From the exhibition Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done, running at the Museum of Modern Art through February 3: Simone Forti, “See Saw,” 1960. Performed at Reuben Gallery, New York, December 16–18, 1960. Performers: Yvonne Rainer and Robert Morris. (Rainer and Morris also worked on the piece in Yoko Ono’s Chambers Street Loft Series.) Photo courtesy Robert R. McElroy photographs of Happenings and early performance art, the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (2014.M.7).
By Chris Dohse
Copyright 2001, 2018 Chris Dohse
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