Soft Is Fast

An innovative analysis of Simone Forti''s interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s “dance constructions” as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin.

Simone Forti''s art developed within the overlapping circles of New York City''s advanced visual art, dance, and music of the early 1960s. Her “dance constructions” and related works of the 1960s were important fo...