paris France
Videodanse in association with the Nouveau Festival.
Electric Lodge, Venice, CA
Performance of Flowers and Vessel with Roxanne Steinberg and Oguri.
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Incognito benefit exhibition.
Museum of Contemporary Art at the Geffen, Los Angeles, CA
Presentation by workshop participants as part of the Louis Vuitton Young Arts Program for high school students.
Goethe Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Noise and the Possibility for a Future
Cathy Weis Studio, New York, NY
Screening of collaborative film with Jeremiah Day and Fred Dewey Nonfictions as part of the Sundays on Broadway screening series.
2014
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Performance of Slant Board taught by Tania Arias Winogradow as part of the exhibition The Event Sculpture.
Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Performance of Illlummminnnatttionnnssss!!!! under the Pyramide of the Louvre Museum with Charlemagne Palestine.
Hope Mohr Dance / Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, CA
Workshop and performance with Anna Halprin, Peiling Kao, and Hope Mohr as part of The Bridge Project 2014: Have We Come A Long Way, Baby?
Biel / Bienne 2014: Le Mouvement: Performing the City, Biel / Bienne, Switzerland
Huddle taught by Claire Filmon, performed thrice daily for 6 days.
356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
Another Cats Show
Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
Simone Forti: Thinking with the Body: A Retrospective in Motion
ALOUD / Mark Taper Auditorium/Los Angeles Central Library, Los Angeles, CA
Moving, Speaking, Watching: Talk and Dance Performance with Wendy Perron and Victoria Marks as part of the ALOUD lecture series. Performance of News Animation, panel discussion, and Handbook In Motion book signing.
Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), Santa Monica, CA
Nonfictions: Jeremiah Day / Simone Forti / Fred Dewey. Performance of News Animations with Jeremiah Day.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
Performance of illlummminnnatttionnnssss!!!!!!! with Charlemagne Palestine in association with the exhibition Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador of the New.
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Reina Sofia Museum) and La Casa Encendida (LCE), Madrid, Spain
Body Mind World: Movement and Language improvisation workshop at LCE, lecture, performance and workshop at Reina Sofia Museum.
Salt, Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey
Body Mind World improvisation workshop co-taught with Jeremiah Day and performance of News Animation with Jeremiah Day.
Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Icebergs with dancer Rae Shao-Lan and musician Tashi Wada.
2013
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
Performance of That Fish is Broke with Terrence Luke Johnson and Brennan Gerard.
W.H. Auden House, Kirchstetten, Austria
About the House: Silence Turned Into Objects
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Reina Sofia Museum), Madrid, Spain
1961: The Founding of the Expanding Arts
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Dancing with the Art World conference. Performance of Huddle by Forti’s UCLA class, conversation with Yvonne Rainer moderated by Julia Bryan-Wilson, performance of Nonsense with Terrence Luke Johnson.
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Performance of Huddle in Ei Arakawa’s Concrete Escort I, II, III, IV as part of the exhibition Gutai: Splendid Playground.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
Performance of King’s Fool (News Animations) as part of Performing Histories: Live Artworks Examining The Past.
Museum of Modern Art Antwerp (MHKA), Antwerp, Belgium
LONELY AT THE TOP: Moments on Moments
2012
Danspace/St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
Performance of That Fish is Broke with Terrence Luke Johnson and Brennan Gerard as part of PLATFORM 2012: Judson Now.
Taipei Beinnial 2012, Taipei, Taiwan
Exhibited Contact Quarterly prints and pages from Handbook in Motion.
Sao Paulo Bienale, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Performance of Huddle, Slant Board, and Hangers taught by Sarah Swenson.
The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Sounding
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
A Drawing Show curated by Dan Graham.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
Re.atc.feminism #2
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Move: Art and Dance Since the 1960s
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Participated in Yoko Ono’s Searching for the Fountain and the exhibition Grapefruit.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Explosion! Painting as Action
Made in L.A. 2012: Los Angeles Biennial – Los Angeles Municipal Gallery/Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Performances of News Animations with Batyah Schachter, Brennan Gerard and Fred Dewey.
Ellen de Brujne, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Exhibited video News Animation: Mad Brook Farm (1986) and Untitled Drawing (2012).
The High Line, New York, NY
Performance of Huddle and lecture.
Hauser & Wirth, London, UK
The Historical Box curated by Mara McCarthy. Performance of Hangers.
Errant Bodies, Berlin, Germany
On News Animations: Fred Dewey, Simone Forti, Jeremiah Day. Solo performance of News Animations, collaborative performance of Improvisation with Day, and a trio performance of Improvisation with Day and Dewey.
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Moments: A History of Performance in 10 Acts
Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Happenings: New York, 1958 - 1963
2011
Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
The Historical Box curated by Mara McCarthy. Performance of Hangers.
Roulette, New York, NY
Performance with Claire Filmon and Batyah Schachter. Reading from The Bear in the Mirror manuscript.
The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of the entire set of seven Dance Constructions: Huddle, See Saw, Slant Board, Hangers, Platforms, Accompaniment for La Monte's 2 sounds and La Monte's 2 sounds, Roller Boxes. Performed by members of Forti’s UCLA class.
Kunstsammlung, Dusseldorf, Germany
MOVE: Choreographing You - Art & Dance Since the 1960s. Performance of Huddle and Hangers.
Festival d'Avignon, Avignon, France
Participated in poster session of Boris Chamatz and improvisational performance with Philipp Gehmacher.
The Kitchen Center for Video Music and Dance, New York, NY
The View From A Volcano: The Kitchen’s SoHo Years, 1971 - 1985
Agitprop Gallery, San Diego, CA
Reading from manuscript The Bear in the Mirror and performance of News Animation.
Eye of the Storm Symposium, London, UK
Performance of News Animation and panel discussion.
Fitzroy Gallery, New York, NY
Shelf Ramp Wedge Bridge. Performance of Slant Board.
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
Proofs and Refutations
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
MOVE: Choreographing You - Art & Dance Since the 1960s exhibition. Performance of Huddle and Hangers.
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles CA
The Artist’s Museum. Performances of Sleepwalkers, Striding, Crawling, and News Animation with Claire Filmon.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
Re.atc.feminism #2
2010
Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY
Jeremiah Day/Simone Forti/Fred Dewey. Solo performance of News Animation and collaborative performance of News Animation with Jeremiah Day.
GoetheInstitut/Ludlow 38 Gallery, New York, NY
Jeremiah Day/Simone Forti/Fred Dewey
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Panel discussion and performances of Huddle and Hangers in association with the exhibition MOVE: Choreographing You - Art & Dance since the 1960s.
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria
This Sentence is Now Being Performed conference and workshop. Performance of Huddle.
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
MOVE: Choreographing You - Art & Dance since the 1960s
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Conversation Piece with The Sleeves.
Moorat Raphael Cultural Centre / Palazzo Zenobio, Venice, Italy
Performance of early Dance Constructions and News Animation.
The Living Currency (La Monnaie Vivante) / Hebbel am Ufer / Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Performance of Huddle.
Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), Santa Monica, CA
Incognito 2010
The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of News Animation and reading of published and recent writings in program shared with Jeremiah Day and Fred Dewey.
Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York, NY
Reading of published and new writings and performance of News Animation.
Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York, NY
Screening of Artpix video Simone Forti - an Evening of Dance Constructions and performance of Huddle.
2009
The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Work in a Range of Mediums. Performance of News Animation and Huddle.
The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of To Borrow Salt with The Sleeves, including Terrence Luke.
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Book launch of Jeremiah Day + Simone Forti published by Project Arts Center, Dublin. Performance with Jeremiah Day and talk by Fred Dewey.
Marsielle-Objectif-Danse, Marsielles, France
Solo performance and collaborative performance with Claire Filmon.
Santa Monica Museum of Art (SMMOA), Santa Monica, CA
Incognito 2009
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
Performance 2: Simone Forti. Performance of three Dance Constructions.
Los Angeles Improv Dance Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Taught Improvisation in Movement & Language workshop. Performed on two evenings.
2008
University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
Art / Tapes / 22
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
Participated in development and performance of Allan Kaprow’s 1959 18 Happenings in 6 parts.
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA): World Arts & Cultures/In The Garden, Los Angeles
Performance of Talking Dance with Carmela Hermann.
Project Arts Center, Dublin, Ireland
Simone Forti / Jeremiah Day “News Animations” / “No Words For You, Springfield”. Performances of News Animations and Open-Forum Duet with Jeremiah Day.
Galleria L’Attico, Rome, Italy
Solo performance.
Teatro Vascello, Rome, Italy
Taught workshop and performance with workshop participants.
2007
Unknown Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Turtles All The Way Down with The Sleeves.
2006
ZIP Festival, Orvieto, Italy
Taught one-week workshop, presented performance by workshop participants, and solo performance.
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
Performance of 101, adance/theater piece created and directed by Simone Forti in collaboration with Terence Luke Johnson, Sarah Swenson, and Douglas Wadle.
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
“Carmela Hermann & Lionel Popkin". Collaborative performance of Improvisation with Carmela Hermann.
Church in Ocean Park,Santa Monica, CA
Vox Dance Theatre Annual Fundraiser. Solo performance of Improvisation.
Los Angeles Dance Improv Festival/Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
Solo performance of Improvisation.
2005
Anatomy Riot at Zen Sushi, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of News Animation and solo performance of Improvisation.
Danspace/St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
Performance of Deep Feelers with Pauline Oliver's and the Brooklyn Adult Recorder Choir (BARC) as part of the Movement Research Festival 2005: Open Source.
Sentiers, Ales, France
Directed Circles of Moving, Speaking and Writing Project for dancers, writers and a geologist.
Ecole superieure d’art de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Conference, interview with art students, and public performance.
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Text: The Constitution performance with Carmela Hermann.
New Original Works (NOW) Festival/REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Unbuttoned Sleeves, a dance/theater piece created and directed by Simone in collaboration with Terence Luke Johnson, Sarah Swenson, and Douglas Wadle.
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
Choreographing Democracy. Collaborative performance of Improvisation with Carmela Hermann.
Glorya Kaufman Hall/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Dance Under Construction conference. Performed in site-specific work by Deborah Cohen.
Church in Ocean Park, Santa Monica, CA
Vox Dance Theatre Annual Fundraiser. Solo performance of Improvisation.
2004
Improvisation Festival 2004: Improvisation is Hard/Danspace/St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
Performed in Movement Research festival. Post-performance benefit honoring Simone Forti.
Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
Performance and reading from Oh, Tongue.
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of early works and News Animation improvisation.
Tanzimaugust Internationals Tanzfest, Berlin, Germany
Participated in three performances of improvisational dance.
Pole Sud Studios, Strasbourg, France
Dance and Narrative workshop and public performance at the Park on the Rhine River.
Festival des Deux Rives, Strasbourg, France
Improvisation performance in landscape with Sylvie Brucker.
Festival of Interactive Physics, Toronto, Canada
Performance with participants of two-week intensive Logomotion workshop.
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Text: Beyond Geometry in conjunction with the LACMA exhibition Beyond Geometry. Performance of early works Face Tunes and Asymmetry 222.
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Zoo Mantras, Cloths, and News Animation in two programs shared with Yvonne Rainer.
The Geffen Contemporary Museum of Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA
An Evening of Dance Constructions presented in association with the exhibition A Minimalist’s Future?
Musique et Danse en Bretagne, Rennes, France
Two-week intensive Logomotion workshop and performance with workshop participants.
Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA
Guest lecturer and performer.
Crazy Space at the 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA
Performance of News Animation, readings from Oh, Tongue and book signing.
Mark Taper Auditorium/L.A. Central Library, Los Angeles, CA
A Window on Movement and Language. Performance of News Animation and book signing for Oh, Tongue in a program shared with Carmela Hermann and Victoria Marks.
Faculty Festival of Performance/University of California Los Angeles (UCLA): World Arts & Cultures, Los Angeles, CA. February 27.
Performance of News Animation.
2003
Susan Hess Modern Dance Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Performance of Structured Improvisation with Eric Schoefer and Leah Stein.
Le Lazeret, Corsica, France
Performance with participants of two-week intensive Logomotion workshop.
Lisbon Biennial, Lisbon, Portugal
Experimenta Design 2003
Dance Hakushu/Min Tanaka Dance Festival, Tokyo, Japan
Performance with participants of one-week intensive Logomotion workshop.
Beyond Text Festival/Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Presentation of work developed in the Movement and Writing workshop, co-taught by Simone and Terrence Luke Johnson.
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Taught workshop and performed News Animation.
Le Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
Collaborative performance of Improvisation with Claire Filmon, Lionel Marchetti and Jérôme Noetinger.
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of News Animation and reading from Oh, Tongue in program shared with Carmela Hermann, Terrence Luke Johnson, and Dale Eunson.
Siteworks/Skirball Center, Los Angeles, CA
Improvisation performance in landscape.
Church in Ocean Park, Los Angeles, CA
Audience-interaction performance project animated by Simone, Terrence Luke Johnson, and Dale Eunson.
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland
Collaborative performance of Improvisation with Claire Filmon.
2002
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
War & Variations, a dance/theater piece with Simone, Terrence Luke Johnson, and Dale Eunson, based on childhood memories of World War II. Performed in Forti's Logomotion form, initiated and guided by Johnson.
Fondation Cartier-Les Soirćes Nomades, Paris, France
Oh, Langue, a structured improvisation piece with Claire Filmon, Karim Zabar, Said Si Mohammed, and Garrett List.
Fringe Festival: Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Waking the Forest (with Molimo) on flatbed truck parked on Hollywood Boulevard.
Electric Lodge/Max 10, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of News Animation in an evening shared with other artists.
Cleveland Museum of Art,Cleveland, OH
Performance of Huddle, Striding/Crawling (with recording of John Cage’s 1948 piano piece Dream), Scramble, as well as Animation and Waking the Forest (with Molimo). In conjunction with exhibition Into the Light: Projected Image from 1966-1974.
Bates Dance Festival/Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Be Orators. Audience-interaction performance project animated by Simone and Tom Young.
Bates Dance Festival Faculty Gala, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
Performance of News Animation and Waking the Forest (with Molimo).
Beyond Text Festival/Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Waking the Forest (with Molimo).
Schindler House: MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Striding/Crawling with Jim Tenny performing John Cage’s 1948 piano piece Dream.
Judy Ganz Studio, Los Angeles, CA
Be Orators, an audience-interaction performance project animated by Forti and Tom Young.
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Valencia, CA
Performance of Zoo Mantras with Jim Tenny performing John Cage’s 1948 piano piece Dream.
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Open Air Improvisation in program shared with other members of “5” group (Simone Forti, Jeremiah Day, Carmela Hermann, Lisa Bruno, Dana Hirsh).
Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain: Les Soirćes Nomades, Paris, France
Performance of Improvisation with Charlemagne Palestine and Huddle.
Meet The Parents: International Improvisation Festival/DanseSCENEN, Malmø, Sweden
Performance of Improvisation with Pierre Dørge.
2001
Danspace/St. Mark’s Church,New York, NY
Improvisational solo performance of Illuminations with recorded music by Charlemagne Palestine and Logomotion, a one-set solo and one-set with guest performer Danny Lepkoff.
Centre International de Formation en Arts du Spectacle, Brussels, Belgium
Performance with participants of two-week intensive Logomotion workshop.
Baryshnikov Productions/Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Guest performer in Study - an improvisation inspired by bears, flamingos and the paintings of Willem de Kooning, featuring Simone's early pieces Huddle and Scramble.
Now Festival/Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Guest performer in Study - an improvisation inspired by bears, flamingos and the paintings of Willem de Kooning. Curated by Carmela Hermann.
Sushi Performance & Visual Art and Lower Left, San Diego, CA
Logomotion improvisation in evening shared with other artists.
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA): World Arts & Cultures, Los Angeles, CA
Logomotion improvisation with Carmela Hermann as featured guest in Artists Alphabet Series.
Side Street Live Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Logomotion improvisation with Carmela Hermann.
Ivar Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Logomotion solo improvisation.
2000
Baryshnikov Productions/Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Logomotion improvisation. Guest performer in White Oak PastForward production featuring Simone's early pieces Huddle and Scramble.
Contradanse @ Parts, Brussels, Belgium
Improvisation with international dance-artists.
David Zambrano Invites/Stichting Nestheatres, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Improvisation with David Zambrano.
Centre National de la Danse, Paris, France
Performance with participants of two-week intensive Logomotion workshop.
Soundings/Mark Taper Auditorium at Los Angeles Central Library, Los Angeles, CA
Turtles All the Way Down, a structured improvisation with Simone, Carmela Hermann and Claire Filmon. Video projection by Pooh Kaye. Interlude with Forti, Hermann and Filmon (music: John Cage Sonata 1946). Larousse, with Forti, Hermann and Filmon, based on three random words from the French/English dictionary.
Links Hall, Chicago, IL
Performance with participants of two-week intensive Logomotion workshop. Performance of Jackdaw Songs as part of The Territory Between performance series.
Lower Left, San Diego, CA
Improvisational solo performance of Logomotion.
Painted Bride, Philadelphia, PA
Binding, a structured improvisation with Eric Schofer.
Zodiak/Helsinki Improvisation Festival, Helsinki, Denmark
Performance of Animations.
1999
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Collaborative performance of L.A., Logomotion with Carmela Hermann based on impressions of downtown L.A.
Castello di Rivoli Museum, Tourino, Italy
Performance of Illuminations with Charlemagne Palestine, Huddle, and Slant Board.
Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance and Improvisation, Seattle, WA
Collaborative performance of Logomotion with Carmela Hermann based on impressions of Seattle.
Fundacao Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
Performance of Illuminations with Charlemagne Palestine, Huddle, and Slant Board.
Cheminements ’99 European tour, Aachen, Germany; Maastricht and Roermond, Neatherlands; Togrenen and Liège, Belgium.
Structured improvisational piece directed by Simone with Hazel Carrie, Lieve Hermans, Concita Fernandez del Campo, Claire Filmon, Bettina Neuhaus, Pascal Queneau, and Véronique Delmelle.
Peter Van Riper Memorial/Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
Big Room, a structured improvisation with recorded music by Peter Van Riper.
Igniting the Edge/Women’s Caucus for the Arts/The Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Huddle.
1998
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Jackdaw Songs, News Animation, The Plant People, and a collaborative performance of Logomotion with Carmela Hermann.
On the Edge: Festival of Improvisation/Menagerie de Verre,Paris, France
Performance of News Animation in program shared with Steve Paxton and Lisa Nelson.
Available Space/Lower Left,San Diego, CA
Participated in An Evening of Improvisation.
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain/Les Soirées Nomades, Paris, France
Collaborative performance of Improvisation with Joëlle Leandre.
Theatre d’Alès en Cevennes, Alès, France
Full program of solo structured improvisations.
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Performance of Logomotion.
Beyond the Pink Performance Festival/Hollywood Methodist Church, Los Angeles, CA
Small Dance for Big Music with Charlemagne Palestine.
1997
Improvisation Festival/The Kitchen Center for Video Music and Dance, New York, NY
Solo performance with Wendell Beavers.
Kansas State University, Manhatten, KS
Performance with class participation.
Flynn Theater, Burlington, VT
Program shared with Polly Motley.
Contredanse, Brussels, Belgium
Performance with participants of two-week intensive Animations (Logomotion) workshop.
Tanzprojekte Koln, Cologne, Germany
Solo performance as part of Vexations performance evening.
Menagerie de Verre, Paris, France
Performance with David Zambrano, Jennifer Lacey and Joelle Léandre.
Intermedia Arts Festival/Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
Performance with Bruice Gremo.
Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
Logomotion performance.
Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
Performance in Robert Dunn Memorial.
Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Logomotion performance.
1996
A Cappela Motion Festival, Northampton, MA
Still Life with Framing Music performance in faculty concert with recorded music by Jon Gibson.
1995
The Kitchen Center for Video Music and Dance, New York, NY
Performance of Jackdaw Songs, Animations, and Still Life. Performed with Steve Paxton for the Improvisation/NY Festival.
A Cappela Motion Intensive/Smith College,Northampton, MA
Performance in faculty concert.
Fort Wayne Dance Collective, Fort Wayne, IN
Taught workshop and gave performance with workshop participants.
1994
Z.O.A. House, Tel Aviv, Israel
Performance.
Gerard Bechar Center, Jerusalem, Israel
Performance.
Center for New Dance Development/European Dance Development Center, Arnheim, Holland
Taught workshop and gave performance in faculty concert.
Sogetsu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Participated in Nam June Paik video opera.
Salle Patiño/City University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Solo performance of Animation.
International Improvisation Symposium/The Western Front. Vancouver, Canada
Taught workshop and gave performance.
Dancin’ City Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
Solo performance.
Engaging the Imagination: Festival of Improvisation/Footwork, San Francisco, CA
Logomotion workshop and performance with workshop participants.
Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
Performance with Lori Nagel and Jon Gibson.
1993
New York Improvisation Festival/Downtown Art Co, New York, NY
Performance with Movement Research.
Montreal Dance Exchange, Montreal, Canada
Performance with Kirstie Simpson and participation in conference. Taught Logomotion workshop.
Donaueshingen Festival, Donaueshingen, Germany
Participated in Nam June Paik video opera with Richard Teiltelbaum and Earl Howard.
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Performance with workshop participants.
Festival de Danza Postmoderna/Instituto Superior de Danza, Caracas, Venezuela
Taught two-week improvisation workshop and gave performance.
1992
Studio Area, Barcelona, Spai
Solo performance.
House of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Taught workshop and gave performance with workshop participants.
Alice Tully Hall/Lincoln Center, New York, NY
Performance of Huddle and Slant Board in Serious Fun! Megadance Series.
Sound Symposium, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Solo performance.
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale, NY
Participated in Nam June Paik video opera with Richard Teiltelbaum and Earl Howard.
P.S. 122, New York, NY
Performance of Animation.
1991
Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
Performance of To Be Continued by Forti and Troupe with music by John Gibson.
Warren Street Performance Loft, New York, NY
New Dance/Music 1991
Danspace/St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
Performance of To Be Continued by Forti and Troupe with music by John Gibson.
Festival de Danza Postmoderna/Instituto Superior de Danza, Caracas, Venezuela
Taught improvisation workshop. Performance with David Zambrano, Alexis Eupiere, and Donald Fleming.
Movement Research, New York, NY
Taught two Moving the Telling workshops. Performance with John Gibson.
1990
Footworks, San Francisco, CA
Performance with workshop participants.
Center for New Dance Development, Arnhem, Netherlands
Performance with workshop participants.
A Life in Dance/Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA
Performance and interview with Sally Banes in Talking Dance Project.
1989
Danspace/St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
Performance of Dive In.
Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY
Outdoor performance of Touch by Forti and Troupe with live music by Charlemagne Palestine.
Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
Performance with workshop participants.
Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
Performance with workshop participants.
American Dance Performance, Durham, NC
Performance with workshop participants.
National Museum of Dance, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Fugitive Gesture: Masterpieces of Dance Photography, 1849—Present.
The Theater School, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Performance with workshop participants.
Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, NY
News Animation and other performances.
Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Taught workshop and gave performance with workshop participants.
The State Street Center, Madison, WI
Taught workshop and gave performance with workshop participants.
Independent Performance Alliance of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Taught workshop and gave performance with workshop participants.
Allentown, PA
Improvisation performance with Lori Nagel.
1988
Spoke of the Hub, Brooklyn, NY
Performance.
Movement Research, New York, NY
Performance.
Boston University, Boston, MA
Two evenings of performance by Forti and Troupe. Taught intensive workshop.
Manitoga Nature Center, Garrison, NY
Forti and Troupe performance for NYFA public service.
Wallenboyd Theater, Los Angeles, CA
Performance.
Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
Taught workshop and gave performance with workshop participants.
Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY
Forti and Troupe performance of Green Mountain and solo performance of News Animation.
Boston Arts Group, Boston, MA
Taught workshop and gave performance with workshop participants.
Mad Brook Farm, East Charleston, VT
Forti and Troupe performance.
The Theater School, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Taught workshop and gave performance with workshop participants.
The Knitting Factory, New York, NY
Solo performance.
1987
St. John’s College Summer Workshop, Santa Fe, NM
Logomotion performance with David Rosenmiller based on impressions of environment.
American Dance Festival, Durham, NC
Performance of News Animation at the Faculty Concert.
Gowanus Dance Exchange, Brooklyn, NY
Forti and Troupe performance.
Roulette, New York, NY
Performance of News Animation and collaborative work with Takehisa Kosugi.
Movement Research Benefit/Triplex Theater II, New York, NY
Performance of News Animation.
P.S. 122, New York, NY
Performance of News Animation.
1986
Dancers Warehouse, Santa Barbara, CA
Performance of News Animation and performance with workshop participants.
Colby College, Waterville, MA
Forti and Troupe performance.
Ethnic Folk Arts Center/Movement Research, New York, NY
Forti and Troupe performance of Roadcut as part of The Presenting Series in a program shared with David Zambrano.
Yellow Springs Institute, Chester Springs, PA
Forti and Troupe performance of The Foothills.
Mad Brook Farm, East Charleston, VT
Performance of News Animation.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
Performance of News Animation and Full Moves. Taught intensive workshop and gave performance with workshop participants.
The Amphitheater/School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
First performance of News Animation as guest artist in SVA students’ concert.
The Theater School, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Performance with Lisa Nelson and Misha Mengelberg.
New York Open Center, New York, NY
Performance with Charles Morrow, Glen Velez, and Don Cherry.
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