Deadline for applications is Tuesday 18 February to attend our free art-writing course, in collaboration with Bergen Kunsthall and Office for Contemporary Art Norway. The positive impact of Postmodern dance on life expectancy has yet to be proven, but it certainly prolongs the stage life of its inventors.
In no other era have and year-old dancers been known still to go on global tours. Simone Forti was born in The two artists began their collaboration in , before Palestine released his first album, with a piece called Illuminations. Forti, fresh from her year-long Woodstock retreat, smoked a joint before each of the first three performances; from the fourth performance onwards, however, she danced straight. The piece became a series. Now, after numerous metamorphoses, it has been revived under the title Illlummminnnatttionnnsssss!!!!!!!
But Forti is still dancing. The performances differ, however, in regard to whether they are more strongly guided by the object or the task. In the case of Slant Board , for example, the object is a chipboard ramp angled at 45 degrees with knotted ropes attached to aid climbing. The task of the three performers is to traverse this sloping plane.
A board lies across a sawhorse in such a way that it can be used as a seesaw. The other man is told that, during the piece, he must tie the first man to the wall. But Vasilaki worked with gravity to multiply her body weight, while Virkkunen, rapt in concentration like a safebreaker, strove to bind her dance partner to the wall. Huddle is a temporal sculpture, and the only performance in the series not associated with an inanimate object.
In , it was performed on the High Line in New York. The number of performers may vary; in Salzburg there were seven, who intertwined to create a hummocky, modular form.
